Hello, Side Effects.

Today is day 4 of my Gonal F injections and the side effects are starting to kick in.  I'm not sure what's actually side effects and what is unrelated (or related to my EDS instead) but here's what's going on at the moment:

Tiredness 
Waking up this morning was unbelievably hard.  I had to physically force my eyes to stay open.  It's been a long time since I've felt so soul destroyingly tired!  This is made so much worse by the fact that I've given up caffeine for the purpose of increasing my fertility.  I'm not a caffeine addict but I am partial to a little boost on days when I'm feeling really tired.  Trying to fight through without a pick me up was hard this morning but some Lucozade and lots of water seemed to do the trick by about 11:30am.

Cramps
These are still real mild (less painful than my normal menstrual cramps) but I have had some definite cramps in my lower abdomen/groin area throughout the day today.

Bloating
I feel really bloated and gassy - honestly, I've spent most of the day trying not to break wind in the office!  I expected the bloating but not in that way.

Sciatica
I was off my feet for a little while in June with sciatica and it seems to have come back with a vengeance over the last couple of days.  I'm not sure if this is related at all but either way it's something I could do without.

All in all the side effects are mild and really not too troublesome at the moment, so hopefully that's the way they stay.

On a side note, for no apparent reason today's injection really hurt - I got ALS to do it for me as, although I'm happy to do it myself, it's a bit of an awkward angle.  For some reason though, it stung more going in, it hurt when he injected the liquid and it even hurt coming out.  ALS is putting it down to him trying to do it on the left side of my stomach with his right hand so it was an odd angle for him too - maybe I'll just stick to doing it myself from now on.  He was very apologetic though and it was still far from unbearable!

We had a little look at the injections that start Wednesday morning (we have to mix the medication for these) and they look pretty complicated.  Unfortunately to get them at the same time every day they're going to have to be done at 6am (as we have to leave the house at 6:15am on Friday to get to our appointment in Sheffield for 8am).  So on Wednesday I'm going to have to get up an hour earlier than normal just to jab myself... not my idea of a good start to the day!  But it will all be worth it :)