Triple Goddess, I wish you had better Doctors, or at least we had a better medical system where your care was well coordinated and you were fully diagnosed. I have trouble believing the amount of suffering on our system causes you with inadequate pain control and difficulty with drug dispensing. I wonder if your doctors have moved as fast as they could at trying different things to find something that works. No suggestions, just some rage on your behalf. Nothing, I'm sure, compared to what you feel at times.

I'm bargaining on the headaches leaving with my periods.

Menopause didn't entirely eliminate my mom's migraines, but it did blunt them to a bearable level from her previous take-to-a-sickroom-for-two-days sort.

But I have a glass of wine and I have chocolate mice

You had me until you said mice ...

My parents stopped over earlier, and my dad fell again today. Just missed the curb, wasn't dizzy or anything, but he has a huge shiner and scraped knees and palms. The colors are going to be spectacular in a few days, but this is the ... third? time he's fallen within a year, and it makes me nervous.

In other exciting news, one of the cats brought a baby bunny into the house, which I discovered when the poor little thing actually shrieked in terror. He let it go, and we got it into a basket and outside, but he was so tiny and so shaken, I thought his heart was actually going to burst.

But I have a glass of wine and I have chocolate mice

I am very envious about the chocolate mice.

You know, I really appreciate dentistry exists, but I cannot wrap my mind around actually wanting to work on people's teeth. I can understand general medicine and surgery. But wanting to do teeth?

This brought to you by me being grossed out by the scabbing of my own gums and all the work that went into minimizing that as my teeth got ground down to nubs (UHG) and new teeth cemented over the top. All with high-tech imaging and modeling and no evil rubber goo filling my mouth for minutes upon minutes. Which is cool, but uhg, other people's spit.

I'm bargaining on the headaches leaving with my periods.

That worked for my mom. And my sister (while she was pregnant).

Thanks, TB. Sometimes I feel like the regular doctors have forgotten about me since the last time they saw me, and that the ER nurses are waiting for my next visit. It's all upside down.

I am now processing that I told the web developers I'd give them gay porn to put up on the revamped company web sites. Apparently "ita ! doesn't play chicken to lose." Sometimes bits bleed through...but I swear he brought gay porn up first.

He did also suggest we sleep together. But he meant just sleep.

I think. I mean, so that when we (all of us) wake up at 3 with project paranoia, we have something to do.

Good god, that whole conversation is sounding worse and worse now that I look back on it.

I'm bargaining on the headaches leaving with my periods.

Mirena makes periods stop. Is there any chance something like that could help you?

It's not just the cessation of menstruation that I'm anticipating, but the whole hormonal upheaval. I haven't heard as much about period suppression due to contraception making the difference on its own. But most doctors have shrugged and said "I guess waiting until menopause isn't an option?"

Hot flashes had occurred to me too, ita, but I wasn't sure if a hot flash would cause a flair up in pain, whereas a flair up in pain could cause sweating and perhaps a bit of fever. That's why I asked which came first. But I'm feeling very far beyond my depth, what with not being a doctor and all.