I’ve officially abandoned the patch. The nausea was getting worse and worse, meaning I was getting weaker and weaker, finally culminating with today, a Sunday where I haven’t showered, not because I’m lazy, but because I have no faith in my ability to stay vertical or conscious long enough to get the job done.
I have removed the patch, and will not be replacing it. For once, I’m grateful that I’ve recently found myself in a state of “not gettin’ any” for the foreseeable future, just because I can’t handle the hormonal contraception right now.
I’ve asked a few people who are supposed to be “in the know” about these things, and will be making an appointment with my doctor next week, but all indications point to an estrogen reaction. Side effects should not be this severe for the average user. However, having taken Depo Provera for the past 6-ish years, my body’s been lacking any estrogen for most of that time (which is what contributes to the osteoporosis risk), and dumping a bunch of it in at once makes the body very unhappy.
Literature suggests that it’ll take about 3 months to adjust to the change. I’m hoping my body will take care of that process on its own in a much less volatile manner.
I’m hoping I’ll be back up to snuff in a couple of days. In the meantime, enjoy the new design thanks to my dear, dear Kyndra. It’s almost as gorgeous and divine as she is.
Eeek, the new design does not look good in my browser. It scrolls to the right significantly.
Firefox 5 on Win XP, for the record.
And good on you for taking charge of your hormones. You go, girl! 🙂
firefox makes my brain hurt!
Will you take a screenshot for me Devon?
I remember coming off Depo, and I was an emotional nightmare… Good luck sweetie!
And you’re welcome!
Sure, no problem! Sending it via email…
For the record, it does the exact same thing in IE 6. The screenshot would be the same.
Looks fine here (Firefox 1.0, Linux).
Devon, what exactly is “Firefox 5”? The latest version of Firefox is 1.01, I believe…
It’s supposed to look like that Devon.
I guess with my resolution being higher, it doesn’t scroll to the side for me.
I could make the image and container a little smaller I suppose.
Chris, I misread the help/about. It said Firefox/5.0 and I thought that was the version.
And my bad, peanut.. just not used to scrolling sideways to read the blogroll and links and stuff.
I didn’t realize 1024×768 was a low resolution, either! 🙂
And I think if I showed you the top, you’d see what I mean. New screenshot incoming.
There.. a little more squished.. I may play around with the width of the side bar and all that good stuff over the next few days.
Should look ok on 1024!
Okay, nevermind. It’s all better now. 🙂
looks good peechie 🙂
ack, i’m looking at your site from work (IE 6, win 98) and it looks like bad! The picture to the left takes up way too much room and I have to scroll too far to the right. It just looks distorted.
col: IE has notoriously poor CSS support, which is probably why it looks stupid. Unfortunatly, Microsoft probably won’t be doing much to improve it with the future release of IE 7.
peechie: If you really want it to be viewable in all browsers, maybe you should have a separate IE page that’s just simple, and keep this real page for browsers that work properly. That’s if you care, of course. I don’t :).
Oh, and back on topic, yay birth control 😛
It’s viewable in all browsers!
Folks with smaller screen resolutions just have to scroll to the right to see everything.
Not the end of the world. Annoying yes, broken, no.
I could have, instead of the image taking up all the space, the container float to the right and cover the image if it doesn’t fit on the screen. *shrug*
I don’t mind the scrolling. People can deal with it!