Side effects

Categories: to-be-categorised

Tags: explanations, IVF, hormones

Date: 10 October 2009 08:00:46

*Disclaimer - this post was not written this morning, I am deliberately posting these entries on different dates so that I can be fully open about this IVF stuff without people knowing exactly what is happening when. It's a self preservation thing, with all of the injected hormones I become a bit of an emotional wreck, and am saving myself the pressure of people curious to know outcomes before I'm ready to tell.

So the injections shouldn't be affecting me yet. I've had this stuff for three cycles before now, they are supposed to suppress my own hormones, ready for the chemically manufactured hormones that I will start injecting sometime later. Yet this time is different. Maybe I'm just wound up anyway, and am blaming the chemicals, but within 24 hours of starting this I've had to leave a social situation before I screamed at someone, who was just being them, and I knew rationally was doing nothing wrong or out of the ordinary.

I also lost it quite a lot more than I should have done this morning to a lovely woman who, whilst in the wrong did not deserve to be told so quite as vehemently as I did. It was a situation that I'd got myself into and couldn't get out of very easily. I need to minimise the number of these I can manage over the coming weeks. My friends have lives, problems and issues of their own and they don't need me turning into the hormone powered b**** queen from hell at the merest provocation. :(

*Disclaimer - this post was not written this morning, I am deliberately posting these entries on different dates so that I can be fully open about this IVF stuff without people knowing exactly what is happening when. It's a self preservation thing, with all of the injected hormones I become a bit of an emotional wreck, and am saving myself the pressure of people curious to know outcomes before I'm ready to tell.