I have officially been on lupron for 2 months now. For the last six weeks I have had terrible hot flashes which has lead to insomnia and I have been pretty miserable. I sleep for about 3 to 4 hours and then I am up every 30 minutes...on fire. The routine is that I have a hot flash which wakes me up, I cool down, I get chills because of the sweating and then I pull the blanket back on me and try to relax my way back to sleep and then the cycle starts over again. It is now 6am and I am awake not because I am really awake, but because I am tired of fighting sleeping.
The new drugs that my doctor prescribed did not help the problem and they actually added on a new side effect of headaches. When I take the medicine I deal with not only being hot but I have to endure a headache most of the night. I gave the medicine one week and I can not deal with the extra side effects since the sleeping has not gotten better.
On a good note...I have been getting into scrapbooking. I am almost done adding pictures to my wedding scrapbook and I have completed a scrapbook for a friend. I am working on another scrap book for a friend that is getting married. My parents got me a cricut cutter as an early birthday gift...and it is awesome. I am finding that once you start with the basic things you want to be able to do more and more means more money. The cricut is a cool machine, however it is an expensive toy. I am thinking of starting to make cards and maybe selling them at this local arts and crafts place where my mom has her quilts. Even at $1 a piece I would be making a little money and I would be able to put it toward more stuff for my scrapbooking.
Today our neice for Colorado is coming to visit for the week and we are very excited about having her. She is 9 and has never been in the northeast, so we have a lot of things planned. I am hoping to be able to stay in DC after we pick her up from the airport, but if it is sweltering hot then we are just going to head back up the mountains. The heat makes for a miserable day in DC.
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