Dum spiro spero.

[sistawendy]

I've been on spironolactone for almost a week now.

Fat redistribution: check. You may reasonably suspect that it's water weight, but remember that spironolactone is a diuretic.

Peeing more: check.

Reduced aggression: check. I'm yelling at the Wendling less.

Reduced libido & (ahem) flaccidity: check.

I've been a little more tired at night. This morning and only this morning a lot of my muscles felt crampy, but lunch took care of that.

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In other news, my whole feature team just got several person-months of work shelved. My shiny new boss says this is not normal at MyCo.

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I just finished writing AutoNag, a Windows application that plays a .wav after the desired number of minutes have elapsed, and will loop until the stop button is clicked. Best of all, it has a repeat mode. Mmu hu hwaugh huh hah hah!

I think I'll add a list-of-.wavs feature to it, so I can automate nagging for my son's whole morning routine. I may need to change the wait time entry to seconds instead of minutes.

Comments

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

sounds like it is going well... er so to speak.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

I'm happy with it.

[maellenkleth]

Watch your potassium levels with spiro: hyperkalemia will make you crampy; hypokalemia may induce cardiac arrhythmia. I remain amused that the here-useful action of spiro was initially regarded as an unexpected (indeed, unanticipated) side-effect.

Search on PubMED for Jerrilyn Prior. Some interesting papers about 30 years ago.

Just sign me,

the guinea pig of long standing