all good advice - thanks. Wife had a tremendous headache last night (not faking - ha ha) and went to bed early so I didn't have to decide whether or not I was going to try anything. Just checked the calendar and we are 6 weeks since last ML so that explains why I'm so intent. We usually ML every two weeks though it can swing from one a week (if everything is going great) to once a month (if things are haywire). So, six weeks is definitely a stresser on both of us.