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I've been having a rocky week and a half, and then I woke up this morning full of horrific lethargy and a spreading dull ache reaching from my navel to my knees and I thought: oh, uterus, really? And suddenly everything made sense.
This did not, however, make me hurt any less. 800mg of ibuprofin did- but hurting less did not mean not hurting today, and usually I can get all the way to not-hurting on 400mg. So I spent most of my lunch break curled up in the back seat of my car, and then I nearly burst into tears in Arabic.
I have not yet learned how to say "My reproductive organs are waging war on the rest of my body" in either Arabic or Persian yet. Perhaps I should look into that.
The joint pain is actually a relatively new thing; I don't think it started more than a year or two ago. It's been accompanied by more lower back pain lately, too. I disapprove of this. And, of course, every time this happens- whenever it gets this bad (which isn't often, thankfully)- I have to deal with my mom scolding me for not timing my painkillers better, for not going on an elimination diet, or taking multivitamins, or doing yoga or or or.
In other news, I now have a camera that works (this is new! and exciting!); I have many things to take pictures of. And in other other news...I got nothin', really. Life continues apace. Some day I may actually figure out what the hell I am doing.
This did not, however, make me hurt any less. 800mg of ibuprofin did- but hurting less did not mean not hurting today, and usually I can get all the way to not-hurting on 400mg. So I spent most of my lunch break curled up in the back seat of my car, and then I nearly burst into tears in Arabic.
I have not yet learned how to say "My reproductive organs are waging war on the rest of my body" in either Arabic or Persian yet. Perhaps I should look into that.
The joint pain is actually a relatively new thing; I don't think it started more than a year or two ago. It's been accompanied by more lower back pain lately, too. I disapprove of this. And, of course, every time this happens- whenever it gets this bad (which isn't often, thankfully)- I have to deal with my mom scolding me for not timing my painkillers better, for not going on an elimination diet, or taking multivitamins, or doing yoga or or or.
In other news, I now have a camera that works (this is new! and exciting!); I have many things to take pictures of. And in other other news...I got nothin', really. Life continues apace. Some day I may actually figure out what the hell I am doing.