Inner Space: Egg Freezing, Health Updates + Things I've (Re)Learned Recently
+ mantras I'm using daily
[A few short weeks after writing this post, I got some more concrete answers on what’s been going on with my health. Newest update here!]
As you may or may not have caught wind of via some recent IG shares, I’ve been dealing with some pretty intense health issues since freezing my eggs in early December. What I think was basically a perfect storm of things sent my gut into a tailspin: Obviously the high-dose of follicle-stimulating and luteinizing hormones themselves. My immune system was down with a bad head cold at the start of the egg-freezing process. The fertility clinic had me on low-dose Prednisone (without my knowledge - they told me it was an anti-inflammatory and I didn’t recognize the name in Spanish). I was told Advil was okay to take for the headaches from my head cold (Note to self/everyone: don’t take Advil when on Prednisone. Actually, just don’t take Advil in general.) A round of antibiotics for a UTI after the egg retrieval. Way too much sugar/dairy/gluten/inflammatory foods around the holidays. All the stress of the process whilst simultaneously apartment hunting in a city with a very competitive market.
