FLUSH

At 2:30 am, I woke up with throbbing pain . . . in my ovaries. I got the bathroom, and waves of nausea swept over me as the blood just came pouring forth. My period has never started in the middle of the night before. I've never had such intense, stabbing pain, before, either. I took PMS medication, which never kicked in (or in other words, the pain was so severe that I couldn't tell when the meds had taken effect). I thrashed for another 2 hours in pain. It felt like organs were being ripped ruthlessly from my body. Rick finally took up the couch. I was still awake, and very nauseous but out of pain, at 7:30 when sleep finally stole over me for 50 deep minutes. Every 5 minutes I was cursing the birth control.

Sally told me that Tressa had to quit Ortho because it gave her heavy periods and bad cramping. Which, obviously, isn't good, since birth control is supposed to lighten periods and PMS.

Now, the hundred dollar question, is Dr. D going to believe me? I know my body. He doesn't. But he's the doctor. I refuse to take Ortho anymore. It's going down the toilet, little pill popped thru foil followed by little pill popped through foil.