God Bless Birth Control

I still feel like complete crap and my pants still don't fit, but I'm not about to fully keel over on the floor anymore. Hooray. I guess.

I could be sad that I've formally cancelled this month's cycle, but I'm just happy that I'm starting to feel better.

I'm proud of myself for making the responsible decision. There was a high likelihood that even through "natural" methods, we would have gotten pregnant this month. The issue is that if we were to get pregnant today, we would be looking at up to thirty kids (more on that at the bottom).

Extreme multiple prego is not gonna happen for us -- we would not allow it to...and that's a tough decision to have to make. I say I'm comfortable with "selective reduction," but I'm really glad I've never had to make the decision to reduce.

Back to my well-deserved whining.

Guess what? Hyper-stimulated ovaries are really painful. What are the actual "things that feel bad?"

• Extreme nausea - which, I still have.


• Extreme fatigue - of course, one should expect their body to be really tired when it's trying to release in one month what takes a normal woman nearly three years to do.


• Hot flashes - Flashes my doctor said are very similar to menopausal flashes. Um, I don't want to go through menopause.


• Abdominal swelling - Fluid builds up in your pelvis and if it gets bad enough, they have to do a "pelvic tap." I was borderline needing a tap this morning.


• Dehydration - I cannot get enough water into my body.


• Restlessness/inability to sleep.


• Headaches.

So basically, it's a self-induced party of awesomeness. Oh and those pains you get during ovulation...those pains x's thirty...cause I had thirty fully developed follicles when I was scanned this morning.