Maybe that’s it!
Drugs confuse me. So glad I never became a nurse or doctor.
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Also a metformin brand name. 
My first doc may have called it that 
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Yeah I’d be pretty surprised if it isn’t metformin! Since that’s first line and by far the most studied. And I don’t think any of the other agents are known for giving the shits if you eat the offending stuff or start at too high a dose. But, not my practice specialty.
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Yep, just got the update in my chart, it’s metformin.
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Summary
Prenatal
DHA/EPA
Zyrtec
Metformin
Melatonin (often)
D3 gummy
Inositol = 4capsules 4x/day (includes D3) OR 1scoop mysterious powder 2x/day
After ovu:
Progestin
Zinc
(thanks endo 
)
On period:
3x advils 5x a day or something (I was ok’ed for extra ibuprofen)
I am a mostly healthy person who eats vegetables and sometimes goes outside I swear.
Lifehack: my sis puts meds in glass bottles with stoppers like potions and it’s super cool. I don’t do it but I admire it immensely.
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Oh I forgot choline! Mostly because doc recommended it and my prenatal doesn’t have it.
That’s so manyyyyy
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Wow! Does the prenatal not have C and D? Surprising!! Bodies maaaan
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I recently got a weekly pill case and it does indeed help me remember. Def recommend!
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They usually have small amounts. I also take D separately but that’s about it.
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I am trying to figure out the logistics of this would help me. I feel like I would just go “did I already take my pills or did I just forget to refill the potion bottle?”
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It does, but I have a D deficiency and was told to take extra C to improve my luteal phase length.
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They make really pretty ones!
I have an old school one like this, that I got before my anti-plastic kick but if I had it to do over, like if mine break, I’m probably gonna get something like that
I take so many supplements that I use every slot in my 28-slot one, filling it up once per week. I use two slots each morning, one at dinner, and one before bed.
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If it helps more than the organizers, they also make pill bottle caps that tell you how long it’s been since you last opened the bottle. I know especially for ADHD those tend to be the recommended ones because then if you zone back in while holding it you know if you either just took it or were just about to take it.
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This doesn’t work well for some of the pills that gm and I both take.
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Sigh. I’ve been infertile long enough that I fully completed yet another study (a full year of follow ups) At least I get to help science.
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I realized I have a 3d printer and if I can make it go again, I can just print my own pill case.
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So I don’t think I knew that progesterone supplements with pills was an option! Can I ask if you’re taking it for luteal phase length? I had assumed that I’d have to do the shots if I needed to do it.
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I’d been taking progesterone “inserts” starting at 8 DPO. (The insertion is into the vagina.) I am skipping them this cycle though so I have a natural baseline for any testing the RE wants to do in the coming month.
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In my trundling around the internet looking at autoimmune information, I was reading something yesterday about the positive effects of fasting on autoimmune stuff due to reduction of inflammation and wondering if, since I’m dealing with multiple autoimmune symptoms, trying out intermittent fasting might be good for my overall inflammation and therefore also fertility (in terms of egg quality and embryo implantation). I’ve also read that it stabilizes blood sugar and helps repair DNA. It seems from what I’ve read like the data is mixed on its effects on overall fertility, though, like it might mess around with female hormones and affect the cycle.
So I’m wondering—IVF induces a fake cycle, right, with meds that are basically hormones? So maybe I could get the good effects of the intermittent fasting and not worry about the effects on female hormones, since all of that will be happening artificially?
Food Specifics
It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch from what I’m already doing to have 14 hours where I’m not eating—all it would really require is that I cut out my after-dinner snack, which I sometimes do anyway. I generally don’t feel like eating till after 10 a.m. as it is. It would mean making sure that I finish dinner before 8:30, which usually happens anyway, and then eat my first meal in the morning around 10:30, which also usually happens anyway. Currently, if I eat dinner between 6:30 and 7:30 I seem to get a little hungry shortly before bedtime (11:00-11:30) and have been eating a little healthy snack, like half an apple or some allulose-sweetened yogurt with lemon juice, just to take away the rumblings. But I think I could easily skip that. Hunger doesn’t generally keep me awake. It’d be a small sacrifice (a snackrifice??) if it had positive effects on my health. And I already do breakfast (small), lunch (medium-sized), dinner (big and satisfying), a pre-exercise smoothie for energy, and usually one more healthy snack somewhere else in there, so it’s not like I don’t eat plenty of food in plenty of instances. And I’m clearly not anywhere near underweight, where stuffing as much food in as possible would be required.
Does anyone have any insight into this topic?
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Yayayyaay!
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