About time!

For once, I am genuinely pleased to see my period show up (well, given that I've already POAS and know I'm not pregnant!)...  My spotting started yesterday and today it got going proper (3 days late). I'd already done my 0.1mg downregging shot this morning, so I'll have to go to the clinic tomorrow for them to show me how to halve it using the prepared syringes I have.

So I guess I'll count tomorrow as CD1... or should I count today? I read somewhere that CD1 is the first day that you wake up bleeding (which sounds so dramatic, doesn't it?).  Will it make any difference? I go back on CD5 for bloods, baseline ultrasound and presumably to start my stim meds. Part of me wants to go sooner rather than later to get going with the next step... what do you think?

Would it be wrong to measure my nipples?

Well, would it? This week has been a new low in symptom-spotting. Let's be clear now that I'm on CD7. And yet in the last couple of days I've actually been questioning whether I am actually pregnant and my last period wasn't actually a real period. And the symptoms that I've been spotting?

Well I've been quite tired (ignoring the fact that I have a cold which is no doubt making me feel a bit off-colour), my last period was fairly short and light (ignoring the fact that all my periods have been short and light since I came off the pill) and one day, my nipples were looking huge (ignoring the fact that they are generally pretty big - too big for my liking, but that's another post...).

So, in a scientific manner (did you know I used to be a research chemist?), I'm thinking I could measure my nipples and record the data to track changes. But I can't decide whether a straight ruler would suffice or whether I need to use a piece of string to follow the contours, then measure against a ruler... decisions, decisions...

Or I could just go and lie down in a darkened room and try to reconnect with reality...