Constipation, Thy Name is Riomet

Two words to summarize how I feel right about now, now that I am suffering the direct opposite effect I had w/the Metformin XR:



The non-Cliffnotes version:

Every day when I finally do "make," I feel as if I were forcibly birthing a big man's fist (replete w/extra pointy pinky ring) through my bungus. My poor O-ring is being TORN ASSunder!

Ravenous.

I don't get it. And by "it," I mean my appetite. Today I'm just ravenous.

Breakfast:

2 16 oz cups of coffee
1/2 pint milk
2 hard boiled eggs
Bagel w/buttah

Took Riomet after breakfast

Snack:

Cheese stick
10 black cherries

Lunch:

Trader Joes Caesar Chicken salad (w/avocado added by me)
Cheese stick
Ice tea

Took Actos after lunch

Snack:

3 Italian style cookies (the nice ones, w/the jelly in the middle)

Snack:

Banana

Snack:

Cheese stick

THEN WHY THE EFF AM I HUNGRY?

I have one more snackie packed, a nectarine. I'm afraid to eat it. It's only 4:39. I get out at 6. If I eat it now, and I continue to build this ravenousness, I don't know how I can be held responsible for my actions should I run out of snackables!

FUCK YOU, PANCREAS! FUCK YOU MALFUNCTIONING OVARIES! FUCK YOU, FUCKED UP GENES!! Shut the fuck up and get in mah belleh.

(This is what happens when I forego a hot lunch, I suppose. I SUPPOSE.)

Day 37

So far so good. I'm continuing to tolerate the Riomet well, with a minimum of gastric distress, in comparison to the sudden onset "explosivity" I suffered while on Metformin XR (2500 mg daily).

I'm up to 1500 mg for a daily dose of the Riomet (and 15 mg of Actos at lunch), and so far so good.

Last night I even noticed something different about my skin/flesh: it's warm to hot. Not regular body temp, but warm to the touch. Not feverish either. Like I've had some minor physical exertion.

I am planning on getting my blood drawn on the 19th; hopefully it'll register some microscopic change w/my androgens.