The HSG – what’s involved
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So I went in for the HSG. The things you have to do to try to get pregnant…and to think I ever bothered to use birth control all those years ago. My RE said this guy is the best in the area even though he is a bit eccentric. So I was expecting some oddities but the nurses and the doc were very pleasant.
I knew what to expect – that a tiny catheter would be inserted through my vagina and then through my cervix into the uterine cavity. They expected some challenges because my cervix is blocked – or partially blocked. In this effort to get pregnant I sure have learnt alot more about my body and my reproductive system than I ever really wanted to know.
Well for those of you who have never had an HSG, its a bit humiliating – like everything about having a medical team of doctors and instruments help you get pregnant. They had to position me just so beneath the xray machine – bending my legs this way and that – exposing me. It’s so odd having total strangers looking at your most private parts – strange, embarrassinng, and humiliating. Although the doctor tried to be comforting and make me feel relaxed.
I was injected with pain killers but I still felt some pain. I had anticipated that it would be really unbearable because of the blocked cervix. And it was bad, but it was bearable. Or, at least, I kept telling myself that I would do anything to have our baby even if that meant enduring pain. I never expected getting pregnant would require all of this.
Well, the doc said that my cervix was indeed very fibrous (probably because of the cone biopsy and D&C I had several years ago – the cervix sort of overgrew itself like runaway scar tissue). He said he would try to open it up a bit so that the sperm could get through. I had my doubts about if that would work..and the ‘opening up’ was extremely painful – but I figured I would try anything to get pregnant.
The good news is that my tubes are clear! YAY! Of course that means that while we have ruled out another possible cause of our, as yet, unexplained infertiliy, we still don’t know what is causing the problem. But I have promised myself that I will try to focus on the positives while trying to get pregnant. So yay! the tubes are clear and working.
Afterwards, I was kind of woozy due to the drugs. There wasn’t any pain after like I have heard some women have. I am still spotting though – I think it might be his attempts to ‘open up’ the cervix contributing to that. But am just glad its over.
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