I have been really lucky in that my HSG and the first two IUI's were a piece of cake and not painful at all. IUI #3 this morning was awful and damn it, I'd better be PG so I don't have to do it again. They couldn't get the catheter into my cervix so she brought out a tenaculum - the torture device from hell (pictured above) - to "hold" my cervix. Thank goodness I didn't look at it beforehand because I would have run out of the room screaming. It was the most awful experience and 6 hours later I'm still traumatized. And then afterwards I had to lay there for a good 10 minutes while she kept pressure on the cervix to stop the bleeding. (I later looked into the trashcan and there was quite a bit more blood than I imagined.) How, in all of my reading, did I not know that this was a possibility? Although really, ignorance was bliss. It doesn't even hurt anymore, but the thought of it still gives me shivers. I don't ever want to go back into that room.
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