My mind was quiet yesterday. I even felt a feeling of peace, opening out of possibilities. So strange to have such extremes of emotion. I spent the afternoon and evening working on the border of a baby afghan and listening to a recorded book, then slept for almost eleven hours.
I talked with a lot of friends this weekend -- people from my online support group. Two of them pointed out that my mood swings have been happening roughly on a monthly basis, and suggested that they could be linked to my cycle. One of them even found me a local gynecologist, at a hospital I do not hate, who specializes in menopause, perimenopause, and bioidentical hormones. I was able to make an appointment with her for December 2.
I know that there are two other possibilities -- that the mood swings are either linked to my Borrelia infection (Borrelia symptoms flare about every 28 days) or markers of an incipent mental illness. Hard to think about either of those, since in the case of Bb the worsening mood swings would seem to suggest further progression of the infection.
a Baltimorean with Chronic Lyme Disease
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