It's been quite a week...

So after the pain and misery of Sunday and Monday, I spoke with my RE's nurse about the stomach pain I was having and after telling me she thought is was heartburn (which it wasn't), she wanted to know everything I was taking (which of course I've already told her). So on top of the Premarin (4/day) and Provera (2/day), I also have always taken a PNV (w/DHA), extra Omega (1/3 daily dose), baby aspirin, and cranberry extract (1/3 daily dose). She seemed annoyed that I was taking the cranberry and I reminded her that it is to help prevent UTI's (which I'm prone to, and c-berry juice is rough on my stomach). So she talked to my RE and told me that I should stop taking the cranberry. BTW, I've been taking it for three years w/o issue.

Since she was so helpful, I decided to stop taking everything except the Premarin/Provera which I finally finish tomorrow (thank God!) and now feel better. No more pain (aka stomach bleeding, or the associated black poo, yay!). I now see that Omegas aren't recommended w/aspirin, but of course no health professional (including my RE, nurse or mom) has ever bothered to mention this to me.

After I'm done w/my Rx protocol which has been SO much worse than the actual procedure, I will have to see if everything I was taking goes back to working for me w/o any stomach bleed or not as I wasn't able to manage a trial and error experiment this week.

It's been an insane week at work, 14 hr. days, on top of all of this stomach crap. My boss doesn't know what I'm going through (I'm new and now he's moving to another group), which makes it all that much more difficult. He also likes to drop random comments about how working late keeps him from seeing his kids. Ugh! If he only had a clue, and his wife stays home for crying out loud. Almost done with changes for our project to go up to the CEO. I guess he's waiting for it...
I finally got word about the Switzerland trip... It will overlap with S's trip to Utah (which I'm so lucky I hadn't yet bought a ticket for) and also likely for my entire fertile window. One of us will be gone for a good week, so unless he has super swimmers and we get REALLY lucky, March will be a bust. :(

I found a new discount home decor shopping site, One Kings Lane.
One Kings Lane


Let me know if you want a referral to join. It's like a Gilt Groupe for home, and this picture from their website made me happy...