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Pregnancy?? Birth Control?? IUD???
June 14, 2006
I noticed that Bonnie from Preschooler's Today is up and loaded here at Mom's Today. Congrat's Bonnie, this is Jennifer from Preschooler's today.
Let's get to my tag line, no I'm not pregnant. I am realizing as each passing day goes, several people a month ask about my daughter and then when I'm having a second child. I am 3 months post op for a gastric bypass and pregnancy is not recommened from 18-24 months post of. There is a high level of nutrional malabsorption and this affects the bodys levels, which inturn could cause birth defects and things for a baby.
I thought I was on a baby free track for about 5 years. I had a Mirena IUD inserted on May 2nd. I started having trouble with it right away. I know the spotting was a side effect, ok, but I had heavier bleeding then with my cycle, this lasted every stinking day. On June 1st I went for my 1 month check, I told the dr I wanted it out. He fussed. He said I could 'spot' for 6 months.
I was bleeding heavily and didn't like it. I even got to the point I had to increase my iron so I could heal some bruises I had.
THese bruises lasted about 5 weeks too. I fell getting into the bath tub and had a bruise the size of a grapefruit and it took 5 weeks to heal. Um... Not good. I have chronic back pain from a herniated disc in my l4-S1 and this IUD made the pain way more intense.
So, I insisted with the dr that there was no changing my mind.
Dr checks and the strings are MIA. Ok, no Strings, he trys to get it out again, no strings, and again. He tries a third time and nothing. Now, my cervix is bleeding. Great. I was pissed, there was blood all over me and now I had to go to the Ultrasound room to have an ultrasound becasue the dr was getting worried.
There on the ultrasound this stupid IUD was at the top of my uterus. They check for perferations, there were none thank goodness. I am even bloodier now then when I went to this room. I'm sick of this bleeding, it makes me feel dirty.
Now, my levi's are covered in it, it's on my leg's and smears here and there. I'm ticked off. I already had a terrible day and now this nonsense. I was told to come back on Tuesday.
I returned home and cleaned up then it was off to Princess' Graduation from Pre K. Kinda an elborate affair. I was also mad that day because princess said a student kicked her in the stomach and the school didn't handle it up to my expectations.
ANyways, I return Tuesday. Girls ask for Urine sample, um nope. I don't have to go. SHoulda told me last time. I go back, dr isn't so great like he was last visit, he's gotten a complicated situation as well as myself. They weight me I was 193 - yikes there's the 190's again. So I go in, um, yep, no strings. They tried three times. Nothing, nada.
Dr comes back into room very frustrated, um like i'm not. I have this horrible thing making me crazy from bleeding too much.
I proceed to explain how I cannot return on Friday because there are already too many people off at work, etc. He agree's to do it on Wednesday the 7th. Let the heck begin. I returned home that evening and was very upset, this was six tries and nothing yet. He tells me he has a prior engagement on Thursday, ok, well how about wednesday.
I return wednesday, this is a nightmare. I go back today I weigh 187, did loose 5lbs in a day, could be. Explain gastric bypass.
CMA discusses how I need IuD out and she didn't know I had just had it inserted in May. We go to the Ultra Sound room.
I am waiting for them to get their stuff together. Things were set up properly, dr explains training and things. Ok, what ever.
I understand people need to learn. He's talking and I"m not listening. I've tuned him out. They did a hysteroscopy, they explain they need IV fluds, this is quite messy. Ok, go, start.
The CMA got the wrong speculum, evidently they make single sided ones, he tries to proceed with this one, um it doesn't workl. Second try, got the speculum right this time. Dr is non chalant but I could tell there was concern. He tries again.
Gets a string and it snaps. The IUD was wedged into the Uterus really bad. The Second Try Wednesday wasn't working.
At this point he begins discussing doing surgery to remove it.
Anesthisa - um no. The dr is explaining things and keeps telling me to look at the screen where the camera is hooked up.
I told him, I don't want to look, it's grossing me out.
He asks for permission to try a third time and apologizes in advance for hurting me. The flush of fluid and his persistance resulted in 1 Mirena IUD removed. SO 9 attempts were made to get this out. I was in alot of pain, but going to surgery was going to be a pain in and of itself.
I really don't like my dr right now. I know it's not his fault, but I don't like him. I know the IUD failure wasn't his fault, it was my bodys, I blame him for trying to persuade me to keep it.
It was in the wrong place from the get go, do you see where I'm getting at, I could have gotten pregnant even though I took percautions to prevent it.
If I see stirrups anytime soon, it will be too soon. The dr discusses a vaginal ring for birth control, I tell him, doubled over in pain, I am not ready to discuss birth control. He tells me Depo is out, its a horrible drug, he tells me pills are out, due to malabsorption which I knew this, he tells me the ring is a good option and could cause weight gain. Now, I've gone for years wihtout birthcontrol because i Don't like it. I will continue to go without. I am not paying a $35 copayment each month for something I don't want to take.
Now, I cannot get over this. An $800 IUD can reak this kind of havoic, while a $30,000 gastric bypass doesn't cause me any problems. Go figure.
So, I'm IUD free and waiting to stop bleeding. I am done with BCP. My friend told me she's expecting. I can say with a good concious, I think 1 child is enough for me. I will elborate late.
JENNIFer
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