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[tylik]

So yesterday I felt awful. Horribly hungry at odd intervals, and without much relationship to what I'd eaten. Poor temperature regulation. Feeling very emotionally fragile. (Particularly tough when I had a pretty full day planned out.) I had taken the gabapentin late (early morning rather than late night) so I figure it was related to that... but while I do sometimes get anxiety weirdness along with nerve tweakage in my cervical and thoracic spine, the pain went away quickly, but the other stuff did not.

Let me just emphasize the suck. I knew that this was physical in origin (so for instance, I knew that I didn't really want to drop out of grad school ;-) ) even if I didn't know the mechanism, but I was tired, hungry, crabby, lonely and generally wretched.

Ended up going to bed early, getting a lot of sleep, waking up feeling better... but still kind of fragile and with the weird food cravings. After calc hour, I noticed, finally, that my breasts were also sore.

And suddenly it clicked. This is hormonal. This is also a bit early for it to be PMS (and my PMS is generally mild). So I weighed myself... and sure enough, I'd dropped a bit over two kilos in the last week.

Which is kind of weird by itself, but I've been busy and stressed and eating healthfully but kind of meagerly, so I guess no particular surprise. And I have weight I'm willing to lose, though I don't want to lose it that quickly. Anyhow, this is a known issue. If I drop weight quickly, my estrogen levels go up (it is assumed because fat stores estrogen, though really I was hoping this effect was more limited in scope...) and I feel weird and my breasts get tender. And often bigger. Oh, please, no.

Is it just that my body is weird, or is it mostly that I monitor it closely?