My mood has been swinging wildly during the past week. In the course of an afternoon, I can swing from giddy optimism to pessimistic depression. I'm wondering if the hormones I'm taking daily are responsible for this. My only reason for wondering this is that pregnant women are supposedly subject to wild mood swings, and people always whisper " it's the hormonal changes..." Likewise with teenagers, particularly during developing pubescence.

Another undoubted effect of the hormones is that I'm heavier than I've ever been in my life. I got the greatest shock the other day when during the same workout, I not only weighed myself to find out I was 216 lbs, but also Cecilia called me "beefy", which is not an adjective anybody has ever used to describe me. Skinny is more the word that's flung at me. I've now been on the hormone replacement therapy for about seven weeks, and I'm pretty sure that my increased energy is a direct result. So I'm working out harder, and able to put on more muscle. I'm also hornier than ever, but that's another story.

Today I began the second part of the program to defeat chronic fatigue, adding both pro- and anti-biotic supplements to my daily regimen. I now calculate I'm taking over twenty capsules a day of six or seven different types of drugs and supplements. I'm going to need a special drug just to avoid getting confused; do I take this yellow one with food or between meals?