crushed by the crimson wave...
my cramps are gonna kill me. seriously. they've never been this bad. I got a total of 4 hours sleep last night b/c they were so bad. I couldn't go to sleep b/c it hurt and when they stopped long enough for me to doze off it would only be 30 or 40 minutes before they got so bad i woke up. This is quite possibly the worse cycle of my life (with exception to the first, which was absolute agony). Finally when i woke up around 6:30 i called nat and begged her to go get me midol since i was immobilized and near tears. She came through (as always) and I got a full 90 minutes of uninterrupted sleep before I had to wake up. I took 2 around 7:30 before I got my glorious hour and a half of sleep and then another 2 around 10:30 before heading to the lab b/c i was starting to feel the cramps again. Turns out you're only supposed to take 2 every six hours and the maximum daily doseage is 8. This would explain why i was feeling gittery and odd, but also the reason there was NO pain. Then 1 pm rolled around and the cramps came in but i was still ahead of the recommended doseage so i moaned and lulled through the rest of my day. by the time i left at 5 i couldn't move faster than a slow quasimodo-like shuffle and i decided that 5 hours between each dose was plenty. I'm going to OD on midol. how pathetic.