HSG

So yesterday was the day my fallopian tubes went on show.

I was seriously nervous before it, but managed to get to the hospital safely, bought the "equipment" for the procedure (seriously!) then waited for my turn. I was the first one in, and as I was lying on the table, knees apart waiting, the doctor and nurse were having a fine old chat and laughing and joking about something, it was in Hakkanese so I couldn't understand it, and I just thought "I'm lying on a table in Taiwan naked, with my knees apart about to get a catheter in my uterus and the doctors are laughing... My life is never dull." And I had a chuckle to myself as I thought about how wonderful my life with Mr Man is and how, even though I was about to be stabbed in the uterus with a catheter, that I wouldn't change a thing. And I was happy.

And then the stabbing began and I wasn't so happy.

So I had heard that it was like a long papsmear. Well I'll agree the beginning of it was, and then it just really hurt.. I felt the catheter enter my uterus, and the die being injected, I felt the die moving through my fallopian tubes (I now know exactly where they are!) and it felt like everything was being burnt, but not in a seering pain way, more a sharp cramping way.. It's hard to explain. I guess it felt like really bad period pain?
After about 10 minutes of the table moving one way and the other, it was over and I was told everything was OK but that the doctor would have the full report in about a week.

I still felt in quite a lot of discomfort/pain so I decided to hang around the hospital for a bit, until I felt well enough to sit down on my scooter and drive to work. It was a pretty uncomfortable night at work, but today I'm feeling MUCH better! My uterus and I are both feeling relieved..

So I can check "blocked fallopian tubes" off from our list of possible reasons for our infertility!
Yay!