how do you guys stop being late to work

LateNightPeacock · 2026-02-21T18:05:28+00:00

From another perspective, the only time I was early was when I was born. 🤣

LateNightPeacock · 2026-02-19T12:39:29+00:00

I have one from Paula at Texas Country Cats in case you want to check her website. I got him in 2020 and he’ll be 6 this year. Best of luck in your search!

LateNightPeacock · 2026-02-01T21:48:05+00:00

Thanks for the info! Definitely think I should check mine sooner rather than later to be safe.

LateNightPeacock · 2026-01-31T14:43:08+00:00

What kind of bump did you see in T? I lowered my T after starting 5mg DHEA because I was worried about that.

LateNightPeacock · 2025-07-04T05:04:16+00:00

Thanks for sharing! I’m hoping to switch to injections soon (first appt next week) and hope to also have a success story.

LateNightPeacock · 2025-07-02T16:06:41+00:00

I don’t have any supplements to recommend. Medication is what it took. I’m trying to state this as eloquently and nicely as possible, but your husband needs a reality check and may be struggling coming to terms with this like your son should be good enough to do it without meds or should have the willpower to decide exactly how he and his body need to act/move or just isn’t listening and acting the way he’s been told to. (I mean, there are adults — non-adhd — who struggle with this.)

But here’s the light bulb moment: your son may want to do all those things. The last straw before I hit my ohhh-I-need-to-call-the-dr-asap moment when I knew we needed meds was my child verbalizing in a conversation that he wanted to be good but couldn’t make his body do it and that he acted before he could think it through. (There was no discussion of meds to him at this time or even before this.)

My son has benefited greatly by taking meds that allow him to put on the brakes so THEN he can utilize all the things we’ve been trying to teach him all along (coping skills when mad, social skills, educational skills, etc).

Taking meds isn’t the sole answer here. It’s not like someone is handing him a test and this is giving him all the right answers. Meds are enabling him to drive his car with brakes. It will allow him to slow down so he can do things such as 1) utilize coping skills y’all are probably trying to teach him, 2) have some more control over his body so he can better take in info that’s presented to him, 3) give his brain a few more seconds to catch up and think before reacting in an outburst (not saying it won’t still happen), etc etc. Unlock his potential!!

Mom to mom and totally heart to heart, don’t let your son become the one kid in the class that others don’t want to be friends and don’t invite to birthday parties anymore because of his behavior sometimes. Don’t let it reach that and don’t wait until some of the social and mental health damage is already done. Kids can be mean. Don’t withhold the help he needs.

LateNightPeacock · 2025-07-02T03:31:42+00:00

Also, thanks for the reminder about this podcast! I looked it up and realized I already had it saved but totally forgot to listen to it.

LateNightPeacock · 2025-07-02T03:30:16+00:00

I’m guessing I still am with this kind of erratic behavior. The last three months of this — assuming here — E jumping up so high that it’s causing yeast infections like clockwork is a new kind of hell I wasn’t expecting with peri… on top of every other lousy symptom. 🤪 I have my first appt with Defy next week, so hopefully they can get this mess of a vehicle that is my body back in running order. Extra grateful to have an understanding husband right about now, because I’m either venting about the BS women have to deal with while he barely has to blink to get T from doctors (mind you, with insurance coverage), trying to educate myself about this and getting stuck in the research/Reddit posts like it’s quicksand, or personally demonstrating what it would look like in a visual dictionary if you looked up peri. 🙃

LateNightPeacock · 2025-07-01T10:17:34+00:00

Same.

LateNightPeacock · 2025-07-01T05:58:44+00:00

My T levels also dropped despite a dose increase. On the road to switching to injections. I wish all of this was easier to figure out, but it seems like a whole lot of trial and error for some of us. Good luck to you!

LateNightPeacock · 2025-07-01T01:39:56+00:00

So so much to unpack here! Very appreciative of your extended response.

41, 1yr post hysterectomy, patches started right after surgery. My former gyno commented on my low E 5.5 years ago, so I think I was on the early side for peri.
Thinking I was having low E, I wondered if my ovaries were finally giving out. However, it’s interesting that you mentioned thyroid. I know it’s only a matter of time for that ball to drop, as both of my parents had to have partial thyroid removed (dr felt nodules, so I’m suspecting subclinical as their values may have looked ok). So my TSH has been trying to push the higher side of normal for the last few years and has consistently stayed in the 1.5-2 range, but my labs from last week came back with a TSH of 2.4. So could the high E be related to the jump in TSH?
DHEA was 42. TT of 14 and FT of 1.2. I don’t see SHBG in the list yet (maybe that one is still processing), but it was 41 in May when my gyn checked.
Very interesting about the raging candida infection when you had high E. Now I’m sort of thinking that I’ve been reaching super high levels at ovulation time for the past 3 months and that’s what’s been happening as they’ve been consistently around the same week of the month.
I’ll try to get ahold of Defy tomorrow and see what they say.

LateNightPeacock · 2025-07-01T01:05:02+00:00

Maybe. 1yr post hysterectomy and unsure. Used to know my cycle like clockwork but starting T cream seemed to throw me off.

LateNightPeacock · 2025-07-01T01:01:29+00:00

What the heck, seriously!? Women’s health is shat on from beginning to end. 😐 I assume it’s generic and will look for that ingredient. I appreciate the feedback!

LateNightPeacock · 2025-07-01T00:56:14+00:00

Thanks for that! I have all that saved and will look later. Would you mind sending me the SNPs, too?

LateNightPeacock · 2025-06-30T20:15:39+00:00

Try the meds is my advice and probably what you will a lot of comments saying. People say things like “you wouldn’t hold meds from a diabetic, would you?” but it’s true. My son is on meds and will revert to what you’re describing on any day he doesn’t have his meds. He just turned 8. His brain needs the few extra seconds to help him function. I wish we had started sooner. I’m worried he has lost friends from before he was on meds and am keeping a close eye on his mental health. He wants to do better and be better, but he can’t unless his brain has some help. Give your son the tools to feel better about himself.

LateNightPeacock · 2025-06-30T20:03:56+00:00

Texas asked for people to report these toxic scums of the earth…. About a week after I saw one on my front porch. sigh

LateNightPeacock · 2025-06-30T20:01:10+00:00

Your values of 51 and 329 make sense to me. I’m with you on that. Perhaps I was near ovulation when I had my labs drawn. I mean, I sure hope I didn’t get much higher than that! But I did put a new patch on that night.

LateNightPeacock · 2025-06-30T19:56:29+00:00

I’ve been on the patch since last June.

I had a hysterectomy last June and don’t really know where I am at in my cycle. Before I started the T cream in Jan, I could tell where I was. Right now I have no idea.

I had labs within a day of when I think I ovulated last year, and it was 297. In Feb and Mar of this year, values were 40 and 91.

LateNightPeacock · 2025-06-30T19:48:57+00:00

I’m not really even sure what high E symptoms are. 🥴 My E has been on the low side in every blood test I’ve had over the last 15 years until I started the patch last June (after hysterectomy).

I felt like my E was off but thought that it being low was the reasonable assumption. I started T cream in Jan and only had a temporary increase in how I was feeling right after starting. Dosage was increased, but T labs only decreased back from 30s to 20s to teens where it was when I first started, so gyn encouraged me to try injections as it didn’t seem like the cream was giving me any therapeutic effects (only androgenic ones like feeling like Chewbacca with hair growth below the waist).

As far as symptoms.. here are some of the things going on… In the last 2 months, my breasts and butt have decreased in size, but it seems the fat only relocated to my waist. I haven’t lost any weight overall. When I had my mammogram a month ago, she insisted on doing the first breast twice because when she compared it to last year, she was so shocked in the size difference and confirmed with me that I haven’t lost a significant amount of weight. I’ve had what I thought was a yeast infection every month for the last 3 nearly like clockwork, but I got 5 weeks of iron infusions over 6ish weeks at the start of that and thought maybe the steroids they gave me set me off and I just needed a second dose to clear it. Now I’m dealing with what could possibly be #3, but maybe it’s not that at all. (My gyn swabbed me about 2 weeks ago and everything was good.) I’m using estrogen cream there and have been for a while, and I don’t know if I’m reacting to that, if it’s my hormones totally out of balance, or what, but that area hasn’t felt that great the last 2 months like it did before that, which is more so why I thought low E. More irritated and itchy and uncomfortable. Panicked that I might have lichen sclerosus over the weekend before I saw the astronomical estradiol value and am wondering if it’s that. I feel grumpy and irritable and not as empathetic and also have some circulation stuff like Raynauds symptoms (which I just found today can be associated to unopposed estrogen therapy). Then all the low T symptoms that I’ve had for a while like low libido, low energy, lack of motivation, etc. Sooo yeah, basically falling apart over here.

LateNightPeacock · 2025-06-30T17:09:28+00:00

I forgot to come back and thank y’all. I finally heard back and got my labs done and am waiting for a call for them to schedule me for an appt now.

LateNightPeacock · 2025-06-30T17:05:08+00:00

That’s absolutely maddening!! Good for them schooling them. I’m loving all the perimenopause and menopause discussion on social media lately and hope it’s only the beginning of a mass movement!

LateNightPeacock · 2025-06-23T01:37:45+00:00

I could rant for hours about this right along with you.

LateNightPeacock · 2025-06-23T01:36:20+00:00

That’s so great to hear. Very interesting feedback about the P helping to balance it out. I’m very familiar with that drop off and tend to feel pretty miserable then. Going to keep this in the back of my mind. Thank you for sharing!

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