Can You Hear the Hormones...

...Cause He-re Th-ey Co-me!

It's CD 27. Day 6 of Lupron. AF is due any day now. I'm due to go in for baseline b/w & u/s on Friday as long as she shows by Thursday.

And I'm starting to loose control. Just a little bit.

The first almost week of Lupron has gone pretty well. I'm getting afternoon headaches, my stomach has been upset, and my sleep hasn't been great. But my mood has stayed pretty high through it all. It was a really busy week with deadlines, and alternate transportation schedules, but I survived. (even though I blogging/commenting did not make it to the top of the priority list. I did most of my reading on my phone on the bus, which does not create good commenting environment!)

I had acupuncture on Thursday night, which I'm sure is helping. Since I am going to a decent sized mind/body clinic for it, I have been seeing different people each time. I don't mind too much, because I am able to schedule appointments at very convenient times. L, who I've seen the most so far, had me stick out my tounge - as usual - to which she responded "how is your sleep?" It's amazing the things they determine from my tongue. She put some tiny pins on tape into my ears at the end of the session which she said could stay there 4-7 days, or until they bothered me, which were supposed to help with insomnia. The first night was not good, but this weekend, I slept great. I did take them out this morning though, because they were starting to get annoying. It's a little weird to be going around with pins taped into your ears!

Hubby and I went to upstate NY to visit my mom this weekend, spending most of it helping her with projects around the house, including getting her garage set up for a big neighborhood sale happening in a few weeks. (because she's mostly selling our stuff for us!) Some of it involved going through my old stuff in her basement. Which turned out to be a little bit to much to take in. I realized that I have an excessive amount of photo albums...at least 5 boxes full...in her garage and basement. And I found that to be overwhelming. Someday, I will have to deal with them. I started to feel snippy and emotional for no good reason at all.

I am definitely blaming it on the hormones.

So far though, despite the fact that I fear control is slipping away, and I'm feeling like I have a shorter fuse with my emotions, in general, I am still mostly feeling calm. I was able to not completely freak out about all of my belongings, and to tell Hubby and my mom that I'd had enough of the sorting and purging. I'm hoping that calm wins the battle. But those hormones, man...they play a good game.