So tired I feel drugged
I have been bleeding for a week and a half now. I don’t see any end in sight, which means I will continue bleeding until I stop taking the pill, and then bleed some more. It is getting really. Freaking. Old. Adding to that frustration is my suspicion that AF is begging to be set loose in full. I’m thinking when I stop my birth control pills it will only take a day or two to hit, instead of my usual four. Which means stims would be moved up 2 days, which means so would retrieval, which means retrieval would happen on the weekend that Den absolutely cannot get out of work. You see the problem here. I might take a gamble and push BCP back another two days, just in case. In this case later is better than sooner.
Oh, and the weekend trip I was thinking would be perfect the weekend after transfer, before beta? Den found out today that’s the September weekend he has to work. I didn’t book anything, so it’s not a disaster, but all I can think about is going on this fabulous vacation and crying the entire time because my beta was negative. Lovely, yes? I am so full of sunshine today.
Heartburn. Why the hell am I getting heartburn the last two days? I have not heard of it as a side-effect of lupron, which is the only medication that is new. Cereal? Ice cream before bed? Experiments are needed. (If you have heard of heartburn as a side-effect of lupron, please let me know so I can blame it on that and return to my ice cream habit.)
It is Saturday. All I want to do is paint and work on my living room, but I have absolutely zero energy to do anything at all. By the time I get out of work Saturday afternoon I am just dead drained… I will hopefully sleep in a bit tomorrow to recharge myself. Then I can paint.
When it rains it pours…or at least that’s the way it seems. I am really sorry that your little weekend getaway won’t happen when you wanted it to…it sounded so very perfect.
Haven’t heard of heartburn as a Lupron side-effect, but I have heard that eating before lying down (whether or bed, a nap, sun tanning) can cause heartburn. Maybe you can just eat your ice-cream earlier?
Hope that today brings you the positive energy that you need to paint and feel good…Thinking of you…
I bled a lot while taking the pill this time, too. Light spotting that progressed into almost-period by the 3rd week or so.
It’s interesting but a little disturbing to see how clinics vary in their ways of doing things. Mine tells me to start stims 4 days after my last BCP, whether I have a period or not. Then again, I can’t really compare these details, because they haven’t had me use Lupron at all. Just 3-4 weeks of BCP followed by stims. Which puzzled me b/c it seems like every cycle I’ve read about online uses Lupron. I asked the education nurse at my clinic and she just said they feel they get better result w/o Lupron, plus it makes the cycles shorter (can’t argue with that part).
Sorry, going off on a tangent. I hope you found some energy to work on the living room! Random question, do you drink coffee? I’ve mostly made myself give it up, but have a sneaking suspicion that I’m torturing myself for absolutely no benefit, eggwise.
Sorry about the vacation timing :(