Written by Melinda
Friday, May 16th, 2008
I started my period yesterday. I’ve been in a lousy mood and have cramps. While I did get my weight down,last night I was hungry at supper and had a nice portion (not huge, just a little more than normal) of my pastaLESS lasagna. Later I had a little bit of sugar free low carb chocolate ice cream and paid the piper for it! I have not had chocolate ice cream in months, and had about 1/8 cup. It made my stomach hurt so bad! It has done this on two other occasions, and you would think I would give up and say “it’s just one of those things that I cannot have.” But, I decided to give it another try. I am not sure if its something in the chocolate but I’ve used two brands and both did the same thing. Vanilla has never made me sick, although like I said, it’s something that I may have every few months in small portions.
While we’re on the subject of periods, I’ve been in a quandry. I was on the NuvaRing and have been wondering whether or not to get the Mirena IUD. This seemed like such a permanent birth control method, although it can be removed should I ever want to get pregnant. But I still haven’t made the decision: to have children or not. I never really wanted children, but now that I am getting older and my system is getting some cobwebs, it worries me that the window of opportunity might be closing. I’ve thought about children… about ten minutes a month when my hormones are going crazy. The rest of the time, I say “NO” to the thought of me with a child.
I woke up the night before last with my NuvaRing on top of my quilt at my chest! What?! How did it get from point A to point B? I have not a clue… so that pretty much made me decide to go ahead with the Mirena. I hope that it causes these cramps, moodiness, tearfulness, and other hormone crud to be resolved. The gyn thinks it is the best solution so I am trusting his medical judgment because at this point, I’m exhausted from the cycle…
So today is the day! I go in at 12:15 for the insertion of Mirena. I’m NOT looking forward to it because guess what I get to take as a pain prevention? Liquid Tylenol!? I know it’s going to hurt, and I have a very low tolerance to pain. If you don’t hear from me on the net all weekend, you know I’m probably conked out in bed with the cramps!
