Ugh. Ow. Ugh.
So I find myself fighting off a particularly (well, for me, anyway) UTI, and I’m just cranky with it. I don’t tend to get UTIs, in fact, I think I was probably in college the last time I had to deal with this. It’s my own damned fault – I let myself get a bit dehydrated late last week and I didn’t immediately camel-up when I caught myself, just let it slide.
Now, there aint nothin’ slidy about it. Ow.
And it’s the miserable sort where you feel just fine unless you’re actually on the toilet, or, you know, trying to sleep. Then it’s a horrible sensation that if only you could pee a lot, NOW, all would be well. But of course you can’t, because you’ve been peeing every 10 minutes for the last 2 hours. Very annoying.
So I’ve started in on the straight cranberry juice (blech!) and on the huge amounts of water, and I hope it’s better tonight, because otherwise, I’m probably going to have to go pee in a cup for someone and be on antibiotics through Thanksgiving which would really suck. Nausea + turkey = never a good thing.
And, just for the record? I’m totally blaming the Lupron. Granted, it’s giving me a whole new incentive to stay away from the sugar, which brought my scale-moment back down to the point where I didn’t want to take a carving knife to my flesh this morning. But still. Not the way I’d prefer to inspire myself.
Fucking Lupron.
Oh, and on that note? I’m not entirely convinced it’s doing what it should to keep me suppressed. Feels an awful lot like I’m going to ovulate today or tomorrow, which would, I imagine, throw a wrench in our synch-up-the-bodies plan for retrieval/transfer.
Grrr.
(Have I mentioned the rage? The overwhelming pissiness? (no pun intended). Let’s just say that right now, you really don’t want to make me any crankier than I already am. Hear that Universe? Don’t fuck with me today. I am Not in the mood.)
Sorry about the UTI. Yuck.
Now, granted, I have never been on Lupron. But I was convinced there was way too much follicular stuff going on when I was on Ganirelix, and I’d go in for a baseline scan and find a bunch of cysts. Turns out the opposite was happening (bad things burst and went away). Wpuld be nice to have a home ultrasound machine to check, though, wouldn’t it? I’m thinking good thoughts for you.
I hate IUI’s. I get them all the time. Instead of drinking cran juice, get the cranberry tablets from the drugstore/pharmacy and pop 2-4 of them with two large glasses of water. They are what my pharmacist advised me to take while I was waiting on a prescription for antibiotics, and I’ve found even when there is no infection, taking them is magical. Hope the pain goes away soon1
Sympathies – for both the UTI and the Lupron hell – I recognise them both.
Ugh! I hate a UTI! It’s been a long time for me too, but I do remember that cranberry juice and the tabs you can get at the drug store are good.
I second the suggestion for cranberry capsule, and gosh darn S, how shitty and I am so sorry! that feeling is truly remarkably bad.
Can you call about how you are feeling about ovulation? I think you have every right to ask for a quick scan and a lot of reassurance.
So shitty fucking lupron
xox
kate
Ugh. UTI’s are THE worst! I had a constant UTI for the first 4 months I was married. Then, I’d get a yeast infection from the antibiotics. Then it would start all over! It was awful!
I agree with the above commenters about the cranberry pills and asking for an ultrasound to check the ovaries. Those sound like great ideas all around!
Happy ICLW!