Another opportunity for hypochondria

So I had another unpleasant night, much like this one. Except I started feeling hot, face and arms glowing, before I went to bed—but I was actually cold inside, to the point of shivering. Some digestive difficulty, too, before I went to bed. Had immense trouble falling asleep, due to reproductive aging worry.

Vivid unpleasant dreams, woke up in the middle of the night with stomach pain, face and arms still hot, but wasn't sweaty until I woke up for real. Temperature upon waking: 98.5. (I've never charted, so I don't know how this fits in—when I take my temperature later in the day, it's always 97 point something low). My face was still glowing in the morning, too, and for that matter, it is now.

So: is this food poisoning? The secret common element is the salmon I had for dinner on my bad night last month, parallel to the raw tuna on Saturday and mussels on Sunday this time... perhaps somewhat undercooked mussels. And we don't get a lot of seafood around here, overall.

Or is it something worse? Last time was mid-follicular; this time's mid-luteal. And I didn't get hot flashes on Lupron. But, does any of that matter?

I want to get yelled at by Tam's nurse:

Here is a direct quote from the nurse at my OB's office in regards to my LP..... "A lot of times when a couple is suffering from male infertility the woman tries to invent things that are wrong with her because she thinks that it will decrease the guilt her husband is feeling and also she thinks that if something is wrong with her too she can take away some of the blame.....Tammy, you're fine!!!!" as she looks deep onto my eyes and recites the last sentence very slowly.

Except I don't think Beaker feels especially guilty, so it's not that I'm trying to take the pressure off him. It's that I'm so afraid that nothing might ever ever work.

Comments

[Rana]

Ooh. That does sound like food poisoning. Ugh -- I hope you feel better.

On the temperature thing, the problem is that temp is in some ways a very subjective thing. If you're in the last half of your cycle, you're running warmer in general, so it takes more to make you feel feverish (i.e. warmer than normal) than it does in the first half. The temp you cite seems fine to me. (I've felt feverish at times when the temp registered 36 C, which is approximately 97F, and just fine at 38C (100F).)

/lecture (which I know you just wanted to hear...)

In any case, I hope you feel well soon. :)

[noether]

Based on my experience, it isn't food poisoning unless it involves much vomiting throughout the night to the point of dry heaves. Feeling like you are going to pass out in the shower the next morning is also consistent. In any event, I hope you feel better.

[Emma Jane]

Now, I know everyone is dying to know what happened.

I felt slightly feverish the rest of the day. My temperature hovered in the high 98's. No further tummy troubles.

The next morning, I awoke feeling fine. Took my temperature: 99.

So then I stopped taking my temperature (I promise).