Really? About the time you get things figured? It all changes.
Since March I've fallen into a fairly easy rhythm of understanding my cycle. Remember, it's hard for me because I have no uterus. A "low energy day" could mean a hormone dip, or it could mean that I'm actually getting sick. A day when I'm emotional and feeling paranoid could be a hormone dip, or it could be that I'm not paranoid because everyone really IS out to get me!
I've been lucky because my close friend tends to cycle along about the same time as me. She has migraines. When I have a couple migraines, she'll say "Well, it's about that time." Or when some other thing comes up, like a day of fuzzy thinking and sadness, she can say the same thing. And since she's not in the same stage I am with all this, her mind is clearer, so she can do the thinking and analyzing for me.
What has been interesting is noting that the length of time, number of symptoms, and their severity varies from month to month. And the amount of time between these dips varies a little too, although not as much as folks who go without a period for 8 weeks and then suddenly have 2 within 2 weeks of each other.
There are times when the low comes and lasts only half a day. Maybe just some fatigue. And then there are times like last week when the emotional stuff just gets so overwhelming and you feel like you are just absolutely useless...and it lasts several days.
This time I had all the terrible, overwhelming sadness and stress for about 5 days. Then it lifted, like someone coming along and yanking a black hood off my head. After a few hours of feeling pretty good, the migraine started to creep in. And some of the breast cysts started to fill fast and hard and get quite painful.
And so I'm moving through this hormone dip at a very slow pace, and seem to be racking up all the symptoms one right after the other.
I can say, however, that it helps that they aren't all here at once. If I had the 'graine, cyst pain, fatigue, depression...all at once? I'd probably be in a fetal position in my room right now instead of writing impassively about the whole mess.
There's a bright spot somewhere. You just gotta find it!
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It's mysterious. The crying.... sometimes for overwhelming sadness and other times for overwhelming joy. There is no way to know what would be next. You're definitely NOT alone. If you want to cry or a laugh at my expense, feel free to read some of the 'crying' tags! Perhaps it will make you feel better.
I do love checking in to see how you're doing.
Oh, and ummmm..... by the way, I've tagged you ;-)
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