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Butterflies can so be library assistants

7. February 2012

I haven’t written much about my health recently have I?
Well that’s because I’ve been pretty good. The decapeptyl seems to be keeping PMDD at bay, and the hot flushes are annoying but manageable.
All butterfly like I have been emerging from my crysallis and stretching my wings a little. They’re still a bit soggy and the [...]

I feel good, de na ne na ne na ne

15. September 2011

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I’ve been in artificial menopause for a month.
Today I had breakfast with friends and OMG I felt like me!
It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this ‘with it’ and healthy and happy.
Even though I was up in the night with a bad back, I still felt sharp and silly and good.
I laughed. I [...]

And then they stuck a needle in my bottom

6. August 2011

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And then they stuck a needle in my bottom

So I went in armed with dates, news articles, blog posts, diaries, questions, hopes, fears, facts.
We talked.
They listened.
And then they jabbed me in the ar*e!!
That quick. That simple.
I’ve been given Decapeptyl. I can have it for 6 months and it will put me in temporary menopause.
It will prove if PMDD is the main problem.
It’s EXACTLY what [...]

The beginning of the rest of my life…

4. August 2011

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Today, August 5th, is my PMDD referral.
I am scared, excited, hopeful and dread-filled.
Dread-filled because what if they don’t listen, can’t help, don’t get it?
I’ve already written a post about this on quick press and then completely lost it which maybe means that I was saying too much. Then again it might just have been one [...]

Scratch and Sniff

9. June 2011

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This is a scratch and sniff post. If you scratch the onscreen chocolates then sniff your computer it will smell of yummy chocolatey goodness. It works especially well if you hold a bar of chocolate under your nose as you do it.
Ready?
Ok. Fill your lungs, breath out slowly, nose to screen annnnnnnnnd
sniffffffffffffffffffffffffffffFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Go on, take in [...]

Breaking up is hard to do

6. June 2011

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Life is hard right now. My PMDD seems to have been taking over and I’ve been sinking into the kind of low that leaves me questioning so many things. The kind that leaves a constant prickling behind the eyes and an ache in the heart. The kind that makes every day a trawl.
At the same [...]

The one where I thought my blog was dead, and a tiny small Interflora Review

23. May 2011

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The one where I thought my blog was dead, and a tiny small Interflora Review

I missed my blogaversary.
How rude!
But I learnt something.
When your friend is awaiting the arrival of his new baby boy, and has been through a variety of virtual reincarnations and hence changes of email address over the past year, do not, I repeat DO NOT rely on the poor man to remember to register your domain [...]

Heading to a Celtic Haven

4. November 2010

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Today I am wearing my ‘just keep plodding head’ but I have my ‘going to have a lovely time’ head ready.
Why?
Well tomorrow myself and my two little girls are jumping on a train and heading to the gorgeous Welsh countryside to spend a weekend at Celtic Haven with lovely Linda, the fabulous Peabea and gorgeous [...]

Wishing I was Worzel Gummidge

2. November 2010

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Today I didn’t want to come home.
There are thoughts in my head that I find disconcerting. Dark, startling thoughts that seem completely PMDD, but this should be my PMDD free (ish) week?? Yet I feel totally hormonal. My mind is a jangle of whizzing thoughts and emotions. I could cry, scream, laugh or quite possibly explode.
The [...]

Slightly warm turkey and fabulous sunbeams

29. September 2010

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Doctor seen – check
Hysterectomy discussed – check
Hysterectomy put on back burner – Bugger
Joint decision to stop Venlafaxine and cyclogest to see what happens – check
Withdrawal plan decided – check
Begin taking Cerazette to rid me of the monthly misery (fingers crossed) – check
Start to feel a bit crappy – check
So my Doctor has decided to go [...]