Fertility Alberta is a patient-led nonprofit pushing for public funding and employer coverage of fertility care.

Pelvic pain doesn't check your chart before it shows up. It doesn't care what your diagnosis is, whether you have one yet, or what gender you are. It arrives, and then you're doing the math about whether today is a "push through it" day or a "cancel everything" day.
Octavia makes one thing for that pain: a plant-based suppository called Ease Please, made for anyone who can use CBD products, any gender, for pelvic or general pain. It can be used vaginally or rectally. Each one contains 150mg of broad-spectrum CBD in a base of organic cocoa butter and vitamin E. Broad-spectrum means no THC, so there's no "high." They melt at body temperature, and Octavia suggests lying down for 20 to 30 minutes after insertion.
Octavia describes Ease Please as 100% plant-based and hormone-safe, with vegan botanicals and no synthetic ingredients, fillers, or endocrine-disruptive chemicals. In their words, they're clean, plant-based products designed to help manage your symptoms naturally.
Many of the people reaching for something like this are living with endometriosis, and Octavia's education speaks to that community directly. They frame endo as a whole-body inflammatory disease, not a "bad period," and they include ...

Carly Malo is myStoria's Head of Concierge. She has 2 decades of experience in direct nursing care, having worked in long-term care, sports medicine, practical nursing, and fertility/reproductive health.