Progesterone

I have been on supplemental progesterone nearly continuously for 2 years. Never has it kicked my butt the way it is doing it now. I have done prometrium mostly orally over that time, but this year it's been off and on, and mostly vaginal, plus the PIO after my IVF.

Now I am on 200mg prometrium orally 3 times a day. About an hour after a dose I get flakey and feel kind of buzzed. This is not very convenient for work, as you can imagine. I've tried eating with it and exercising afterward, which doesn't help much, so I have to time my doses for when I won't be with my clients.

And I am sleeping so much. Today, a day off, I napped -- after 10 hours of sleep and waking up at 9 AM!

In my loopy state yesterday evening, I managed to convince myself it was affecting me this way because I MUST be pregnant. So I drew my own blood (1st time I've done that -- made much easier I'm sure by my partially buzzed state), and did a qualitative blood test (like a urine test - yes or no). It's 11dpo, and the test said no at 5 minutes. At 10 minutes there may have been the faintest line, but that's beyond the timing of the test, so should be disregarded. The negative made me depressed, and now I am kicking myself for testing. I should've just enjoyed my pregnancy fantasy.

The one consulation I have about my loopiness, is that I know if one of my clients goes into labor, I will snap out of it from the adrenaline rush. That happened the other night, and it wasn't a problem at all. Whew!


Today I am grateful for:
* a cozy fire on a rainy day, with the leisure to enjoy it!

What I am doing today to take care of mysef:
* read for hours by the fire.
* letting my voicemail take the phone calls and only returning the calls I want to. :-)