7w5d – And the Spotting Continues!
Was planning, last night, on posting today how happy I was to have gone 24 hours with no spotting.
Hah.
And then I went to the bathroom after dinner and had a small heart attack. I am starting to wonder if it’s cervical irritation, rather than anything else. I sure am shoving a lot of medication up there on a thrice-daily basis, so maybe I’m just not being careful enough to steer clear of Ms. Sensitive Cervix.
Bitch.
Bleeding bitch.
In other craptastic news, I got called on my day off to go into the Realm of Pain today. I am not pleased. Actually, I threw what could only be called a tantrum yesterday, both on the phone to the assistant manager who was tasked with making the call, and then after I all but threw the phone across the room, in front of my poor, long-suffering husband. The Princess is being vindictive and making me pay for admitting that I’d rather be anywhere than in her reach. I just want out of this situation, internets. It’s only getting worse.
Going to go analyze toilet paper one last time before I have to go ride the Train of Doom to the Realm of Pain so I can take abuse and witness the craziness of the Princess of Romania.
It sounds like more fun when I type it out like that. Humor me. This is my life. Sheesh.
F – I am so sorry that you are spotting – that is wretched. I hope that the Princess is tolerable. People like that are a mixed bag – at least you have someone to whom all of your stresses can be vented and not your loved ones!
It certainly does sound more fun. So sorry for THAT. Also, the spotting. Sounds like you’re considering hopping back on the crazy train, which I totally get. I’ve been there. Hoping the train is on the way to a doctor’s appt.
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I hate that you are dealing with spotting again. I hope that goes away and you have a long and healthy pregnancy because you definately deserve it.
I work in an office full of crazy people so I feel your pain. I’ve outlasted 2 crazy manager bitches that made my life hell after my first loss, and in a couple of weeks I’ll be free of smarmy lttle bastard who likes to run to HR and make up crap about me and other people he doesn’t like. After the third person he turned into HR was able to prove he was lying they finally believed us. He was just trying to distract people so nobody would notice his latest underhand, backstabing move until it was too late. Now people don’t flinch when he tries to stir things up so he is taking his crazy a$$ act on the road to another company in a couple of weeks. I pray that you will get that lucky!
I’ll be channeling an invisible force field of protection from crazy to surround you and keep you sane.
Ugh…spotting just sucks. I’m so sorry. I think that you mentioned on a previous post that your ute had a lot of veins in it? Mine does as well. (Or did, for some reason they seem to come and go. Yeah, figure that one out.) Anyway, anything that irritates the cervix gives me a lovely bit of spotting. Good times.
Thinking of you and hoping that your spotting magically transfers to the Princess so she can really have something to be bitchy about!
Ew, its one thing to have to come in on your day off of work ANYWAYS and then to go there! Take notes on index cards while there to file away for your next great american novel! She sounds like someone who needs to be incorporated as a character!
So so sorry about the spotting- I’m confident its nothing (you’re thinking- why isn’t it wonderful you’re so confident good for YOU!) but I really do hope its just the cervix getting irritated. if you’re taking lovenox that just makes things worse up there, everytime I have a pelvic exam or sometimes even a transvag u/s I have some spotting so considering you’re using suppositories it makes sense you’re getting more irritation. Still- I hope it goes away very very soon.
This really sucks. I know it is impossible to ignore, but I think your diagnosis of an irritated cervix is spot on. (No pun intended.)
It does sound like some kind of Halloween adventure when you write it that way.
Hope your weekend is better.
What a pain to have to go in on your day off! No fair!!! Don’t suppose there is any hope the Princess will transfer?
Spotting sounds really scary, but having “placed” my first i-v pills in there last night I could totally see how that could get irritating.
Damned spotting, I am so sorry. It sucks to be perpetually under attack from ambiguous evidence of a something or a nothing. It eats the giddy and that sucks rocks.
Wish you were able to avoid the hell hole of work forever and work somewhere that your talents were appreciated and your life force somehow supported or at least not sucked dry. you should get hazard pay.
Found out where I’ll be the end of the month so I’ll send you an email.
For now? Sending big love S,
Kate
Have you been tested for yeast recently? I had a lot of spotting in early pregnancy and was diagnosed with that and a “pissed off cervix” as a result. Treated it and the spotting went away. Might be worth a shot?
Okay, Train of Doom and Realm of Pain do NOT sound conducive to non-spotting. Is it possible to get a doctor’s note and just go on bedrest? Maybe the reason you went without spotting for most of the day was because you weren’t out and about and going through all the Painful Doominess…Regardless, I hope it is for benign reasons and I hope it stops and I hope the Princess of Romania is not going to be in Sprog Kingdom for much longer AT ALL.
Love,
Maddy
Wow. Just getting caught up. Wishing you all the luck in the world. I hope your dreams come true.
Oh hon… I’m so sorry.
Hello,
First of all I wanted to say that I am impressed by your frankness on this blog. I have to say, your decision to reduce your twin pregnancy has been something I’ve thought a lot about. I know it is none of my business and I promise you I am not judging you in anyway, but it has made me think a lot and has brought up feelings I would not expect. I do appreciate your honesty and the nuances of your decision. So thank you for sharing.
One thing I’ve been wondering a lot about is if your afraid that reduction will lead to a miscarriage of your other embryo. I know that I was very worried about having to have an amnio because of the increased of miscarriage, and though I don’t know anything about reduction, I’m assuming their has to be a slightly increased risk of miscarriage of the other embryo. I know you’ve had a bumpy ride filled with anxiety due to your spotting, so I wondered if increased risk of miscarriage was something your worried about. I don’t mean to bring up something upsetting or be insensitive, I am genuinely curious.
Thank you again for your honesty on this topic. I hope I’m not overstepping my bounds in asking this, and I totally understand if I have and you don’t want to answer my question.
Susan Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Increased risk of miscarriage is a concern with any invasive procedure. Hell, at this point, increased risk of miscarriage is the first thing in my mind when I realize my purse weighs more than 10 pounds these days.
We’ll be doing CVS anyway and would be, even if this were a singleton. But I am lucky (?!) enough to live in NYC, where the top doc for CVS & SR lives and works. The risk is much less – especially with him – than it is for a twin pregnancy to go wrong, given my history & medical conditions. is there any way to know if I’m going to come in on the good or bad side of the risk? Not until we take that risk. And, um, yeah, of course increased risk is something I’m worried about, but honestly, given how much I’m spotting with this pregnancy, I’m seriously looking at it as a sign that my bod is not entirely thrilled to be carrying two, and I’m only at 8 weeks.
But I’m putting my faith – what faith I have – in numbers and in the fact that I am blessed to be able to be treated by the best doctor in the business. And I’m happy to discuss this. It’s a sucky sucky thing, and I think too many women allow themselves to be put into positions that are not the healthiest for them or for their children, because of the taboo of talking about this frankly. It’s a shitty place to be, and it’s a shitty thing to have to wrap your head around, especially if you have strongly differing views. I have been touched and astonished by the general level of respect and sensitivity that readers have displayed.