Showing posts with label symptoms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label symptoms. Show all posts

Monday, July 21, 2014

Start of a new cycle...38

I haven't posted in quite a while. I have been busy with a move and some family stuff and haven't had time or felt up to posting.

AF started last night. This is the worst cycle I have had since I was a teenager. It is very heavy and very painful. I am actually starting to become worried that I may have endometriosis. I had thought about it in the past because I have an Aunt that has it really bad but my cycles have not been painful or heavy since I was a teenager so I didn't worry too much about it. But this last cycle and the one before I had ovary pain a few days before AF arrived. I had thought that maybe it was a digestive issue since I have IBS and I had never had pain like that before a cycle but I had it again this cycle. Add into that the strangeness with this last cycle around ovulation and I start to worry.

Cycle 37 I had brown spotting all day, a heavy full feeling in my uterus and felt like my period was getting ready to start all day on CD 12.  I ended up ovulating on CD15 which was the earliest ever. I had thought maybe that was a good sign but it ended up not mattering after all.

I am still having pain all across my abdomen from ovary to ovary which has never happened before. I am going to start taking Pycnogenol soon. The research on it seems pretty great so I figure it is worth a try. I also restarted Evening Primrose Oil last cycle.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

AF arrived today and weight loss update

AF decided to show up today so that is the end of the 34th cycle. Now we are on to cycle 35. I am not sure how actively we will be trying this cycle. I think we may just not try and not prevent and try to focus on losing weight. I will still use OPKs just in case my cycle is delayed again. This cycle ended up being 5 days longer than normal.

I have lost almost 8 lbs so far which is great but I still need to lose almost 18 more. I finally got a new pair of tennis shoes so I am excited to try them out when my back finally heals. I really needed a new pair, I could not jog at all in my other ones without having really bad knee pain as soon as I started and even walking was starting to cause knee pain.