Well I slept 10 hours last night and woke up feeling energetic (yeah!) so I quickly started to get some work done just in case that energy would be short-lived. Well a few minutes ago I started to feel like I could go take a nap, and I've only been up for a little over 2 hours! After I started to feel that way I looked at the clock and sure enough about the same amount of time since the shot has passed just like yesterday when I started to feel sleepy and weepy. I just did a search online and read that "estrogen hormones regulate the level of cortisol (hormone responsible for tiredness). If estrogen level drops, cortisol will be uncontrolled producing to crashing fatigue." Yikes. I have not had a hot flash before so maybe I am wrong to feel this way, but right now I'd rather have a hot flash than feel like I just want to crawl back into bed at 9:15am. I am a morning person. This is the time of day when I am usually the MOST productive. Well one thing I can say is I am very glad I am doing IVF in the summer while I am only teaching ONE class (two days a week). I can't imagine trying to teach four classes a day with this little energy. Well I would appreciate prayers that tonight I'll be alert and have more energy than I do right now as I am teaching from 5:00-8:20 tonight. I have so much more sympathy for women going through menopause. It's just not fun!!! Well maybe tomorrow it will be better. Maybe it's the combination of bcp plus Lupron that's making me feel this way. Today was my last bcp so I'm going to hope I will feel better tomorrow when I'm only on Lupron.
On an unrelated note, I am curious why so many cancer drugs are used for infertility? Lupron is a chemotherapy drug. It says "oncology" right on my box. The first fertility med I ever took was Tamoxifen which is primarily (almost exclusively) used to treat breast cancer. Other RE's use Femera, Arimidex, or Letrozole which are also most frequently used for breast cancer. And I was given methotrexate (another chemotherapy drug) for my ectopic pregnancy on July 5, 2005. Now that had to be a far more potent drug as the nurse had to wear this special outfit to administer it to me whereas that's not necessary for Lupron. Well I had better keep getting some work done even though I feel my brain is going to sleep on me. I didn't get anything done yesterday because I felt like I was in a fog, and I can't afford to not get any work done two days in a row.
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