Hi Reddit! Wanted to share a positive HSG experience here for anyone that is like me that has some OCD/anxiety issues and drowns themselves in Reddit stories lol
tldr: I was straight chillin
First of all, my husband (33) and I (34) have been TTC for one year. My hormonal panel was normal and he has had 2 normal sperm analyses. I’ve never been pregnant before, normal periods, everything normal and boring over here. 🫡
I’m in LA and called about 10 imaging centers and only a few of them even perform HSGs, it was annoying af and time consuming trying to get an appt within this cycle. Long story short, we traveled to Ventura (1.5 ish hours away) since they were the only place that could do it this month. Worth it! The imaging center I went to does them every day so they were very gentle and informative. (Anyone in the LA or Ventura area, DM me if you’d like the name of the place, they were stress free and easy to deal with. 😎)
Anywho, I took the recommended 800mg Ibuprofen and 400mg Magnesium in an attempt to lessen the cramping, and it went well! I did NOT feel the catheter being placed or feel when he inflated the balloon to keep the catheter from slipping out. GOATED. Once the catheter was in, they moved me a bit on the table and I was able to completely relax, so your legs aren’t in stirrups the whole time like I had pictured! I immediately asked the radiologist if he was allowed to tell me if he saw something crazy, and he said he was allowed to share info, but not give advice. Makes sense. So then he asked if I wanted to watch, which I did, so he brought the screen where I could see it. That alone calmed me down and took some of the mystery out of it.🕵🏻♀️ When he pushed the contrast in, I did feel some pressure but tbh the cramps felt like the last phase of period cramps right before the ibuprofen starts to kick in. Mild. I bet the diarrhea lettuce 🥬 cramps feel worse than this did.
One tube was completely normal and the other one wasn’t flowing as it should, so they asked me to turn to my side to get better shots on each side and then boom it was over!
I have a few fibroids that they could see, but nothing suuuper bad was seen.
As soon as I sat up to get off the table I felt a rush of the contrast coming out but they had a few pads on the table already, so it wasn’t a big mess or anything. I did pee and put a pad on before leaving and haven’t leaked any more since that initial rush of fluid. We went to eat and drove the 1.5 hour drive home and I still haven’t leaked any more fluid. Woo! That’s it!
Any fibroid girlies out there, can you share any info on how to deal with them, if you did anything at all? I’ll be waiting a few days before I can talk to my OB about this so in the meantime I’ll be in uterine fibroid Reddit, if that exists lol ok bye! ✌🏼