Cycle stuff
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marydellI spent a year taking the mini-pill to help with my cramps. It helped a tiny bit, but it had a lot of bad side effects, and it shortened my cycle from 4 weeks to 3. Which means that the total cumulative cramps, viewed on an annual basis, increased by some number I won't bother to calculate.
When I went off the minipill, my cycle stayed at 3 weeks, DAMNIT. Not helpful. Flexiril has helped with the pain, but sheesh. So I should be delighted that this month* it's stretched a bit, to 24 days instead of 21. Maybe I'm creeping back toward my natural 27 days. Yay!
Except. What it really means is that I just spent 3 days hoping I might possibly be pregnant, even though I knew perfectly well I wasn't...and now I know for sure. We stopped trying years ago, and I mostly stopped thinking about it, except at times like these when Mother Nature decides it's time to fuck with me some more. And I couldn't talk to my husband about it while I waited, because he gets his hopes up twice as high as I do, and crashes twice as hard, so I did the kind thing and spared him.
Trying to focus on the positive, as usual: woo! 24 days! And it's the weekend, so I won't miss work this time. Woo!
*not really a month, obviously, but I still think of it that way
When I went off the minipill, my cycle stayed at 3 weeks, DAMNIT. Not helpful. Flexiril has helped with the pain, but sheesh. So I should be delighted that this month* it's stretched a bit, to 24 days instead of 21. Maybe I'm creeping back toward my natural 27 days. Yay!
Except. What it really means is that I just spent 3 days hoping I might possibly be pregnant, even though I knew perfectly well I wasn't...and now I know for sure. We stopped trying years ago, and I mostly stopped thinking about it, except at times like these when Mother Nature decides it's time to fuck with me some more. And I couldn't talk to my husband about it while I waited, because he gets his hopes up twice as high as I do, and crashes twice as hard, so I did the kind thing and spared him.
Trying to focus on the positive, as usual: woo! 24 days! And it's the weekend, so I won't miss work this time. Woo!
*not really a month, obviously, but I still think of it that way
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Date: 2008-06-08 01:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-08 01:16 pm (UTC)My cycle was completely irregular--anywhere from 4 weeks to 12 weeks, usually around 5-6 weeks. BC pills sorted it, but other side effects made that a short-lived experiment. Later, a different kind of hormone pills finally reset it to 4-5 weeks. For about four years, then perimenopause made it go crazy again--anywhere from 2 weeks to 7 weeks, and it tended to stop and start again for about 10 days. Yuck.
(Yeah, I know, TMI. :)