1 Jun
So I switched to the patch back in early spring because the gel was just not fitting into my mornings anymore. Kept forgetting it, kept rushing, kept feeling like I was managing a whole extra project before coffee. The first couple weeks on the patch were fine, mostly. One afternoon where I felt genuinely strange and irritable in a way I could not pin on anything, and I was checking the edge of the patch every time I got out of the shower like it was a parking meter. By week five something shifted. I stopped waking up at odd hours feeling overheated and annoyed at the ceiling. I still have hot flushes during the day, not gone, but shorter. The bigger thing is that I finished two books last month, which sounds small but I had not been able to stay with a story for more than a few pages without drifting. My garden is also getting more attention because I am actually sleeping enough to want to be outside. I have a follow-up in six weeks and I am keeping a little notes document because I know myself and I will walk in there and say everything is fine when I have forgotten half of it.