Right around the time I was dealing with this and this and going to a neurologist and taking anti-inflammatories and muscle relaxers and so forth, I was convinced that my ectopic pregnancy was related to becoming unexpectedly pregnant while on those types of meds.
Then, today, I read this vindicating article that basically says that NSAIDs are correlated with a higher risk of miscarriage!
(I totally knew it!)
On a very related note, Google should really do a corporate acquisition of McDonald's ancient "over a million served" slogan, and change it to "millions upon millions aided in self-diagnosis"!Because here's the thing: it's not too big of a digital leap to go from searching "hormones migraines" to "estrogen dominance migraines" to "estrogen dominance B6" to "estrogen dominance migraines luteal phase".
Not if you're me, that is. And I just happen to be me, so, you know. (Remember when I was convinced I had LPD, but turned out to be pregnant? Yeah, um, that was fun.)
Here's my theory-slash-self-diagnosis: I am estrogen dominant. Which makes me vitamin B deficient. Which makes me have low progesterone. Which makes my luteal phases short (or, in the case of - oh, right now - practically non-existent).
So, I have been taking 100 mg of B6 every day for. . . (checks calendar) . . . 28 days now. Which may or may not be helping with the progesterone-slash-vitamin B deficiency. Which may or may not be the reason I have been spotting and/or bleeding for 23 days, including a particularly crampy period. Which may or may not be causing my current (4-days and counting) migraine headache.
Such is the life of a self-diagnoser.
Next up? Progesterone cream! (I've even started taking basal body temps to help me with that one. . .)
~Nichole
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