Days like these....

[icarus]

Ha. I have tiger stripes.

Getting my hair dyed is too expensive and I'm never doing this again. But for the summer, just this once, I have stripes. Like a tabby cat. I'd post photos but 1) the camera battery won't recharge and I can't figure out what's wrong, 2) I don't post photos of myself anyway.

Now, if my cramps would just settle down and I could please stop feeling like crap, I would be much more pleased about this. I realized my general discomfort is making me see the dark side of everything.

I'm having doubts about doing the summer language intensive, which starts tomorrow. My funding hasn't come through because of a screw-up with my FAFSA (the system didn't want to take the real numbers last January and now I have to turn in all this paperwork, which means I have to dig up my tax forms, and they're buried). So the school's asking two grand that was supposed to be covered by financial aid. It's a language intensive and I'm beginning to get the idea that this is going to be brutally hard and take up all the time that I should probably be spending on my thesis this summer. Yes, I got accepted to the honors program. I find myself less than happy at the prospect, largely because I got railroaded into a topic I don't want to do. They critiqued my writing heavily (and well they should have, it was terrible) but the research they liked and based on that they gave me a 3.9. *splutter*

I've had one week off since finals, school starts tomorrow, and wildernessguru took a week off at the same time--which should be great, but in actuality turned out to be him taking much of my time on the computer. We had a wonderful time rolling around in the bedroom Friday night but this damn period and my general bitchiness cut off anything else this weekend. I was supposed to go to a public talk by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and I feel like shit. I didn't get much done on Out Of Bounds and this one scene won't bloody well cooperate. I finished the mcshep_match fic and am quite happy with the story but I have to wait and--

*grumble, grumble, grumble*

You get the idea. On cramps, the whole world is a terrible, terrible place. I'm drinking beer to deal with the backache. Send chocolate. Or recs. Read anything good in kink_bingo lately?

Comments

[bluemoon02.livejournal.com]

Cramps or horribly misery making. I'm lucky in that mine are either there, full on, wrenching, sobbing type cramps, or they don't bother. But the few times they've just rumbled away in the background, persistently, it has been very demoralising. This is generally my answer to most things, but have you tried homeopathy? Should be able to help with the cramps and the miseries.

[nicocoer.livejournal.com]

*huggles*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Is there a homeopathic remedy for cramps? Or I guess it would be plural, remedies.

I get very grumpy around my period. I can't tell if it's the cramps, hormones, or if I have hemochromotosis and it's a build-up of iron in my blood that makes me a pisser around this time.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Thank you. The worst has passed, fortunately. My first two days are... gllrgh... but it levels out after that. It's gotten worse over the last ten years or so, which I understand happens to most people.

[bluemoon02.livejournal.com]

The general all-purpose remedy for period cramps is magnesium tissue salts and getting more zinc in your diet. However, it's best to actually see a homeopath regularly, because there are so many factors that go into deciding what you should or shouldn't take. Some homeopaths operate a drop-in clinic, so if there's an alternate health centre, or you can find an online register for homeopaths in your state/area, that's the best way to go.

[bluemoon02.livejournal.com]

Oh, and grumpy I'm not sure about, because I always just cry at everything. But if you get tearful and self-pitying, a dose of pulsatilla (homeopathic remedy should be available from chemist or healthfood shop) one before bed and one in the morning should clear it up. I'm a pulsatilla personality, so it's pretty much what they stick me on for whatever. Pulsatilla people cry at the drop of a hat and need constant reassurance that they are fab to get through the day.

If you feel like self-diagnosing, the best handbook on homeopathy at home I've found is by Dr Locke. My aunt used to swear by it!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Sounds good. I really do need to find a good homeopath, for a variety of reasons. Nice to find someone knowledgeable here. *grins at you*

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*shares her chocolate stash* me too, hun, me too.