OK so I had a dream I did a HPT last night. First I saw the base line. Then next to it, a pink line, then next to that, a blue line. I didn't know what the blue line meant, but I was thinking (in my dream) that it meant negative, and I was trying to figure out if the negative and positive canceled each other out. I was confused and then I woke up.
Weight-wise my body is doing bizarre things. I normally weigh around 120 at 5'4." <Fighting urge to go into long rant and history about weight and my preferred weight and why it sucks to get old because it's hard to lose weight and how I can't eat carbs like I used to...but let's not go there.> Anyhoo...when I was taking DHEA, and then HGH, my weight spiked to 128. <OK we'll go there just a tad: I haven't weighed that much since five years ago when I was in a relationship that was going nowhere and was unsure about what to do with my life.> But that was emotional eating. This was not -- this was drugs doing funky things to my body. I was not thrilled about it, but in the spirit of TTC, I didn't let myself get too worked up about it. (Other than being pissed I got rid of all of my "fat clothes" in the hopes I'd never need them again -- mental note to never do that again.) Since Saturday, which was Transfer Day, my weight has come back to a more normal 122. I have been nauseous but have been careful to eat enough calories (even dipped into Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey last night), so it's not from lack of eating. It's just bizarre.
Also and maybe related, my heart rate has been around 80. I have a blood pressure cuff at home so I've been testing it. It's normally around 50. I'm thinking the HGH boosters that I'm taking are telling my body to make more blood. I can't find anyone on the Internet that has these same two things during their 2ww -- high heart rate and weight loss. Which I guess makes me a freak of nature. So if anyone has heard of anyone having these (esp. the heart rate), please let me know.
Motivated by the urge to know when I can test, I did an estimate of when the HCG should leave my system, and it seems that there will be a bit left at my beta on Tuesday. HCG has a half-life of 24 hours, so half the dosage leaves your body every day. To figure out what's left, you halve the amount every day, as in: if you took 10,000 on Friday, you would have 5000 in your system Saturday, 2500 Sunday, and so on. Here's my calculation.
MON – 10,000
TUES – 5000
WED – 2,500
THURS – 1,250
FRI – 625 + 1000 BOOSTER = 1626
SAT – 312.5 + 500 + 1000 BOOSTER = 1812.5
SUN – 156 + 250 + 500 = 906
MON – 78 + 125 + 250 = 453
TUES – 39 X+ 62.5 + 250 + 1000 BOOSTER = 1226.5
WED – 19.5 + 31 + 62.5 + 500 = 613
THURS – 10 + 15.5 + 31 + 250 = 307.5
FRI – 5 + 8 + 15.5 + 125 = 154
SAT – 2.5 + 4 + 8 + 62.5 = 72
SUN – 1 + 2 + 4 + 31 = 38
MON – 0 + 1 + 2 + 15.5 = 18.5
TUES - 0 + 0 + 1 + 8 = 9
No HPTs for me now. Unless it's just to play pretend. Which admittedly would be fun, but brings to mind that story of Elizabeth Smart, that girl that was kidnapped in Utah six years ago, and her female captor that carried around a baby doll like it was her baby.
