cosmolinguist | Work vs. uterus (Reply)

What a fun time to get the worst period I've had in years: in the middle of the night on a camping trip.

It was our last night there, which was good from the perspective of going home that day, which means I'm not far from soap and water and hot water bottles.

But going home that day also means all the work of getting our huge amount of camping gear dismantled and taken to the car which feels miles away, was done with cramps and tiredness and brainfog.

I slept a lot last night. But the tiredness was still present today. And the brainfog, which was really rough on a very demanding work day.

But almost as soon as I finished work, I started getting such horrible cramps that my pain spiked into "this is preventing me from doing things" levels. Ibuprofen and a hot water bottle and a pre-dinner nap helped a little, but I still barely ate any dinner, couldn't walk the dog, and other dispiriting things. I'd have had to call in sick to work if it had been that bad during work hours..

I haven't missed any of my meds that help deal with periods. But even when I have, the resulting periods have not been like this. I'm going to keep an eye on it but this is still well within my experience of periods before I started hormonal birth control so I'm not worried yet. Just tired and sad.