If you suffer with anovulation and aren't keen on the drug approach, alternative therapies may help.
If the thought of Clomid makes you cringe, you faint at the sight of needles or you just don't like the idea of surgery, you might like to try some alternative remedies to regulate your cycle.
You might like to start by making a checklist of things which are particularly stressful in your life, and seeing how many of those situations you can eliminate or reduce. Keeping a food diary will also establish whether your body is reacting adversely to what you eat. It will also enable you to see clearly the nutritional value of your diet and give you ideas for how you can improve it.
Foods such as soy and soy milks are great for inducing ovulation as they contain oestrogen which aids the process of ovulation.
Fertility supplements (multi-vitamin) tablets have been successful for some women.
Grapefruit juice is a womb stimulant so you could try drinking this every day.
Raspberry leaves tone the uterus and may possibly help you to ovulate (although there is no definite proof of this). It is available as a tea, or if you don't like the taste of the tea, you can buy it in tablet form.
If you think you ovulate some of the time, you can monitor your body temperature to see which month's you are ovulating. This can be done manually with a thermometer or an easier method is to use an ovulation test.
