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To start with, I'm semi-crunchy (just for background). I have three amazing little girls 6 years and under at the time of this review. I've had three c-sections and I have Pelvic Adhesion Disease. Fellas, you don't need to read any further unless you're into the sordid details of Aunt Flo. I've suffered from horribly heavy periods for the past year or so. You know those super-long-only-good-for-overnight pads? Yeah, I'd fill one of those front to back and side to side in an hour or less, day or night, for the first 3 days of my period. My husband and I decided to try hormonal birth control pills at the recommendation of my OB/GYN (we use natural family planning, so this was a switch for us). It worked great for the bleeding, but it wreaked havoc on my (until then undiagnosed) depression. Also, I'm not a huge fan of putting synthetic hormones or chemicals in my body if I don't have to. Fast forward a couple of months, and a fellow member of a crunchy momma group on Facebook told me she suffered from the same issue and her holistic OB recommended Red Raspberry Leaf supplements. I figured the least that could happen is it wouldn't work, right? What did I have to lose? I took the supplement as directed - one capsule twice daily. The flavor: like eating grass. No joke. But it's nothing that a little water can't wash out of your mouth. At least I knew it was fresher than not, right? And who doesn't love the aroma of fresh grass in the dead of winter? Anyway, I took these babies for two months. And those two months' periods were TERRIBLE. SO MUCH bleeding. And tissue. So much tissue passage. It was absolutely disgusting. I literally couldn't go anywhere for the first two or three days of my period for those months - gushes (beyond disgusting, I know) and the subsequent massive leaks were a regular occurrence. I had been warned this might happen as the red raspberry leaves basically cause one's uterus to completely shed its lining (like what's supposed to happen during a normal period) and rebuilds it from the ground up. Think of it as a seriously intense spring cleaning of your internal lady parts. We're now three months on, and my periods are actually lighter than they've EVER been. Like, in my entire life. It's definitely taking some getting used to (in a good way). But, ladies, this stuff works miracles. I now can probably use one of those super-long-only-good-for-overnight pads over an entire day on the heaviest days of my period and not fill it. So will these magical little capsules change your life? Possibly not. But they're worth every second of the two months' worth of nastiness they bring on. And they will definitely change your QUALITY of life.