And the results of the shiitake experiment are…. inconclusive. 
After taking shiitake for a week or so, I noticed I was hungry all the time, even just after eating. I realized I must be taking an appetite stimulant. Shiitake was the only thing I’d added to my supplements recently. So I stopped taking it, and sure enough my appetite went back to normal. So I have no idea if it would have regulated my menstrual cycle. I had to stop taking it. I hate being hungry all the time. Not a fan of that feeling.
Instead of shiitake I decided to take Vitamin D again, but this time I split the pill in half. I split a 1000 IU pill and took 500 IU a day, plus 400 IU that is in my multivitamin. I managed to avoid getting the Vitamin D tension headache. I still felt sleepy. Anyway, my period never started. Then I realized that a few days after quitting shiitake I started taking neem, because I thought I had swine flu symptoms and I wanted to kill them with everything. Neem is kind of like echinacea for fighting viruses, etc. But I read more about it and a few websites said it stops ovulation. It is used for birth control, I just didn’t know exactly how it worked. Anyway, that can’t be good for trying to regulate a cycle! So I stopped taking the neem. Still no period.
I’m wondering if the Vitamin D will work if I take it long enough. Now that I’ve got it down to a small enough dose to avoid the headache, maybe I can keep taking it and see if it regulates my cycle. I forgot to take it the last two days, though. I’m incorrigible. But I’ll get used to taking it. I’ll train myself to look in the pill splitter. I mean I usually just grab my bottles of vitamins and take one from each. But then there is the pill splitter with a half pill waiting for me. Hello, me!
I also think eating more protein may have helped me have my one lone period last June or whenever that was. I ordered my protein vegan foods, yes, even more than before. I have to get back to eating that way. Must lose weight, and must regulate the cycle. I want to feel healthy. Looove feeling healthy.
Maybe I should start taking strawberry leaf to jump start my period. It tones the uterus. Gets things in order in there. Maybe that could work? I have it in a tincture, though. It’s even harder to get myself to remember to take a tincture. (Harder than remembering to take a half a pill in the pill splitter!) For now I’ll stick with Vitamin D and getting back into high protein foods. Hey, maybe I need “high protein” because vegan foods don’t have complete proteins, and so I need more of it? To make complete proteins. Hmm…. whatever the reason, it seems to have a good effect on me, so I’ll keep doing it. And it would be good if I would actually start to exercise like I planned to. Pah! But that’s a whole other story.
‘Til next time. ~Me.
