Remember your vitamins and CUT THE CAFFEINE.
I’ve not been very good to myself. I keep forgetting to take my vitamins. It feels like there’s just too much to manage these days.
I have eight tiny herbal pills - Chinese medicine - and I have to take eight of these pills at a time, three times a day.
I have to take my pulse and temperature every three hours to present data to the endocrinologist.
I take one calcium/magnesium vitamin once nightly before bed.
I take one MSM pill once nightly before bed.
I take one vitamin C vitamin once nightly before bed.
Just with that alone, I’m still forgetting to take the MSM two more times a day, a B-complex vitamin once a day, a glucosamine sulfate pill once a day, and my pre-medication Ibuprofen up to twice a day.
That’s A LOT of pills going into my gullet. I feel like pills are all that I’m taking.
The problem now that I’ve forgotten for two months straight to take my B complex vitamins is that my breasts are so painful, I can’t even change into or out of bras and shirts without wincing from the pain. I have other symptoms, too:
- Irritability
- Bloating
- Swollen legs
- Cravings
- Fatigue
- Foregetfulness
Those are all symptoms of B-6 deficiency, as well as magnesium deficiency, according to what I read in Endometriosis: A Key to Healing Through Nutrition.
I thought I was getting enough magnesium, but according to the book, I need three times what I’m taking. Looks like another trip to Trader Joe’s or the local health food store to see if they have just magnesium to supplement the calcium/magnesium vitamin.
I remember to take vitamins at bedtime, but the problem with vitamin B is that it gives me nightmares if I take it at night. I’m going to have to get it in my head that a B vitamin MUST be taken with my first round of Chinese herbal pills in the morning.
I think once I have the B’s in my system again, I’ll stop having the two-weeks-before-george pain and fatigue and all that crap.
Oh and the tea thing… note to self:
NO MORE CAFFEINATED TEA, DAMMIT.
You cut the coffee, now cut the caffeinated tea.
NO MORE CAFFEINE.
REMEMBER, CAFFEINE WILL KILL YOU.
No wonder your breasts are tender. Caffeine is contributing to this.
Caffeine is bad for me.
GAH, sometimes, I swear I wanna smack you.
/note to self