WHY does being a woman have to be so FUCKING DIFFICULT?!

[logansrogue]

I'm already super pissed off at the world because of a quick browse of Feministing.com. I was reading unfunnybusiness again and tripped over it in my usual net wanderings. I just took a couple of psyklokapron or whatever the fuck it's called and I am having the WORST FUCKING CRAMPS OF MY LIFE. I was literally wriggling about on the floor, desperately trying to find a position where I didn't HURT LIKE HELL and was surely failing.

There are NO WORDS for this pain - none. IT is beyond description. It is both cramping, stabbing, aching, all at once. There is no throbbing, no pounding. It is constant, unerring, unending PAIN. It grips your brain and makes you pray to God, even if you don't believe in God. You're bloody desperate for ANYTHING to stop the pain. Any pill, any source of comfort - anything. Even if that includes moaning or making stupid noises. You know how good you feel when you're just about to come? You just HAVE to make noise cause you feel so damned good and you're so loaded up with bliss? Well, imagine the exact OPPOSITE of that, but with pain.

And I haven't even had the joy of childbirth yet. I fear being pregnant if the end result is worse than this. :(

It's finally happened. My Uterus has declared war and is finally deciding to take over the rest of my body.

Comments

[kateshort.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're not set on natural childbirth, you can have an epidural. There are risks, yes, but once you get it in you don't tend to feel much. (This can make pushing more difficult, but in my case, I just got itchy and tingly, like my legs were mostly asleep, and I did okay and felt enough to be able to push correctly, so it was less than 12 hours from very very first contraction to BABY!)

I have to say that the pain of contractions while on the 7-minute ride to the hospital was the 2nd-worst pain I'd felt in a long time. If I thought I'd been able to lay down in the back seat, I would have.

The worst pain? Getting the damn epidural. OW OW OW. I screamed with an unearthly noise that was a cross between a cat in heat, nails on a chalkboard, a rusty hinge, and I don't even know what else.

But once it was in? Oh happy happy.

[likebunnies.livejournal.com]

For me, the 20 years I've had endometriosis have been worse than the 13 hours I was in labor. At least I knew that was going to end sooner or later and strong drugs were an option!

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

*pets*

Do you think the pain is caused by the IUD or the endo or what? I saw an advert for Mirena on TV last night and immediately thought of you!

[alya1989262.livejournal.com]

Dude, that sounds awful. Are you sure you don't need to go to the hospital? Because that really sounds worrying.

*hugs and chocolate*

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Oh great. With my needle fear, I was really, REALLY scared of the thought of an epidural. Now I'm fucking terrified!!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

That is somehow comforting. I don't know why. LOL!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Definitely the IUD. I don't feel this pain otherwise.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I'm considering ringing up the hospital that put the fucker in on Monday and talking about getting to see a gynaecologist as an emergency cause I can't put up with much more of this.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

So are you planning to get the IUD removed, or is this something that's an initial side-effect and eventually goes away (the sooner the better)?

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Don't know yet.

[asweetdownfall.livejournal.com]

♥

I'm sorry, hon. :(

[sir-devans.livejournal.com]

If I could take your pain I would.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's very sweet! :) It's okay, it's gone now! :)

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

*hugs*