Weird symptoms

This is turning into one heck of a first week of my cycle.

Last Sunday and Monday were spotting days, Tuesday was abdominal pain, Wednesday was nausea and abdominal pain, Thursday I actually felt a little better, Friday more abdominal pain and a migraine, Saturday was horrible left-side pain and exhaustion along with some serious bloating, and today I almost fainted and can hardly get off the couch. Oh, and I also had some more abdominal pain.

What is with me?

I can't help but wonder if the endo is back. I mean, all this abdominal pain cannot be just normal cycle stuff, can it? If I had to rate it on a scale of one to ten (and keep in mind I am a former [hopefully former] endo girl who experienced level 10 pain all the time), I would say it is a two or three. Except yesterday morning was probably a seven. But I should also note that I took advil several times this week, something I don't normally do, which shows it was worse than normal.

But then I wonder whether perhaps my medication - or lack thereof - is causing the wackiness. I was low on T3 capsules this past week so I went down to one a day, and three weeks ago I went without my bromocriptine. So not exactly compelling evidence, but it could possibly be related to the exhaustion and feeling faint. But to abdominal pain? I doubt it.

The near-fainting spell happened today at Mass (actually Fertile Thoughts was sitting right behind me, so she would have witnessed the whole thing!). The few times I have felt faint at church (which hasn't happened in a year) have been when I was kneeling and today was no different. What is it about that? Anyways, it passed and I started feeling better after going up for communion, but have continued to feel out of it all day.

Another interesting symptom - I think I lost the ability to taste salt the last few days. At first I thought it was the food, and as I was cooking I just kept adding an obscene amount of salt to things. Things just didn't taste right, like they were missing that bite that salt gives things. Then last night, after asking my husband about it, I realized that it wasn't the food, it was me. My mother said the inability to taste salt, and the desire to keep adding it to food, could be a thyroid issue. Apparently my uncle had that problem for years. So if that is true, then I guess you could blame the fact that I took only one T3 capsule a day this past week. But I never had salt issues before the T3! And I was hoping to go off of it soon. Now it might actually be helping me? Ahh!

Just another question to ask my doctor. The list is growing long. 

Anyways, I can't help but think of all those times I've asked God to reveal anything else that may be wrong with me. Perhaps that is exactly what he is doing.