My wonderful doctors have told me more than once to always let medical staff know that you have a super low pain threshold. One pal doc got mad at me when I got nauseous during a procedure. Not because I got sick, but because I didn't tell him in advance that I had issues because he would have given me something. He explained that the pain thresholds and reactions are all along a significant curve and speak the hell up in advance so it can be prevented.
Signed, was expecting a quick checkup and ended up getting numbed up and abused for over an hour at the dentist yesterday. I explained to the dental dude that it wasn't that it hurt, it was that I wasn't prepared.
Back in May, I had a nasty respiratory infection and dragged myself into a little clinic near home. They did a swab to make sure it wasn't strep and beforehand, I warned them I have an oversensitive gag reflex. To my credit, I've never actually thrown up on a medical person ....
I do not have IUD #3. That was indescribably painful, through no fault of my OB/GYN, who was a champ. She could not get my cervix dilated enough to insert the sound (through which the IUD is inserted) without an extraordinary, unbearable amount of pain on my part.
I didn't actually pass out, but I came close, twice (the second time was a surprise, because we were officially done trying to put the damn thing in, and I was sitting up, and then a wave of pain hit me and I saw spots and just laid back down and said "Maybe someone should get my husband so he doesn't think I died back here.")
So it looks like Tim will be getting snipped. And at some point I guess I'll start getting a period again. Boo.
I feel like I was sucker-punched in the cervix. By the Hulk. And that's only a slight exaggeration. I cannot overstate how painful it was.
And now I'm back home and want to go back to bed with a heating pad and more ibuprofen, but I have some work to finish that's absolutely due today. Fortunately, it should only be about an hour of work and then I can go be unconscious.
Oh man. I'm so sorry things went so badly.
Yikes, Teppy. I'm so sorry. Feel better.
Aw, Steph, I'm sorry. That sounds awful. Also, boo future periods.
If Trump wants a truly impenetrable wall of racism between us and Mexico, he should build it out of my cervix, because NOTHING is getting through it.
Maybe he'd offer me a position in his cabinet if I Tweet that to him.
Which I will NOT do.
I have to say, between waking up on Jan. 1 with no water, getting food poisoning (which technically started in 2016 but lasted through yesterday), and now the Impenetrable Cervix Misadventure, I am not impressed with 2017. And we're only 4 days in.
Step it UP, 2017.
To my credit, I've never actually thrown up on a medical person ....
It is a minor miracle that I have not.
Oh Steph, I am so sorry it was so awful. I know it really worked well for you. Is there no other options for pain free insertion? DH#1 was snipped, as was my brother, and they both said it was no big deal, although we did tease them about the whole icebag in the crotch recovery thing.
I only tried an IUD once. It was very painful, and continued being painful for 3 days, after which the thing expelled itself. No, I did not try again.
