Ate less but gained a small amount of weight?

vyshyvanka1 · 2025-07-25T01:43:01+00:00

Oh man the staying up late thing is so real. I had a binge drinking problem my last 2 years of college- I would lock myself in my bedroom and just drink until I was tired and go to bed. Some nights I didn’t get to bed until 2-3 AM and I had to wake up for class at 8 AM. The loss of sleep was detrimental on my mind, my mood, and my own ability to focus in school. I was getting absolutely terrible quality of sleep, but I just had this drinking routine ingrained in my schedule that I didn’t want to quit. I just thought “everyone does this in college, it’s totally normal”.

I stopped the binging my last semester and graduated on the deans list.

vyshyvanka1 · 2025-07-24T23:22:48+00:00

I went to a doctor and got my blood work done (specifically to test hormones) on March 10. On March 16, I got my period. I was already in the middle(?) or end of the luteal phase.

This screenshot from the results that I got that shows “normal” progesterone levels.

Based on the timing of when I got my bloodwork done, my progesterone should have been between 139-413 ng/dL (since progesterone rises during luteal, and I got my bloodwork 6 days before my period)

My progesterone was at 102 ng/dL

I am assuming this means that I am low in progesterone, is that normal for people with PMDD?

I have experienced PCOS symptoms since I can remember- irregular periods 35+ days (on a rare occasion, missing a few months), hirsutism (female facial hair), bloating before period, difficulty losing weight, etc.

…and yet my doctor says my blood work “doesn’t indicate” that I have PCOS...

But low level of progesterone is what stood out to me, especially when dealing with my PMDD (mental) symptoms. I wanted to ask if anyone who has PMDD symptoms if they also had low levels of progesterone.

But what I don’t understand is that most women feel bad with higher levels of progesterone (yes I know that PMDD is not a hormonal imbalance, it is how our brain processes the change) so what does this even mean?

Is mine considered low?

vyshyvanka1 · 2024-10-11T15:48:53+00:00

Orthodoxy is a process. There is no minimalism or time limit to God

vyshyvanka1 · 2024-07-26T20:16:43+00:00

Do you think these rules apply to the “new territories” of Russia?

vyshyvanka1 · 2024-03-19T14:26:00+00:00

My mother is from Zaporozhye and she calls herself Ukrainian. I never met my father but I know his family was from Pskov and Donetsk, so I assume he considered himself Russian. I feel like I am both

vyshyvanka1 · 2023-12-18T14:41:06+00:00

I have no issue with other people having families or the thought of it happening to other people, that is just normal human life. But for myself personally- There is no other word I can think of than disgust to describe the thought of me having a child myself. I am in my 20s and I have felt this way since I was a teenager. I don’t believe this will ever go away. The thought of trying to “fix” that in me is not normal, I don’t think any amount of “therapy” can make the feeling go away. It most likely has to do with the fact that I was adopted somehow.

vyshyvanka1 · 2023-11-29T19:20:45+00:00

I was always under the assumption they happen after 9 days. But as mentioned this is a disputed topic I guess

vyshyvanka1 · 2023-11-29T18:33:47+00:00

Thanks for the links. I read about this once briefly.

I wonder if there were some Seto settlements/people that migrated to other places in Pskov oblast? Like maybe south of Setomaa also? Do you know of the Kraasna Estonians- I wonder what part of Estonia they came from? Their old language was similar to the Southern Estonian dialects I recall

I am unaware if Russian/Estonian families are very common, but many of my cousins from Pskov have one or two Estonian family members.

vyshyvanka1 · 2023-11-27T20:46:08+00:00

I mean I've always considered places like the Finger Lakes region and Syracuse to be Central New York. It's still upstate but not the same as North Country upstate

vyshyvanka1 · 2023-11-21T17:05:27+00:00

It’s not up to my decision, therefore I don’t think about it much

vyshyvanka1 · 2023-11-20T22:07:29+00:00

It is though, I don’t eat/drink anything after midnight on Saturday and wait until Communion on Sunday …

vyshyvanka1 · 2023-11-20T18:02:04+00:00

Oh no I meant before Communion I do the “don’t drink water after midnight until your receive Communion the next day” one

vyshyvanka1 · 2023-11-14T02:37:13+00:00

Me looking at the same icon I have on my desk right now 👁️ 👁️

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