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Turns out I was right - my period is late. It should have started today but didn't. I'm not too surprised. I do have some strange things going on though. About two days ago I started noticing some tenderness in my breasts. I haven't had soreness before a period in quite a while, but I've done quite a bit of messing with hormones lately so it's nothing too weird. However, at the same time, I started experiencing slight nausea. That has gotten progressively worse each day. My appetite has been insane and so has my libido. My thoughts are all over the place and I can't seem to focus on anything for very long. I've felt some slight cramping sensations over the last two days which is also weird because I never really feel any signs of my period coming. In all honesty I fear pregnancy just a tiny bit. Logic tells me it's not possible, as my boyfriend had a vasectomy about a year and a half ago (which he's going to have reversed here in the near future). A baby would definitely be more than welcome, I'm just a little on edge because I know the supplements I'm taking would not be good to take during pregnancy. I also had a very tiny amount of bleeding this month, which I attributed to ovulation. Now I'm second-guessing myself and wondering if it could have been implantation bleeding. I really doubt it though as it would have been much too early for that. My temperature has also been significantly higher than normal since ovulation (I wasn't taking L-Tyrosine at that time). I've also been having strange sensations in my breasts the last few days, since the soreness began. It basically feels like it did when I was on herbs, but I know that I wasn't stalled. Maybe the change in my hormone levels worked with whatever the WU had done and caused it. Who knows.

Anyway, I'm going to give it a few more days and if my period still hasn't come I will take a pregnancy test. In the meantime I'm trying to weed out which supplement I'm taking could be causing the nausea. I suspect the L-Tyrosine and I think it may be contributing to anxiety issues as well. Both can be side-effects of it. So I will stop taking it and see if that makes a difference. I really don't think I need it anyway since my temp hasn't been low at all. I also started experiencing a tight, wheezing type feeling in my chest today and I'm wondering if it's not the milk thistle. I've been taking it for a week now so it seems strange that it would take this long to show signs of a reaction. And I've taken it several times in the past for liver cleanses during NBE and never had that problem. But I'm allergic to ragweed, so... It could very well be the culprit. I don't really want to stop taking it because I need it for the liver cleanse, but if the feeling persists, I may skip it tomorrow just to see what happens.

I have received my UB and am anxious to begin! I have high hopes for this. I bought Palmer's Cocoa Butter and Vit E lotion (the formula specifically without parabens! no way am I massaging something into my breasts that contains parabens) and I've bought my protein shake. Unfortunately I bought one that's both whey isolate and isolate concentrate, so I'm hoping I don't gain weight from it. I just don't feel like taking it back to the store and exchanging and I can't afford the really expensive shakes right now. So we'll see what happens. I'll post again when I'm finally able to begin my program!