Day 5

Last night was really hard. I was incredibly sensitive to everything and everyone. It was embarrassing. I'm glad I was home for the better part of the evening. 

Today has been better...

I've been tired all day. Fortunately,  I have not been pissy in the least, just the kind of tired that you get right before your period (or on the first day) when your head feels heavy and you just want to sleep. The threatening headache is still there, but it has yet to come out of its shell and blow up all over my head, thankfully. I'm aware of its presence, but, it has stayed at bay so far. 

Also, my stomach/throat was in burning pain when I woke up, but, I think that may have been from dinner last night that included a lot jalapenos. I was really nauseous on waking, but a few tums cleared that right up.  

Did I mention that this cycle I'm not going to be doing any temperature taking/mucus testing?That will come in later chapters....much later chapters. This early part is mostly what I'm going through in coming off the hormones. So basically, it will probably be a lot of bitching. Heh. 

For this and probably the next cycle or two, I think we'll just use condoms 100% of the time opposed to the temp/mucus (lovely) checking... - as my body needs to get used to the no-hormones things and become more at home in itself again before it is regular/reliable enough to believe. 

 If you'd like to know more about the method I'll be using to figure out when I'm ovulating - pick up "Taking Control of Your Fertility" at your local bookstore. It talks about charting your temperature daily, and checking your cervical mucus to know when you're most fertile/not fertile. If you're trying to get pregnant, obviously you'd want to have more and unprotected sex during your fertile time...and for me, I believe we'll probably be abstaining on the few days around when I ovulate. There are other fun things we can do during that time ;-) I mean, of course we could use condoms during that time, but I dont know if I'm comfortable yet with trusting my knowledge of my body, as funny as that may sound...I might need to re-read that book about a 100 more times...

Ok, going to head out for now and just go close my eyes. 

Bye for now...