Day 27

Good Morning. I don't feel like getting up and going ALL the way to the refrigerator to get the vial of meds and then walking all the way to where I keep the needles so that I can give myself the shot around 9 am. Well it's not that bad, but I'd rather be sleeping. Whininess as a side effect? I dunno. As to other side effects .... "Breast Tenderness" yes very much. But it's also day 27, and that's just a standard PMS symptom. Worse than normal? Probably. Tolerable? Totally.

Overall, the side effects, if they really are side effects, are only questionably slightly worse than typical physical PMS stuff. On the flip side, with typical PMS, I can find myself wanting to cry at anything involving puppies or kittens or people finding their car keys when they had though they were lost. I have none of that going on - just the physical stuff. In my training class for this whole process, they said that that emotional PMS stuff comes from the relative drop in progesterone after it surges. So since I'm not going through a relative drop (same shot every day- and it's Lupron, which is maybe I think kind of like Progesterone) it makes total sense that my "emotional" symptoms are actually an improvement over typical PMS symptoms because there's no sudden drop.

Ok, time to do my 7th shot. Ouch, that one kinda pinched ... and bled a bit for the first time.