Has anyone experienced a severe lack of AF? ?

[Mrs P]

Hi Smuggle and other gals,
You are SO not alone! I actually just logged on to have a giant whinge myself and saw your post!
I think I'm winning in the waiting-for-AF stakes - it's been since June 06 for me - not a race I want to be winning though... So I'm nearly at the 12 month mark. Ugh.

I've been so patient (well relatively) and in the last few months have been trying everything to get AF to return. I'm taking gross herbs from my naturopath 2 x a day, as well as a host of other supplements, plus I started acupuncture about 5 weeks ago. I actually was FULLY convinced that I ovulated about 2.5 weeks ago, and then was having major PMS symptoms (sore boobs, bad skin, grumpy etc) so I was completely sure that AF would arrive this week... and... NOTHING!!! ARGH!!! Oh and there's NO chance I'm preg.

I'm just so over this whole thing now. It's so incredibly frustrating. Why doesn't my body work???

Anyway you're definitely not alone - just have faith and eventually AF will return (though I think I've just about lost faith for myself now...).


ETA - my FS says I need FSH injections to make me ovulate - but we don't want to take that path until we actually want to fall preg (which is not right now as I'm still finishing uni this year) - but I just want my cycles to return naturally and don't like the idea of 'tricking' my body and becoming preg when maybe it's not ready for it...