Let me start off by explaining. My family never believed in vitamins, we aren't a big health-focused family so that shouldn't surprise anyone. After I aged out of those chewable flintstones vitamins, I didn't take anything else. I always did research into vitamins and what I should be taking, but nothing really ever pushed me to take them.

Fast forward to summer of 2016 when my skin wouldn't stop breaking out, my PMS became terrible to manage, I was getting abdominal cramping pretty frequently, and I was constantly alternating between different antibiotics because I couldn't get rid of my sinus infections. So yes, I was a mess.

Breaking Out and PMS.

I was finally fed up with it. I've been on birth control for three years, under the watch of a dermatologist since high school, I shouldn't be breaking out! Well, for whatever reason, my skin didn't want to calm down and I was getting desperate. After researching and researching and oh yeah, crying, I found evening primrose oil. Of course like most vitamins the research isn't fully solid yet, but I can tell you after taking a capsule of evening primrose oil every day (1,000-1,300 mg) for a month, my next period brought barely any PMS and my family was making comments about how good my skin was looking, how clear it was looking.

Abdominal Cramps and Antibiotics.

This was the fun one. Antibiotics do a lot to your body, and your body goes through a lot in order to handle them. My body did not like them. I doubt anyone's body likes them, but they get the job done. This job unfortunately also came with abdominal cramps, and everything fun antibiotics do to women's systems. Enter in probiotics, the only thing that helped relieve that discomfort while I finished the dosages. It helped prevent the antibiotics from fully throwing my body off wack and providing my systems with the good bacteria (which is still so gross to me but whatevs) which in turn meant I didn't feel completely terrible anymore while I was taking my prescriptions.