We went to the park as a family today. My mother-in-law asked to see if we’d be able to get together. We haven’t been doing the Sunday lunches like we used to. I didn’t mean for it to permanently end, I just wanted to be able to not have to do it every Sunday. The compromise was finding another time together during the week. We met at Monty’s first for supper and I’d made a strawberry shortcake dessert for the park.

This was a rougher day emotionally, for no reason other than that the hormones in my body cause the GABA receptors in my brain to change shape so that the GABA cannot bind. The result is that things just feel more painful. It is progesterone that does this. I have a friend who’s been taking progesterone for several months in order to hopefully curb some similar symptoms. She’s going to monitor how it works.

There are different theories regarding what is going on in the body, but the GABA receptor alteration is the one that makes the most sense to me. In that case I do not quite understand how the progesterone would be helpful, but I have not researched that as much. GABA is a neurotransmitter that works to calm neuro-excitability. This is what makes benzodiazepines so helpful, because they enhance the effects of GABA.