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Well, hello BlogHer, it has been about a billion years since I have posted here. Or even visited to be honest. Why the sudden random post today? Well, I have womenly things to rant about and it's not something I would post about on my main blog and I am generally a private, prudish person and do not like to get too personal on subjects like womenly things. But I have had this post bouncing around in my head for a couple of days and thought this might be a safe forum to blog about it because you're all women and women often have womenly issues.
So, here goes.
I am so bloody sick of menstruation. (Ha! No pun intended! Totally noticed that when I was proof reading this post).
I have always had issues with my monthly gift and it's what put me on birth control when I was 18 even though I was the most virginal girl you'd ever meet. Heck, I had Unicorns lining up outside my house ready to serenade me and the gods were thinking of adding a chapter to the Bible that said I out virgined Mary. I had no hope of a boyfriend on the horizon and even when I did find my first one at the age of 19 I was too shy to even hold his hand let alone contemplate anything further!
But I digress. To regulate hormones and whatnot I was put on The Pill. I have been on said pill for many, many moons although the type of pill has changed. I am now on Yasmine and it's working well for me so far.
The problem is with stress and other health issues, pill or no pill my menstruation will go out of whack and the past 6 months have been no different.
I have recently (in the last 10 months) been taking Amitriptyline for pain management. It's been a miraculous 20 mg a day of pain relief for some unknown auto-immune whatsit. (Currently under investigation, all major causes have been ruled out.) This pill has some odd side effects that have been beneficial to me - my over active bladder has calmed down, my insomnia has decreased and I can sleep almost through the night now (with only 2 or 3 waking periods) and my night terrors and night sweats are almost non-existant. They now only appear the week before my period and the week of and yet they are nowhere near as severe as they were.
But this has also messed up my period to the point that my regular clock-work start date has been pushed back (forward? Later!) and the length and flow have shortened to the point that last month I was terrified that I was pregnant and didn't know it!
(I wanted to SAVE not POST! Gah! New BlogHer buttons confuse me - this is not done yet if you're reading it now!) *kicks things* (Ok, NOW it's finished!)
Between being sick with a cold and then a really bad pain and swelling in my upper abdomen and worrying about pregnancy and my weirdly acting period I was a wreck last month. Ended up in the ER where they thought I had gall stones, turns out I don't and not only that the ultra sound put my mind to ease about the pregnancy thing. (I'd have been about 5 months pregnant and not known if it I WAS!) Once the panic subsided the pain did as well. Go, anxiety!
And of course when I was a teen, my periods always, ALWAYS fell on the hottest week of the year. I'd be throwing up from my migraine, doubled over in pain from the cramps and have the heaviest flow I'd ever had the hottest week of the summer.
Apparently this hasn't changed month. Whereas the last 5 months of my life have been blessed with one-two day periods with little to no fuss, I'm finally back on my clockwork schedule and although mother nature was kind enough to have the hottest week of the summer LAST week, it's still pretty darn hot and humid this week and I am off from work, at home, without air conditioning and a stupid heavy flow.
I am tired of how much this stupid womenly act can take up so much of my brain time and rule the way my life works once a month. I know get all PMS symptoms that I never used to get a week before my period. This generally means a week-long migraine, cramps, mood swings, bloating
