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Angela

28 May

eight weeks in, what has actually changed

Eight weeks ago I started on a low-dose progesterone alongside the oestrogen I had already been taking for a few months. I want to write down what happened because I spent a long time reading posts like this before I made the change and found most of them either too positive or too vague. The first two weeks were unremarkable except for one bad night around day ten where I felt restless and could not settle on the train home. I nearly wrote the whole thing off then. By week five my sleep had changed enough that I noticed it on Monday mornings. I was arriving at work less depleted. I still have the same commute, the same desk, the same inbox. But I stopped losing the thread of conversations in meetings, which had been happening enough that I had started writing everything down as a workaround. What has not changed: my cycle is still irregular, I am still short with my family on tired evenings, and my weight has not shifted. I have a review in three weeks. I am keeping a short log so I do not walk in and say everything is fine when it is only mostly fine.

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