OB-GYN launches era ache complement with $300K raised

In line with Margo Harrison, the 1911 invention of Midol used to be the remaining time a brand new era ache product hit the marketplace.

That used to be till remaining week, when her corporate, Wave Bye, introduced its line of dietary supplements to advertise cycle regularity and assist curb bleeding and cramps.

“(Ladies) don’t seem to be seeking to be superhuman,” the OB-GYN mentioned. “They only wish to really feel commonplace.”

Wave Bye, which Harrison based in 2023, sells a “spine” day by day complement known as Bye Irregularity to make classes extra predictable. The ones are meant to regard a number of signs, together with attainable migraines, fatigue and irritability that come from premenstrual syndrome.

As soon as you recognize your agenda, the corporate’s period-specific merchandise, known as Bye Cramps and Bye Unhealthy Cramps, are more practical, she mentioned.  They save you messengers from telling the uterus to contract and bleed, she added.

“You wish to have to take the complement each day to control your cycle, after which what differentiates our (different) merchandise is that they wish to be taken two days prior to bleeding,” Harrison defined. “Should you block signs two days prior to, you completely alternate the era revel in.”

Different drugs and therapies are sparse, Harrison mentioned.

Even though ladies will use Midol and Tylenol for aid, the ones drugs goal the mind slightly than the uterus without delay, she mentioned. There also are gummies in the marketplace for PMS, however she added that there’s not anything like Wave Bye’s two-pronged, premenstrual assault on irregularity and era ache the use of its Nutrition E-based product.

Heating pads and aid patches handiest do such a lot, too, Harrison added. She hopes that Wave Bye could be a extra encompassing way to the menstruation downside about 1/2 the inhabitants manages for many years in their lives.

The corporate sells the goods in 4 bundles — every for various severities of signs – on its site. They price between $70 and $80 on a per thirty days subscription, with one-time purchases and three-month and 12-month packs additionally to be had.

Harrison may be in negotiations to promote Wave Bye at yoga studios and well being stores together with Bridget’s Botanicals in Littleton. The corporate additionally provides income sharing or bargain alternatives for well being care pros reminiscent of OB-GYNs and nurses.

“There’s no take pleasure in bleeding simply to bleed. Should you reduce your hand, are you meant to only let it stay bleeding? You’re now not getting any take pleasure in now not turning off the tap,” Harrison mentioned. “It’s now not essentially dangerous – it’s intended to fortify a being pregnant. However we wish to scale back era ache and bleeding and make that era revel in higher so as to give other folks their time again.”

Harrison used to be a scientific researcher at Columbia College and the College of Colorado Anschutz, that specialize in being pregnant in deficient international locations. She then went to seek the advice of VC-backed ladies’s well being companies 3 years in the past.

Via that and her paintings as an abortion supplier for Deliberate Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains during the last two-and-a-half years, she noticed the will for Wave Bye.

“I’d have sufferers sit down up from an abortion and listen to them say, ‘Smartly, a minimum of that used to be much less painful than my era,’” she mentioned. “Other people get gaslit, and the OB-GYNs don’t take care of era ache till it’s in point of fact profound. It appears like there’s this hole. They only do what their mothers or buddies or group are doing.”

Wave Bye has up to now raised $300,000 out of what Harrison hopes is an $875,000 spherical. Maximum of this is angel investment, she mentioned, together with one Denver-area institutional investor. She hopes to near the spherical within the subsequent couple of months.

The cash will most commonly be used to broaden some other product, which Harrison mentioned will most likely take a minimum of two years, and proceed paintings on a yet-to-be-released app to assist customers agenda their doses.