Sunday, February 17, 2008

Holy Abdominal Pain Batman!

Yesterday morning I got up to use the bathroom and all of the sudden this really sharp pain in my lower abdomen and back hit me. It made me want to puke too. I had to lay down on the cold bathroom floor to feel better. I woke Shawn up at 7 am and told him that I was in a lot of pain. He was wonderful, of course, and took great care of me. I thought maybe I was dehydrated since I've been through the pain of dehydration before and it was similar, but not the same. Once I drank some Gatorade, I seemed to feel a little bit better. The pain seemed to get a little better too if I was laying down as opposed to standing. Weird.

As the day went on, the pain would come and go. By about 8 pm the pain had come back with a vengeance. Side note: I hadn't really paid too much attention until now, but when I went to attend to my tampon I noticed that I really wasn't bleeding too much. Since I've gone off the pill my periods have consistently been heavy and I would for sure have been bleeding a lot by the second day of my period.

I look up my symptoms on WebMD and the consistent theme is miscarriage. They don't describe the pain, but they say you'll have "cramps." While we aren't sure that's what happened it does make sense as to why I would have some bleeding, but not much.

This morning I still feel achy in the same places, but not near as bad as yesterday. Maybe I'm on the mend. If it comes back today, I'm going to go to the doctor to get checked out. Why do these things always happen on the weekends when the doctor's offices are closed?

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