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[jeshyr]

Okay! Significantly less grumpy than before. Going off the pill wasn't nearly as bad as expected - one day of über grumpiness and one day of moderate grumpiness and one day of spotting and that was all. Will try to get hormones checked properly in a few months...

Neurontin dose is now at 2/3 of the original dose, which is where I will sit for a month or so. My slightly-obsessive brain gets annoyed when med doses have to be made up of different sized pills at different times of the day, so 2/3 is a good place to stay because all my 600mg doses are replaced by 400mg doses and I can get 400mg capsules. Yes, I know this is pretty much a dumb reason to pick a certain dose but it makes my brain happy!

Spring sucks donkey balls. How on earth I can be full of snotty hayfever symptoms when I am taking 4x normal antihistamine dose PLUS two nose sprays PLUS two eye drops PLUS bloody steroids even .... I am baffled. All of those things undoubtedly help somewhat, because it's even worse without them, but this is crazycakes.

Also I am quadruple-plus-exhausted which is probably partially from the allergy stuff and partially from all the med changes just using up my meagre reserves of energy. Sleeping sleeping sleeping resting and more resting. Thank all the imaginary people in the sky for audiobooks and ABC radio.

Flatmate is sitting another of those evil IELTS tests on Saturday ... this will be attempt #8. Cripes I hope she gets the score she needs this time ... the tests seem to be totally crazy and and the scores not very much correlated with English ability at all, from this point of view :( I hate that test!!

A slightly early Eid Mubarak to those who celebrate it. We are having a Sunday lunch celebration after the dammed IELTS is over for this time.

That's all for now. More sleeping ...


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Comments

[sheramil]

> Spring sucks donkey balls.


wow, i thought that was just me. stupid plant bukakke.

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every day is made of four other days
- the mushrooms, in conversation with Terence McKenna

[jeshyr]

(although I must admit that now I'm all with the jewellery making Pearl Necklaces while I am snotty with hayfever does make me giggle...)

[sheramil]

I can't be sure, but I don't think plants look at it like that. Although I wonder if I could get an agricultural grant to study whether plants grow better if you sneeze on them.
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I don't have a drug problem. I have a drug solution!
- Rehabilitating Mr Wiggles

[pauamma]

It's their way of making sure you vote whether you want to or not. If you don't go to the polls, the pollen station will come and get you.

[jesse_the_k]

Oh, do you knot em?

I love mixing pearls with glass.

Sympathy for the "make my dosing symmetrical" needs.

I was amazed to learn from my endocrinologist that there aren't "standard levels" for estrogen & estradiol (I'm taking them post-menopause for hot flashes). Perhaps the standard of care is different in Oz?

(No reply needed. SLEEEEEEP)

[acelightning]

it's spring in Australia, which means plant-bukkake time. it's autumn in New Jersey, which means... ragweed-bukkake time. i think the damn triffids are doing it on purpose. it's almost enough to make me eat vegetables, just because i hate plants so much. ("i'm not a vegetarian because i love animals... i'm a vegetarian because i hate plants!")

except for one particular plant, of course... ;-)

[sheramil]

i think plants just.. like.. making.. bukkake. perhaps as revenge for us eating them.

[acelightning]

they should leave me alone, then, because i hardly ever eat plants. well, grains, but those don't pollinate through the air like trees and weeds.

i'm going to be in serious trouble if the pigs ever stage a revolution, though...

[feyandstrange]

As someone who has had to switch brands of vitamin supplements because they were the wrong *color* to go with my OCD in my pill box, I feel your dosage pain. Glad the meds are working out!

[dragonsally]

This is the worst spring I can remember for hay fever. I wish the weather would just settle down.

*grumbles*

[forthwritten]

I'm invigilating an IELTS test on Saturday. I tend to think of them like driving theory tests; you can be a perfectly competent driver or user of language, but the test works in such a way and is so removed from normal everyday situations that you have to study for the test. Best of luck to your flatmate.