Hey Birdy,
Honestly I'm doing pretty well. I mean, mentally I'm doing much better at the moment. Those few days of feeling like me was wonderful honest. I still had body aches, digestion issues, minor constant headache, chest pain, etc but I felt good. I think just mentally everything was good so the other stuff was minor annoyances.
Physically all the anxious feelings are coming back - internal shaking, heart palpitations, worse headache and just lack of motivation. Mentally I really do feel okay but after awhile the physical stuff wears me down and the health anxiety and such comes back. I'm really hoping to avoid that again.
I added gluten back into my diet and I don't think it's going well. Or it is all the junk I've been eating. But it is so nice having food cravings again! I'm enjoying food again and the weight is stable. But I can tell my body is not liking what I'm doing. But I still haven't stopped enjoying whatever I want to eat right now. I guess that stomach aches, even in early morning hours and not sleeping, aren't bad enough to make me eat better yet. Getting there though.
Found some old progesterone cream yesterday. Must still have a little bit of life left in it because not too long after using it last night, I felt the heart palpitations calm a bit, the bad headache I was dealing with all day eased, and just generally felt a bit better. That gives me hope for the new, stronger cream that is coming. I'm planning on starting with a very small amount and slowly building up. Then using it only as needed after that...just enough to ease symptoms is all I need. I'm so sensitive to hormone changes, I don't think it'll take too much.
How are you doing Birdy?