Post by crazygirl82 on Apr 20, 2015 17:43:25 GMT -5
My experience today started out badly. I received a call from my doctor's scheduler this morning saying that they hadn't received the medical records from my RE so they were going to cancel my D and C if they didn't get them. I have been bleeding and in a lot of pain for two days so I was naturally not too excited to hear this. With three sacs implanted I was expecting a very long and painful miscarriage. I basically told the scheduler that this was between her and my RE and they need to figure it out. The scheduler very rudely told me: "Well you were the one that insisted on getting a follow up ultrasound with your RE", like this was my fault for getting a second opinion.
Eventually, they did receive the records and the surgery went forward. I was very sad that MH couldn't be there because he is out of town for work, so my mom took me. Since she used to work in surgical scheduling for years at the hospital where I had my procedure, she knew where everything was and made the whole process much easier. They let her stay with me until they wheeled me into the operating room which was comforting. The surgical nurse also turned out to be the mom of one of my cousin's best friends and was very sweet and understanding which was helpful.
I thought I would be able to hold it together but I was wrong. As soon as my surgical nurse put the paper in front of me with the procedure information I broke down in tears and basically cried through my entire pre-op. They gave me some sort of anxiety meds to calm me down which helped a lot. I think I was asleep before the anesthesiologist even came in the room.
I remember waking up comfortable and warm with no real side effects. I did take an ibuprophen once the pain meds wore off for some light cramping.
After spotting for one day and bleeding heavily for two I'm very happy to have it over. Even though emotionally the d and c was very tough I'm very glad that it's done. I would rather have it over with than go through the long, slow process of miscarriage.
I've already started to try a frozen transfer as soon as I can (which looks like June).
If anyone is on the fence about getting a D and C I would definitely recommend it. I just wish I had had it sooner because day one of the miscarriage was extremely painful.
I just wanted to share for those of you that may go through it.
