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I am teh ITCH! My forearm is bright red from scratching whilst my brain is elsewhere. Don't know what the forearm skin is reacting to. I know damn well what my butt-crack skin is reacting to - work opened a new bag of toilet paper and it ain't hypoallergenic. I'll have to take some in, because I'm tired of flinching every time I move, and then flinching because that makes the sore, splitting, freakin' itchy skin move against itself some more, and my stock of officewear that doesn't show pantylines or the colour of my underwear (mostly black when it comes to briefs) is running very short. Then there's stockings. Pantyhose p*** me off. Anything that I can pull over my shoulders while the crotch is falling down my legs is Wrong. Right at the moment, I can't stand my thigh-highs either, because my thigh-skin is reacting to the slight friction as I walk and my thighs rub together in freakin' suit skirts and the rubber what holds them up moves. There is a healing scar from welts and blisters caused by the last pair I wore for a full day a couple of months ago. So before winter, I need to buy a couple of pairs of office-work trousers. Which means getting them made so that the hips of the garment don't end 6-8 inches below where they need to to look not-stupid.
Then there's the spotting. Freaked me out today, go to the bathroom, it's two days too late for spotting but there it is. If it happens again this year I'll go to the GP and ask for ultrasounds again, so they can make sure that everything's OK. Since there's Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in the family, they'll do it like a shot.
And is it normal for the heaviness of menstruation to taper off after puberty? I remember needing to change super-absorbency tampons every four hours during high school, but I haven't needed to use a super one at all in the last 4-5 years. Even when off the pill. I knew the lack of stomach cramps recently was probably due to the reduction of blood lactate and stress. I used to go through an entire packet of painkillers that week, now I might use one, generally to combat the headache I always end up with, trying not to snap at people.
Probably another Urinary Tact Infection. Again. I just got rid of the sinus infection, and now I have a backache (my main symptom of UTIs) and I stink (to my well-trained nose). One of these decades I shall go 12 months without needing antibiotics. Some day. And with UTIs I can't get away with not treating even the minor ones that go away by themselves eventually because I get reflux there, too. That means the valve between the bladder and kidneys is screwed and lets liquids travel in both directions instead of only one. UTIs and bladder infections can very quickly become kidney infections, and while I have no scarring (yet) from those, I'd like to keep it that way. Bloody chronic problems.
This mood-picker thingy doesn't have lachrymose! I wanted to say lachrymose, AND have an icon for it. Stuff it, cranky is near enough now.
Then there's the spotting. Freaked me out today, go to the bathroom, it's two days too late for spotting but there it is. If it happens again this year I'll go to the GP and ask for ultrasounds again, so they can make sure that everything's OK. Since there's Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in the family, they'll do it like a shot.
And is it normal for the heaviness of menstruation to taper off after puberty? I remember needing to change super-absorbency tampons every four hours during high school, but I haven't needed to use a super one at all in the last 4-5 years. Even when off the pill. I knew the lack of stomach cramps recently was probably due to the reduction of blood lactate and stress. I used to go through an entire packet of painkillers that week, now I might use one, generally to combat the headache I always end up with, trying not to snap at people.
Probably another Urinary Tact Infection. Again. I just got rid of the sinus infection, and now I have a backache (my main symptom of UTIs) and I stink (to my well-trained nose). One of these decades I shall go 12 months without needing antibiotics. Some day. And with UTIs I can't get away with not treating even the minor ones that go away by themselves eventually because I get reflux there, too. That means the valve between the bladder and kidneys is screwed and lets liquids travel in both directions instead of only one. UTIs and bladder infections can very quickly become kidney infections, and while I have no scarring (yet) from those, I'd like to keep it that way. Bloody chronic problems.
This mood-picker thingy doesn't have lachrymose! I wanted to say lachrymose, AND have an icon for it. Stuff it, cranky is near enough now.
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