Sooooo…I am in period limbo, as it were.
Plimbo as I like to call it.
I started spotting on Saturday morning, but my acupuncturist made me cross my heart with a Unicorn’s horn and take an oath on the Full Moon AND pledge to the Goddess that I would keep taking the progesterone tablets until I was SURE that my period had arrived. (Okay… she didn’t make me take an oath but she made me SWEAR.)
I guess the idea, which is really rather comical, is that potentially I could be pregnant and the spotting was an early sign there was something amiss and the magic progesterone pills could magically work their magic and viola! Pregnant!
AS IF.
But because I am a compliant patient (and I took The Oath), I have been cramming progesterone tablets down my craw like they’re Skittles.
And I am still spotting. No real period, just spotting and swearing and saying "For crissakes, just START already and put me out of my misery!"
I did take a HPT, which was so negative the stark whiteness of the result window practically blinded me, and my temperature is dropping, but slowly.
So, it seems I am at war with myself. My body is trying to start my period, but my craw-jamming with progesterone is preventing this from happening and I am stuck in the middle. GAWD. I want to rip someone’s head off, eat a chocolate cake and go to bed crying, all at the same time.
Dear Friends,
Plimbo is hell. I never want to come back. The weather sucks.
Much love,
Watson
Oh, shit Watson, that sucks. Plimbo ain’t a pretty place to be. Hope it gets better soon.
Sorry Watson…as S said, Plimbo is not a good place to be. Hang in there. Thinking of you.
Watson,
That freaking sucks!!!! Geez, you should just be able to stop the progesterone by now and be put of your misery!!!
I had a crappy day today too. Let’s go eat chocolate cake together!!!!
yeah, I wish you just stop the progesterone and get out of plimbo!
That sucks! Hoping you get to eat chocolate cake soon!
Plimbo does bite, Watson. It keeps that last little bit of tenacious hope hanging on hard.
Re: the reading in your last post. That sounds a lot better than my last one, who told me that my husband’s fertility would increase if he took supplements. Ha, yeah right. Accupuncture and supplements and now there’s NONE? Figure that.
I hope she was right though.
plimbo does suck. I’ve had it for 2 years straight. it sucks BIG TIME.
I hope you get resolution one way or the other soon!
But we keep going because we just don’t know. If we give up, might it have been ‘the one’?
I hope your plimbo become neither period nor limbo.
Mmmmm….chocolate cake….good thing it’s lunch time.
Plimbo is the worst–I hope you’re out of it soon and into something else that starts with a “p” (I’ll give you a hint, it’s not your period). And spotting–ugggh–don’t even get me started.
I had 16, 20 and 16 day LPs with progesterone. I kept thinking that I should keep taking the damn things, because *maybe*… yeah, right. If you’re sufficiently far past O, it might be worth it just to stop despite your acu’s recommendations. (Of course, I could never bring myself to stop until I was SURE it was the Crimson Bitch, just in case).
I’m sorry you’re in Plimbo nonetheless. I hope it resolves soon!
Ha! I’ve been in plimbo (*love* that word), too. And you’re right, the weather does suck. Hang in there.