My Uterus Hates Me: CD1 Arrives

So I've been wondering when AF is going to start being that I had my last PIO on Friday morning. AP said that hers came 4 days after her last PIO shot. Mine followed suit for last night at 11:30pm AF came to visit. And with a vengeance. My uterus must really hate me: this has got to be one of the most miserable visits from AF I've had in a long time. Super tampons combined with those pegasus-sized pads with wings can't keep her at bay. Seriously folks, my hematocrit is going to drop below 30 with this visit.

J thinks that it's because I also started taking DHEA again - but I don't really think that's the case. It's probably the aspirin. The heparin is long gone from my system, so it doesn't explain it. But, I started taking the DHEA on Saturday afternoon. As soon as I got word that my HCG had plummeted to 0.9, I figured it was time to go "balls to the wall" with being proactive. (Like all of the shit that I did in my first IVF cycle wasn't proactive!?) The DHEA headache started right on schedule. I could barely sleep Saturday night...my head felt like someone had my jaws in a vice grip. Not a migraine sort of headache, or sinus pain on the front of the head, but just pressure on my jaws. My head literally felt like it would implode if the pressure didn't let up, or that I might clench my jaws and crack my mandible. Gives me the willies just thinking of that. It lingered on into Sunday and then on Monday I had a TMJ episode that nearly dropped me to my knees. Ice pick sensation in the left TM joint. Or so it felt like it.

So clearly yesterday I still wasn't ready to eat another one of those nasty little pills, but today I popped another. I thought: "Okay, maybe the DHEA isn't giving me the headache. Maybe it's because I'm depressed, crying too much, something else. Maybe I'm not drinking enough water?" Well, I gave in to the scientist in me that wanted proof. I love proof, and to keep the skeptics at bay who might think I'm just being a hypochondriac (speaking directly to TV here) I took another 25mg pill at 9am today. Felt fine for most of the day, I was coasting, everything fine, but then right about 4:00pm, I'm driving in the rover heading to Home Depot and lo and behold: that fucking headache is back. 7 hours for it to kick in this time. Feels the same, smells the same. It makes me irritable, unable to focus, impatient. Only this time I've got nausea too. I don't get it. How the hell did the woman in that DHEA study eat 75mg/day? Was she suicidal from the pain of her aching head? No comprendo. Really, it's beyond me.

So tonight, I'll be riding the couch as well as the "big white horse". Me, my heating pad, and netflix. It's a miserable date, for one.

Peace out.