no news is good news, maybe

I got the results of my lab tests back from my doctor yesterday. My bloodwork is all normal. So what this means for my recent early periods, I don’t know. Stress? Hormonal fluctuation? At least I’m not pregnant (confirmed by the pee test) but my doctor did bring up the word “miscarriage” which kind of freaked me out, although that’s supposed to be accompanied by severe cramps, which I did not have. So that likely wasn’t what’s going on.

I am supposed to just keep an eye on my cycles and if it happens again, they’ll look into it further.

In other news, I mentioned to my doctor that I am going to Belize in a few months, and in addition to prescribing me seasickness patches and malaria drugs, she suggested I get a tetanus shot. Which, conveniently, she could give me that very day. Cool, I thought, that saves me a trip back here later. But then she mentioned that the shot also contained the pertussis vaccine (a.k.a. whooping cough), and that set off vague little warning bells in the back of my head. I didn’t get the shot, and instead called my mom, who did confirm that when I was little and got a DPT vaccine (diptheria, tetanus, pertussis), the “P” part of it made me very sick. I had to get a booster immunization for school, so the next time they gave it to me in two half-doses, which still made me sick but not as badly. Anyway, my doctor had to special-order a tetanus shot without pertussis in it for me.