18-02-2012, 04:18 PM
I agree with sfem, 4000mg is almost certainly too much, I dont think I've ever heard of anyone taking that much even as an experiment, and the fact that you got an immediate response followed by nothing suggests that you overloaded your system and the feedback mechanism which measures hormone level and regulates things, decided your levels were too high and just shut things down for a while - a stall in fact!
OTOH, 1000mg a day is generally reckoned to be about maintenance dose level, so that may not be enough to get things moving, although you were just being impatient a few weeks back!
I'd back right down to 1000mg for a few days ( or even stop altogether for 2 or 3 days) and then work yourself back up to 2000mg, and reserve the 3000mg for a couple of days a month.
I can't say I've ever had a hard skin problem, although my fingers have gone very dry, ( as in 'not sweaty', not dry and hard/flaky).
The denseness behind the nipples and the soreness sounds like budding to me and as sfem said, the timing of 2.5 months is about right. I've often reffered to the feeling as being like a bruise, myself, and as it's sub-cutaneous swelling its probably not far off the truth! No, it wont be blatantly obvious to anyone at this stage, and only you can decide when/if they are getting too big - at which point you drop down to 500/1000mg maintenance dose.
As for lactation, there is nothing you can do now and probably not for another 12 months or more... you need to grow some tissue before you can develop the milk production side and for that you will probably need to add progesterone and then stimulate prolactin levels to develop the milk ducts etc. Whether its actually a good idea, rather than a nice dream/fantasy, is another matter and one that has been discussed on here a number of times if you do a search.
OTOH, 1000mg a day is generally reckoned to be about maintenance dose level, so that may not be enough to get things moving, although you were just being impatient a few weeks back!
I'd back right down to 1000mg for a few days ( or even stop altogether for 2 or 3 days) and then work yourself back up to 2000mg, and reserve the 3000mg for a couple of days a month.
I can't say I've ever had a hard skin problem, although my fingers have gone very dry, ( as in 'not sweaty', not dry and hard/flaky).
The denseness behind the nipples and the soreness sounds like budding to me and as sfem said, the timing of 2.5 months is about right. I've often reffered to the feeling as being like a bruise, myself, and as it's sub-cutaneous swelling its probably not far off the truth! No, it wont be blatantly obvious to anyone at this stage, and only you can decide when/if they are getting too big - at which point you drop down to 500/1000mg maintenance dose.
As for lactation, there is nothing you can do now and probably not for another 12 months or more... you need to grow some tissue before you can develop the milk production side and for that you will probably need to add progesterone and then stimulate prolactin levels to develop the milk ducts etc. Whether its actually a good idea, rather than a nice dream/fantasy, is another matter and one that has been discussed on here a number of times if you do a search.