First of all, still no more problems with anyone’s naval fleet. It must have just been nerves or stress or Lord only knows what, but it seems to be behind us.
Anyway, this one HURT today. I don’t know what the problem was, but it wasn’t like the last three.
After the insemination, you’re supposed to lay there for 10-15 minutes on your back, hips elevated. The procedure itself was relatively pain free, but once she lifted the table to prop my hips up and left the room for me to stew, I started cramping. And I mean cramping.
Here’s the thing. These days, I have varying degrees of “cramping”. It goes something like this:
- Stage One – Menstrual Cramps. LOL. What was that? Yawn.
- Stage Two – Miscarriage Cramps. These are the, “Man, I need to stay still for a second and try to breathe” cramps. Maybe take four advil and curl into a ball on the couch.
- Stage Three – Ruptured Cyst Cramps. OMG I WANNA DIE. Fall-off-the-treadmill, blank out for a bit, start sweating and vomiting. These are horrible.
- Stage Four – HSG Cramps. OMG I’M DEAD. Figuratively. Vasovagal reaction, paralysed from pain, can’t breathe or speak. Blood pressure plummets. Skin turns grey. Ya know. Those.
These cramps need a new category, I guess. They’re somewhere between Stage 2 and Stage 3, where you are in a lot of pain but are still in control of yourself, barely. Good thing they only last about 20 minutes. Like, maybe when a faery gets stuck with cold iron. Pull the nail out and they’re fine. That kind of pain.
What? I like sci fi and fantasy. It’s a good analogy!!
Anyway, it hurt. They subsided in time for Natasha to come back and tell me I could get dressed, but had they continued any longer, I would have gotten worried. I had heard that you can cramp during an IUI, but I had never experienced it before.
I guess there’s a first time for everything.
Anyway, two week wait again. I don’t know what to think after last month. I do know that I have a beta test scheduled already for June 29th. I’ll actually, ya know, GO to this one. Who knows, maybe the cramping was a good sign!!
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