Snap, Crackle, Pop

I've been a bit absent this week. It's because I've been in pain. I told you last week about my neck and shoulder pain. The massage helped for about 3 days. Then the pain came back with a vengeance. And I've spent most of the last 3 days laying on a heating pad. Yesterday I broke down and called a couple of friends who are chiropractors. They were able to squeeze me in and I spent about an hour being poked and prodded - but I'm used to that! Then another 30 minutes of them "adjusting" the upper half of my body and I was outta there.

I feel better, not 100% yet, but I go back tomorrow and I'm hoping I am out of pain by Saturday.

I did disclose to my practitioner that I *could* be pregnant, so no X-rays or elctro-stim was done. And fortunately she specializes in maternity, so I felt comfortable letting her work on me.

Now, let's talk progester0ne. Today is day 4. So far, so good. No apparent side effects. Here's exactly what I'm taking:

I insert it, squeeze the bulb and then lay flat for 20 minutes. I guess I figure that most of it should be absorbed in 20 minutes. I wasn't instructed to do this, but I wasn't really given any instruction, so I'm winging it the best I can. I will say that I've had very little "loss" of it though, while I have had some normal moisture, I don't feel like it's pouring out of me, and I don't even need the panty liner.

MAJOR TMI ALERT::: The paperwork that came with the applicators, did say that after a few days I could see some clumpy white pieces in my CM and that this was completely normal. I did only after the second day and I was in shower cleaning and felt them. I haven't seen any more.

On a related note, I have temped 3 mornings now. Tuesday = 98.62, Wednesday = 98.98, Thursday = 98.61. I think there might have been something wrong with my BBT on Wednesday because it shot up to 98.98 in under a minute. Way too fast to be accurate. It's really rather obsolete at this point anyway, the progesterone could be giving me false highs, it is known to do that.

Day 8

Today is day 8 of not being able to breathe. I have been able to self-medicate enough to get through the day and sleep most of the night, but by morning I'm completely stuffy again and have to breathe through my mouth, which makes my throat hurt.

Then yesterday, I developed a cough. And that cough has continued today.

I broke down and called my PCP. At least I know this will only cost my $20 co-pay. I will most likely get a shot in the butt. My PCP is very fond of those. And probably an antibiotic to boot. Thank goodness that I'm not nearly pregnant enough for meds to matter (<-- do you love the positive thinking there?).

ETA: Just got home. Sinus infection and bronchitis. Strep test was negative, but doc said if I came in tomorrow it would have been positive my throat was VERY red. And my lungs had a lot of fluid in them and I'm wheezing something awful (just didn't know that this was what "wheezing" was) and that if I'd waited to come in next week, I'd probably have full-blown pneumonia. Good timing, huh?