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Jan
11

On Hold

Things have been a bit quiet around here lately, and I don’t like it. But I’ve been a bit ‘on hold’ for the past week while I wait for test results and deal with my body the best way I can.

I went into the doctor yesterday for some test results and found out that I don’t have a UTI and I don’t have the bacteria the other doc thought was causing all of my nausea and heartburn.

The doctor I saw yesterday got rather goo-goo eyed and became convinced I’m pregnant. She ordered a blood test (thankfully they still had my blood for the previous test so I didn’t have to give anymore) and told me to take it easy.

Right.

I got a bit goo-goo eyed myself for a while before I got back to reality and the enormous list of things that would prevent me from being pregnant right now. Namely, blood. Now, I’ve never had ‘spotting’ or even a ‘light’ period, so I don’t know what those are like. I imagine it’s similar to what I’m having now, though. So the whole baby theory is likely my system just playing up again and being to lazy to function enough to have even a period.

Okay, so I’m a bit grumpy. I do apologise. I just don’t like all these reminders of how my female system doesn’t function properly yet.

I want some answers, some industrial strength stomach soother and the okay to get back on the Wii Fit to exhaust myself with exercise every morning.

I go for the results for the pregnancy test this afternoon. I’ve already decided that if it’s negative and they try referring me out somewhere for other tests, I’m done. Finished. I’ll bear the nausea and continue on because I’m sick of test, wait, test, wait.

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Jan
03

One More Reason…

I’ve started the new year lower than my highest weight and only half a kilo heavier for the holiday and sudden road trip indulgences, but I have also started this year with another reason to keep getting healthier.

As if I needed one more reason…

Sometimes it is easy to forget why we are doing this. Even when we’re wearing the pants every day that we only used to wear on our ‘fat’ days, we forget the benefits like lower risk for diabetes, heart problems, longevity, etc. I forgot a while back, but these past few weeks have been nothing but a big reminder…

If I were at a normal, healthy weight, I would happily tell you now that I think I’m pregnant. I have sore boobs, intermittent abdominal cramps, random and rampant nausea, heartburn (which I haven’t had since I was about eight years old), sneezing fits, heaps of tiredness, headaches, food aversions and more.

The big thing that was the last straw for me, and a big inspiration for this post, was the fact that I smelled some off food before my husband did. Our freezer got turned off at some point and some of the food spoiled. I smelled it from across the unit with the freezer door shut. And my husband, who was doing laundry right by the freezer and has a sense of smell at least ten times better than mine because I only have one functioning sinus, didn’t smell it.

If I was at a normal weight, I would happily tell you I might be pregnant.

But I’m not at a normal weight, and that’s what breaks my heart. The smell thing, I don’t know. But the sore boobs could be PMS. The cramps due to my cyst. Nausea, heartburn, tiredness, headaches and food aversions? Flu or stomach bug, perhaps, or just a reaction to the rich food of the holiday season. Sneezing fits? Tis the season in Australia.

If I were healthier, I might still have cysts, but I wouldn’t have such a large range of other things wrong with me that could explain what are also known as early pregnancy symptoms. Less would be a mystery and complication, and more would be symptoms of a single cause.

It’s not the right time for us anyway, with a move very possibly coming up soon, me so far from my goal weight, financial awkwardness, so on and so forth. But if I was healthier, I either wouldn’t have half the problems I have right now, or I might be able to tell you some good news in a while…

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Dec
29

Quiet Buzzing

Hi all!

I meant to be blogging sooner than this – I do have a lot to talk about! – but things have been busy. The Bloke is home all this week and we’re waiting and hoping for good news for him (I can’t say anything just yet…). I’m also trying to finish my novel before the new year.

I also seem to have caught a ‘barely there bug’ with sniffles, sneezing and tiredness. Thankfully taking naps has been doable lately. In an ideal world, I’d wonder if I’m pregnant because of the sore boobs, cramps and such, but not only am I on birth control, I’m still also dealing with a cyst. So yay for me and more cranberry juice. Le sigh.

Beyond that, I’m doing some overhauling of my other blogs in my spare time. I’m hoping to get those all sorted before the new year, too. (Right…)

You can see why blogging hasn’t been on the top of the list. But it will be again soon.

I hope everyone is having a lovely holiday season.

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Dec
14

AdoreTea

If there is anything I can say about what Australia has taught me, I can say that I have learned so much more about natural remedies. When I was growing up, even chiropractics was considered a bunch of hogwash (and I could have used it!). So herbs, vitamins and teas? Yeah, no. But now I’m here and I am embracing natural ways to help my system become healthier.

Which is how I came to find Adoretea.

After spending a lot of time researching and talking to women who a) have PCOS, b) want to conceive or c) both, I decided to try out some raspberry leaf tea. I figure that if it can do half the stuff some women claim it can do, then I’ll be doing well. So I looked around online and found this lovely website that sells raspberry leaf tea in all kinds of different sizes.

I bought the 50g packet of raspberry leaf tea for $5.50 AUD. I don’t know if I even like the stuff, but my thinking is that I will have to drink it for a while to feel the full effects. Given you use one teaspoon to brew a cup, this size is more than enough to test it out.

I was just going to leave it at that, but I decided to nose around the other teas as well. There are so many! And so many that sound so delicious…

I ended up getting about a half a dozen of their ’2 Cup Sampler’ packs. What an excellent idea! At $0.95 AUD a pack, I can try all sorts of different kinds without it being too expensive (especially if I end up hating any of the kinds I chose).

As I make more and more changes geared not just for my overall health but for creating a healthy environment for my future bubs to grow in, I feel more like I am headed on the right path – for mind, body and spirit.

I’ve even added a new category called ‘Natural Health’ for when I talk about the influence of the vitamins, teas, etc I add to my regime. Hopefully I’ll find some great things come of it.

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Dec
13

Kinda Like Starting Over

I am always excited about starting something new, but when it comes to my body and the difficulties of the past fortnight, I am being careful not to think of getting back on the horse as starting over.

Exercise is difficult right now, as the pain, doctors and such have pushed me past my stress limit. Get me past that limit and my body shuts down to the point of making things like just doing the laundry and walking down to the shops very tiring. The good news is that, as much as I get tired out by little things, I’m recovering from that tired faster and faster every day.

Once again I am grateful for my Wii Fit, as I can use it as the energy strikes (which would be difficult with a gym or even with walking given Melbourne’s ever-changing weather moods).

I’ve gotten my next set of three months of birth control, and I am using that as a goal to really make a dent in the weight loss and fitness levels. I want to get off birth control (I hate the idea of artificial hormones) and I’m hoping that the end of this prescription can mean the end forever.

I’m now taking milk thistle and have ordered some raspberry leaf tea to try out in an effort to help my lady parts sort themselves out naturally. The very fact that I have an ovarian cyst means my system is waking up (my system pretty much just did nothing for a long time), and I want to take this opportunity to do what I can to treat it right.

So I’m not starting over so much as adjusting while my body adjusts to things.

And the adjustments are focusing not only toward a healthier me but towards a healthier environment for future bubs…

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