Has anyone tried GNC fertility blend, or heard if it works?

Dunno, dunno, and dunno. Helpful, I know, I just didn't want to leave you with NO response. I would look up the b6 question, but I don't have my books with me.

Have you lost a significant amount of body fat? That's the main thing I'd be worried about with the running, otherwise, no problems.

Good luck!

If your BMI is really only 13, you are lucky if you are ovulating or even menstruating.

I'm sorry to say it, because you obviously trained really hard, (but at least you know you can do it and you can do it again, if you want) but you probably need more fat. Do some online research and maybe talk to a doctor of some sort, but I am under the impression that women need about 20% or more to have their weight not be a fertility issue.

Oh man, what fun I would have with food in the next few months if I was in your position!

Hm, I don't think BMI and body fat percentage are the same. As I understand it, BMI is ratio of weight to height - really muscular basketball players with very little fat on them will be considered "overweight" (or even "obese"!) by BMI standards. A BMI of below 20ish - I don't know the numbers well - is bad (and I'm not sure a BMI of 13 is compatable with life) but it is possible to have 10, 5, even 1-2 percent body fat.

That does seem a little low, however, although underweight issues are not my forte , but my rememberance is that less than 10% body fat could be problematical.

That said, a loss of that much fat in a fairly short time can do funky things to your cycle, definitely. With fat loss, you get a few issues - one, fat stores toxins and contaminents, so when you burn fat, you release whatever toxins they store. Second, fat plays a significant role in hormone production, so it could be that your hormones were in balance before the weight loss but need some time to adjust afterward.

Another problem with excessive exercise (not saying your exercise is excessive, just FYI) can be that too much energy is being burned - all your caloric intake has to go to matching your caloric output and there may not be enough left to attempt to support a pregnancy, so your cycles will stop or at least become irregular.

I dunno - I don't think you should freak out or stop exercising or start binging, but it may be a good idea to talk to a FAM-friendly nutritionist or general practitioner, just to get a professional take on this.

Found this on webmd when doing a search for B6 and fertility:

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Although I'm not sure I'd listen to her, because, once again, BMI doesn't calculate body fat (although it attempts to estimate it), and weight put on by muscle will cause a higher BMI. (Although she also says that acupuncture helps and candida harms, which I just love )

This is the link for that quote: http://www.webmd.com/content/chat_transcripts/1/103142

Here's what this site http://www.babysnark.com/ttc-supplem...lements.asp#b6 has to say about B6:

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I don't know how good this information is - I can't vouch for the site, I just found it via google.

Right .. you'd think I would have remembered that BMI and percent body fat are not actually the same thing, considering BMI tells me I am slightly overweight and a percent body fat measurement tells me I am normal.
Thanks, Arwyn.

In any case, 13% body fat is quite low, and I think you would be smart to get a professional opinion, especially since you recently went this low and are seeing for the first time that you are not ovulating regularly.

2-3 days including spotting? That's a little light, but length of flow isn't as good an indicator of reproductive health as is basal body temp and cervical fluid. Anovulatory bleeding (not a "true period" - which is only the bleeding after ovulation, technically) is often either very light or very heavy.

If you're not O'ing, there's a problem! From the little I know about you the first thing I'd investigate is the weight/exercise thing, but you're getting checked by an OB, who will be much better able to help you figure out what you can do to increase your fertility.

That sounds like an issue that a therapist could best help you with. Using exercise to stave off depression is one thing, getting depressed because of weight gain and exercising excessively to prevent that is a little different.

Again, I recommend you get to an OB/RE/nutritionist/someone to help you figure out if you need to cut back on exercise or eat more or what to get your cycles straightened out.

Whatever you do, I hope you get the help you need and the baby you want!