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Aug. 12th, 2024 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavshark week is always a little funny to me with how it presents, here.
i've taken to calling it 'russian roulette week' because of how weirdly regular the 3-4 days it is before. i swear, literally every single time, my body decides to throw exactly one, and only one, of the weirdass symptoms listed below entirely at random.
* lower back aches in a very specific spot, like, specific vertabrae-type-of-spot
* phantom pain from a fall (from when i screwed up my elbow earlier this year)
* phantom wrist pain (ditto)
* phantom pain from [choose-your-adventure-of-specific surgery/joint]
* massive surgery-level overall bone inflammation spike, which is different than the above in the sense that i can tell inflamation-pain from just 'your fucked up joints creaking' pain (thankfully rare, this hurt worse than anything else holy fuck. i can tell it's bone b/c my replaced hip doesn't hurt but the unreplaced hip was on fire especially. and it's the exact same kind of pain i was... basically in my whole childhood lul)
* temporary acne because fuck me i guess lol????
* spike in libido (the only actual common haflway decent symptom i've heard lol)
???????? what gives....
it's predictable enough to the point when i get a very specific flare, i check the paper calendar first and go 'ah here it comes'. (sometimes i'll get mild-to-moderate cramps later when it actually happens, but compared to hip replacement pain or the other bullshit i deal with it's pretty doable in the scheme of things. take motrin, lay down if needed, etc. i'd rather have that than a migrane any day.)
the even funnier thing is that mom gives me grief about shark week because she starts spotting about the same time/earlier even if she's been in menopause for years and years. it's not cancer/anything abnormal on her side (we've checked), but apparently the synching thing is real.
#bodies amirite
i've taken to calling it 'russian roulette week' because of how weirdly regular the 3-4 days it is before. i swear, literally every single time, my body decides to throw exactly one, and only one, of the weirdass symptoms listed below entirely at random.
* lower back aches in a very specific spot, like, specific vertabrae-type-of-spot
* phantom pain from a fall (from when i screwed up my elbow earlier this year)
* phantom wrist pain (ditto)
* phantom pain from [choose-your-adventure-of-specific surgery/joint]
* massive surgery-level overall bone inflammation spike, which is different than the above in the sense that i can tell inflamation-pain from just 'your fucked up joints creaking' pain (thankfully rare, this hurt worse than anything else holy fuck. i can tell it's bone b/c my replaced hip doesn't hurt but the unreplaced hip was on fire especially. and it's the exact same kind of pain i was... basically in my whole childhood lul)
* temporary acne because fuck me i guess lol????
* spike in libido (the only actual common haflway decent symptom i've heard lol)
???????? what gives....
it's predictable enough to the point when i get a very specific flare, i check the paper calendar first and go 'ah here it comes'. (sometimes i'll get mild-to-moderate cramps later when it actually happens, but compared to hip replacement pain or the other bullshit i deal with it's pretty doable in the scheme of things. take motrin, lay down if needed, etc. i'd rather have that than a migrane any day.)
the even funnier thing is that mom gives me grief about shark week because she starts spotting about the same time/earlier even if she's been in menopause for years and years. it's not cancer/anything abnormal on her side (we've checked), but apparently the synching thing is real.
#bodies amirite
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