Hi Girls
Just checking in. Day 15 today. I had been doing brilliantly, and feeling so much better, but days 13, 14 and 15 are typically crappy for me anyway, as my histamine tends to peak as my estrogen peaks, making me buzzy and shaky, so I guess that's to be expected as my own hormones are still tap dancing in the background.
Things to report:
- I had my NHS scan earlier this week, pretty much a month to the day since my private one. Good news, my endometrium is half as thick at 5mm this time, so that's good (also helped I had a really feminist, knowledgeable nurse, so she and I had a good rant about how crap women's meno care is)
- my appetite appears to be up, a bit like you get in PMT week when you want to hoover up carbs, I've gained a few pounds (about 4 or 5) but not sure if this is because I'm inadvertently eating more before I realised, or water retention or what
- for the last few days I've had that funny distorted body image thing where I feel I 'look fat' (not sure if you get this) which I really hate, I generally only get this two days before my period, I hope this is not a consequence of the hormones in the pill as it really messes with my mind.
- I've spotted almost every day since I started, so 15 days, worse today, and I have had low level pelvic pain which feelsl like proper period pain today, I hope this is just spotting due to settling on the pill and not a feature of it, as need less bleeding not more
Other than that, apart from the last two days I have felt so much better in myself and not had my usual shaking, buzzy, wired, vibrating feeling. I've been sleeping OK, other than night before last where I felt so buzzy that even though I slept I felt like I'd had no rest.
I assume it takes a while for the pill to shut down your own hormones, so I've currently got Qlaira and my own hormones coursing around my veins.
Weight gain - really hope to buggery it doesn't make me fat, really not sure I could handle that, as what with thyroid issues, I have to eat like a bird to maintain my weight as it is! Has this settled down for others?
Thanks ladies
Reb
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