wow, is this really shot 6?

last night's shot location got a little pink and puffed up a bit like a mosquito bite. i didn't scratch it, and it went away in an hour or so.

today's shot kinda itched, but didn't swell up.

the past couple shots i've been taking the vial of lupron out of the fridge and warming it in my hands for a couple minutes before giving myself the medication. i wonder if thats why it itches? tomorrow i'll shoot it cold like i did the first few days. 

something else i noticed, too, was that when i put the syringe into the bottle to pull up some lupron, every time i push or pull from that bottle, i'm adjusting a pressure in that bottle. the rubber cap is very strong and only a needle can push through, so the pressure doesn't get to escape unless i let it.  The nurse told me to pull the plunger back before inserting the needle into the vial of lupron. Once the tip of the needle is inside, then push the air back into the vial as far as the plunger will go. Then take out the dosage needed. So i had been doing that. Pulling the plunger back all the way, and pushing that much air into the vial. but last night and tonight, when i  had the vial upside down to fill the syringe with the proper amount of medication, i pulled the needle out of the vial while it was still upside down, and a tiny bit of lupron shot out at me from the rubber seal top! the pressure had built up so much in there that it was able to project out the liquid. not much came out, but now i realize that pushing an entire plunger-full of air into the vial when i'm only pulling out 15 units, is a bad idea. 

tomorrow i'm only pulling the plunger back to the 15 and pushing 15 units of air into the vial to replace the medication i'll pull out. or even not put any air in there. i dont know what the pressure in there is, but i bet its higher than it should be. 

I should really call this the TMI (too much information) Blog. i think i'll make that a subhead.

what else... side effects? maybe? 

speaking of TMI, i've noticed that my sexual arousal level has gone down. but then when stimulated, the sensations i feel are different. instead of the pleasure concentrating on the place of the stimulation, i feel it in the entire vulva. And its really intense. thats not normal for me. I'm not complaining. but then again, i'm currently abstinent by contract, not by choice. so i kinda AM complaining. i wonder if that sexual reaction will stay when i'm not on crazy egg donation drugs? i hope so.

Since i stopped taking the femcon fe birth control pills on the 29th i'm supposed to have my period by friday. they say i may or may not, but if i do, i wont have to get my estradiol levels checked at the doctor's office on the 6th.