4dp5dt

It's been a LONG 4 days.  Work has been slow so it's not been easy to distract myself.  Evenings haven't been too bad but I'm definitely missing the gym - I've been doing some small stuff at home to keep myself active.  Unfortunately, my EDS flares up when I don't exercise regularly so I'm extra fatigued from not doing so much.  It's hard getting a balance between not overdoing it/protecting the embryo and doing enough that my body doesn't start complaining.

I've had horrible insomnia for the last few days for no apparent reason - partly because I'm thinking but, even when I manage to clear my head, I don't seem to be getting to sleep very quickly.  This morning I woke up at 6:15am to do my pessary and then had an hour to sleep before I had to get up for work... except I spent that hour trying not to throw up.  I'm trying not to read too much into it though, it's probably just the progesterone.  However, last time I had nausea but nothing so severe so maybe it's a good sign.

I also had a really sore boob earlier, then I realised there was a thread caught around my nipple piercing.  Talk about trying to find symptoms!

Every time I show any sort of symptom (nausea, tiredness etc.) one of the girls at work suggests that pregnancy causes those symptoms.  There's a few of them who know what's going on and between them they've all suggested it at least once.  The conversation usually goes something like this:

"Oo that's a symptom of pregnancy."

"Yes, it is.  It's caused by the increase in progesterone.  Do you know what also causes an increase in progesterone, and therefore the same symptoms?  These progesterone pessaries that I've been shoving in my vagina twice a day for the last week."

Okay... so I'm a bit more polite about it than that, but that's how the conversation goes in my head!

Nearly halfway though - tomorrow should be interesting, but I'll do a post when I see how it pans out.