Little Miss Sensitivity

It was the day of the big ultrasound and blood work. A nurse escorted me back to the ultrasound room. She said, "why are you here, you're pregnant?" I couldn't believe she didn't read my chart. I said, "no I had 2 miscarriages and they found a fibroid, the doctor needs to see where exactly the fibroid is". She asked, "so you are pregnant?" I said, "I lost the baby, my HCG is zero,". She said, "So you had a missed a/b?" I looked at her puzzled. She clarified, "a missed abortion?" I could not believe this was happening, I very well could have started balling. So I said, with a very bitchy tone, "I am not pregnant, the baby died". And then we were on the same page.

So after she ramrodded me with the ultrasound wand, she said it was big, it hadn't shrunk post pregnancy, which can often happen, and I needed to get it out. She said it was in my lining, so it was definitely my problem. Since she had told me this info she wasn't supposed to tell me, I decided not to tell on her for being completely insensitive and not reading my chart.

Then I was on to blood work. The phlebotomist said, "oh I have never had to do one of this big panels before, I thought I could avoid it". I personally have had my blood taken by her about 10 times in the last year, so I must be the freak of the century that I am the only one getting this blood panel.

We were going to draw 13 vials. During the 10th vial, my only good vein gave out. They had to find two other people to look at me and finally a nurse came in and took the remaining vials from my bicep (read ouch).

The next week, I get the results. Negative for PCOS (hurray!), negative for Lupus, negative for about 8 blood disorders, POSITIVE for a blood clotting disorder. The doctor did say sometimes when you have these big panel tests you get a false elevation. The number should be between 20 and 41 and my number was 49. A couple days later they took my blood again to re-test.

Last week I found it, that it was a false positive. I was at 31. My little vein gave out and caused a scare.

So this leaves me with testing negative for everything. Now all I need to do is the HSG. The doctor did say that the fibroid was not in my lining (and those might not necessarily the problem). This was so upsetting to me. We will only know if it is the problem from the HSG, which will show her the inside of the uterus.

I am scheduled to go this Friday for the test. I have heard different things. A friend told me to bring a towel to bite down on because it is excruciating. I wasn't expecting it to be that bad, so I was not happy with that. I have read on the web that it is like severe cramps, but not horrendous.

Have you ever had an HSG? What can I expect?