All hips...and not in that sexy way

I finally (finally!) stopped dripping, but the pain hasn't faded. Saturday's pain I'm blaming on the 6-hour shopping trip (Mom says spending that long on her feet always made her back hurt), but I don't know why my hips are hurting today. Unless it's from sleeping so long last night...my darling boyfriend was over, and sleeping is more fun when he's in bed with me, so I slept 10 hours as opposed to my usual 7. Even after a half-hour backrub, I'm still moving like an old woman, clutching at my hip.

I've got a list of supplements (with amounts, for once) that I got somewhere on teh intarwebs (I forget where). At this point, I'm game for just about anything, so I'm going to stock up on the recommended dosages and take them for a month or two, then report back.

Oh, now, this just isn't fair

Just as things were starting to wind down with this month's cycle, I started back up again. Back pain: check. Shooting pains down my legs: check. Migraine: check. (And, well, my first day of freedom from the Always was cut rudely short.)

Ah, well...I need to catch up on my editing anyway.

Yeah, pain

Pain that the Lyrica plus a heating pad can't really touch. It reaches from my lower back to my ankles -- my feet even got into the mix earlier. And I have a migraine to top it all off.

I did learn something today: Lumbar pillows help, particularly while driving. Especially while driving for an hour, which is what I did this evening. One way. I just need a better pillow; I'm using a herbal heating pack at the moment (unheated). It's the right shape and size, but a bit hard. One of those smooshy pillows would do the trick. Looked at Hel-Mart for them (Mom's idea to go there, and she quickly remembered why we don't), but of course with the Friday night crowd we couldn't find a thing. I'll try Target tomorrow.

Happily, the bloating is at a low ebb this time. Dunno if it's my diet (been focusing more on healthy foods and juice and less on pizza) or if I just got lucky this month. I suppose I ought to keep track of these things.

Aleve experiment: fail?

I read somewhere (I forget where) that the proper way to take Aleve for cramps is to start taking it a week ahead of time, and take it continually for two weeks. Well, despite my surprise start last week, I tried this...problem is that, given this week's allergy stuff, I may have forgotten a pill or two. Either way, I'm in spine-crunching pain right now. :P So either it didn't work/I started too late (because of the early start), or I did it wrong. I'll have to try again next month and see if it works any better.

On the up side, my bruise is gone, and it took the lump with it! (Well, most of it anyway -- I still have a small hard spot where it was.)

Still bruised

The area where I had the lump aspirated is still sporting a knot and a lime-green bruise. I know I bruise easily, and that my bruises hang on for-bloody-ever, but I'm ready for this one to go away now.

Am I being punished?

Started my period today -- a week early. And I'm currently slogging through my third cold of the year. A friend of mine says I've been pushing myself too hard, and that's why all of this has been happening. Maybe he's right. But I don't know what I'm going to do about it.

This month I was going to test-drive the "proper" way to take Aleve -- starting it a week before the period, and taking it continually until the normal cramping period has passed. Well, I didn't get a chance to take it before (I actually went out today and bought Aleve with the intent of starting the premedication today). But because of my cold, I have been taking Advil pretty steadily for the past 24 hours. So I'm going to take my first Aleve in about 10 minutes and see if I can play catch-up.

I sure hope it works. I'm miserable enough just with this cold.