Lactating?!

You aren't utd? Did you BF your daughter? I take it you aren't BFing anymore but I've read and heard it can take anywhere from days to weeks to months for milk to dry up!

It can take years for the milk to fully dry up after breastfeeding. Some women can still get some out after a long time having been weaned.


However, it's also a sign of high prolactin levels in some women (and men) that they start lactating. Did your Dr check your prolactin levels? I had high prolactin levels several years ago (caused by a medication I was on) and my periods stopped. Wasn't until we worked out it was the medication I was on, and changed it, that they restarted on their own.


You can also start leaking/producing milk if you are pregnant.

Edited by ooligator

Just a note, it's not good to take Vitex and clomid together, they will work against each other, and cancel each other out. I was on Vitex until I started clomid, then I stopped the Vitex, and at the moment am just using clomid.

If prolactin isn't one of the ones checked, it needs to be, especially with the milk discharge.

The reason that vitex and clomid don't work well together is in the way they work individually.

Vitex works by acting on the hypothalamus, which signals the pituitary to increase production of LH while mildly inhibiting FSH release.

Clomid works by acting on the estrogen receptor sites at the hypothalamic level, which causes increased production of LH and FSH.

So the Clomid is increasing your FSH while the Vitex is reducing it, so they counter each other.

In general most people do one or the other. I'm sure, as with anything, there are cases of women who have combined both and had successful outcomes, but most medical professionals (and herbalists) don't advise using both together.