I convinced Syn to direct all three shows for me on Friday. We switched it up so I just did tapes, I was there, but doing something that didn't require any real effort or brain power. We joke that a monkey could do tapes and that isn't much of an exageration! I did absolutely nothing on Saturday, just watched TV, slept, and read a book. It felt wonderful.
So today I'm having one more lazy day before I go back to being a functioning member of society. After FIVE DAYS of non-stop girl issues they seem to finally be going away. Cis... every time? really? How do you deal with that!?!?!?
I've done almost no blog reading the past couple days so I've mostly been spending my time today catching up on what everybody's been up to.
In other news... I now have some weird dry itchy skin thing happening on the back of my hands and onto the backs of my fingers. It's really weird and quite annoying!
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I use a combination of those therma patches they have out now and piggy backing of pain medicines (you can't take two doses of acetaminophen but you can take a dose of that kind of product, like Tylenol, and then another dose of an ibuprofin based product, like Motrin.)
I don't even use tampons because I would be changing them every thirty minutes so I use the ultra-thin overnight pads with wings (very hard to find, I buy them in bulk. If I can't find them I have to use two pads at once overlapping in the middle.) And I try not to stand up quickly after long periods of laying or sitting - at least not without immediately walking to the restroom.
I take an epsom salt bath at night to soothe my back (and to clean up) and still have to take a shower in the morning. I've never had a bed without a very thick mattress pad because of the propensity for bleeding through accidents but getting up often in the night helps to prevent that.
I have endometriosis, but even normal women can have very large black clots when they are on their periods and apparently as long as they aren't the size of a softball or larger your fine. Doesn't make it any less gross or uncomfortable just because it's normal though. :(
Definitely avoid salt and caffeine (if possible) and when the cramping is the worst and meds / heat & chanting don't work, lots of times excercise followed by a hot bath will. Truly when I'm on my period is the only time I'll do excercises. heh. :)
Posted by Cis | March 2, 2003 3:00 PM
Posted on March 2, 2003 15:00