Posts Tagged ‘pms’
We are Back
I miss sixty degrees and warm weather. We came home to thirty degrees and snow. Yesterday sucked though. We had to drive 2 hours to the airport. Then, we had a four hour flight to Georgia. Then, we had a two hour layover before we hopped a plane to Chicago for another two hours. Needless to say, today we feel pretty bad (I wouldn’t say to the level of having fibromyalgia but man, I feel like my body has been through the ringer). I have had a couple people ask why we flew so weird. Well, the tickets we used were the ones I won on the Rachel Ray show. They were Delta tickets, and this was our only choice for a flight.
Everybody is doing well — just a little tired. I am hoping to get some posts written up this weekend about the trip, so I can show you guys all the cool stuff we did in Arizona. It was a trip in a lifetime, since I cannot see us going back there.
Womanly Things
This post is going to be complaining about womanly things that with be referred to as Flo (you know, the waitress from the game Diner Dash). I just wanted to warn the faint of heart before I begin.
Do you know what having a baby does to your hormones? If not, let me explain. It completely throws them out of wack. Why do I say that? Well, after having Madison, for about 5 months, Flo would visit three weeks out of the month. Then I would have a week without her and then she would come and visit again. This wonderful occurrence started after what I have happening now. Currently, Flo visits every two weeks. I am on birth control, so this should NOT be happening. However, until we find the one that works for me, we play this wonderful game. I get PMS, so anyone who has regular contact with me should get some term life insurance. Seriously. After having Madison, they actually put me on PMD medication, since I was so moody. I hoping to avoid that right now.
On the other end of womanly things, I bought some new bras, since after having Will, the girls changed in size. Here’s the scary/weird part of the story. Bill was checking out what I bought when I went shopping and asked what size they were. I said they were a DD cup, and he goes no they look more D cup. I checked, and he was right. Why does my husband know cup sizes by just looking at them? LOL
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Women Unite
I enjoy reading blogs from other mothers and Where’s Mommy’s Prozac? is no exception to that. She has a great post talking about why she titled her blog that. I think it is great. After chasing and arguing with a three year old all day, I could definitely use some Prozac. In that post, she talks about her post partnum depression and how it still effects her today. A lot of people do not understand what having a baby does to your body. Everyone gets the body changes. Not everybody understands the hormonal changes.
***warning: talking about women stuff here***I know after I had Madison I had the period from hell. It lasted 3 weeks. I would get a week off. Then I had it again for three weeks. I sucked it up while I was breastfeeding since there really isn’t anything I could do about it (I know about the mini pill but I really didn’t want to go the birth control route). After Madison was four months old I quit breastfeeding (actually, she never breastfeed. She would not latch on. I tried everything. Went to lactation consultants. That still didn’t work. I ended up pumping for four months and she was bottlefed breastmilk). I also went back to the doctor and asked for help. We started me on the pill. That seemed to help with the 3 week period. I went back to a normal regular cycle. However, that did not help with the hormonal problems I was having. About a week before my period, I would not be able to function. It was bad. Bill actually asked that I go back to the doctor to find out what was going wrong. I ended up being diagnosed with PPMD (at least I think that’s what it was called). It is PMS to the extreme. I ended up taking what I called my “happy” pills for a couple of months. Even with health insurance, they were costing us $50 a month, so I started tapering them off myself.
Back to my point, it is nice to hear someone talk so frankly about antidepressants and how they have helped her life. She also talks about a variety of other topics. I would classify her as a general blogger. She talks about her kids, her life, her smart alarm clock that isn’t so smart, etc. It is a great read.
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