Lupron #8 today

update for the past week:

Day 3 on lupron felt really funny for me. I woke up and drank a bottle of kombucha (fermented probiotic tea) with breakfast went to work. and felt funny at work. not sure if the kombucha tea was to blame. but i decided to write down some words about how i felt: disassociated, detached, faint, unaware, physically tense, mentally relaxed, crampy, premenstrual, like i'm not breathing deep enough.
the eczema (dry skin) on my fingers bothered me that night. and my chest began to itch too. I think i was having some sort of reaction.
it wasn't alarming to me. and it went away after that day.
I dont remember that happening during last donation. maybe i had an intense testosterone surge then. or maybe it was the crazy fermented tea. or a general lupron reaction. probably the latter.

shots 4-8 went fine. and 5 days later, i feel fine and theres no sign of the eczema or freaky feelings.

i've been alternating from right outer thigh to left outer thigh for the shots. theres no soreness. it hasn't affected my social life too much. i went to a show and brought the lupron in a refrigerated lunchbox, and excused myself from a conversation at the party to give myself the injection in private. i find the shots sometimes make my skin itch a bit near the injection site just afterwards. i think its because i dont wait for the alcohol to dry completely.

I was having menstrual cramps earlier in the week. and i remembered that i would normally have been on my period then. but they delayed my period one week. i had my last birth control pill on the 19th. and began spotting yesterday. my period was expected today, and it started. I still have to do daily 15U of lupron until the end of the week, when it will lower to 10U and then i'll start the follicle stimulating hormones. my estradiol level appointment is in a couple days. i'll update again then.