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Well ladies, after spending however long psyching myself up, going through everything in my head etc and finally getting to the day I was meant to get answers, I didn't actually get any. 
Arrived at the hospital, got changed into the hospital gown, was asked all the normal questions and then finally went into the x-ray room.
The Dr (lovely lady) asked when DH and I last had sex, I told her Sunday and she then refused to do the HSG.
She told me I wasn't meant to have had sex til after the HSG was performed due to the risk of pregnancy. I explained we had infertility problemsrolleyes and that the chance of that was low...She asked how long we'd been TTC, my LMP and whether we'd been told about not having sex. I said of course not, otherwise we'd have refrained - the HSG was clearly more important than our hormonal urges.
She asked whether I was willing to risk damaging a pregnancy (got a bit pissed off but understood where she was coming from) and would I take a pregnancy test. I feel bad for saying it now but I said yes to both. I just wanted the bloody thing over with, I'd waited so long for answers, I just wanted to get somewhere.
She said she, personally, would not risk damaging a fertilised egg and was so going to refuse to perform the HSG and would phone my consultant and ask him to take responsibility and sign off on it if he would accept the risk. Sent back to the waiting room where I updated DH. Both got called back (for a minute thought she'd tell me the test was positive!) and she explained to DH again that we should have been told no sex and also as I was CD14, we should have been booked in before CD10. DH told her he argued this on the phone when booking me in on CD1, he told the secretary I was CD1 etc and she told him that as I "have PCOS, I can have 7 days grace on the CD10 rule".
He argued I'd not had confirmed PCOS but she was going on and on about it so he said if she was sure, then fine, book us in for asap. She never mentioned no sex or anything but she told the radiologist that we were lying and that she'd told us everything we needed to know.
The Dr told us that we shouldn't have been told that there was 7 days grace because there isn't and I assume it's because of the risk of pregnancy thing. She kept trying to explain ovulation dates to me and I kept telling her it was pointless, my cycles are usually 80-100+ days so it's pretty clear OV isn't happening but she was having none of it, telling me that I could get pregnant 72 hours after the Sunday that we'd BDed.
She told us we'd have to rebook for next cycle. I was absolutely gutted, told her I was unhappy about having to wait another 3-4 months and she kept apologising and she put lots of ****'s on my x-ray request form and wrote that I was a priority case. She surprised me further by giving DH her mobile number, telling him to call or text as soon as AF arrived (rather than go through the department) and she'd book as in for as soon as she could.
I was extremely peed off that the consultant's secretary would try and save her own arse by lying about this stuff, FFS I wanted to go and throttle the woman and tell her she had cocked this up for us big time!! I was soooo angry!!
So, ladies with PCOS/suspected PCOS, please don't accept it if you're told you can be booked in later than CD10, I wouldn't want for you to be cancelled on and then have to wait however long to be booked in again.
I'm definitely going to complain when we see the consultant. There was no mention of the no sex thing on any forms we were sent either.
Sorry for the long post.
HPT was negative by the way lol. Blood results not in yet either.
x x
Arrived at the hospital, got changed into the hospital gown, was asked all the normal questions and then finally went into the x-ray room.
The Dr (lovely lady) asked when DH and I last had sex, I told her Sunday and she then refused to do the HSG.
She told me I wasn't meant to have had sex til after the HSG was performed due to the risk of pregnancy. I explained we had infertility problems
rolleyes and that the chance of that was low...She asked how long we'd been TTC, my LMP and whether we'd been told about not having sex. I said of course not, otherwise we'd have refrained - the HSG was clearly more important than our hormonal urges. She asked whether I was willing to risk damaging a pregnancy (got a bit pissed off but understood where she was coming from) and would I take a pregnancy test. I feel bad for saying it now but I said yes to both. I just wanted the bloody thing over with, I'd waited so long for answers, I just wanted to get somewhere.
She said she, personally, would not risk damaging a fertilised egg and was so going to refuse to perform the HSG and would phone my consultant and ask him to take responsibility and sign off on it if he would accept the risk. Sent back to the waiting room where I updated DH. Both got called back (for a minute thought she'd tell me the test was positive!) and she explained to DH again that we should have been told no sex and also as I was CD14, we should have been booked in before CD10. DH told her he argued this on the phone when booking me in on CD1, he told the secretary I was CD1 etc and she told him that as I "have PCOS, I can have 7 days grace on the CD10 rule".
He argued I'd not had confirmed PCOS but she was going on and on about it so he said if she was sure, then fine, book us in for asap. She never mentioned no sex or anything but she told the radiologist that we were lying and that she'd told us everything we needed to know.
The Dr told us that we shouldn't have been told that there was 7 days grace because there isn't and I assume it's because of the risk of pregnancy thing. She kept trying to explain ovulation dates to me and I kept telling her it was pointless, my cycles are usually 80-100+ days so it's pretty clear OV isn't happening but she was having none of it, telling me that I could get pregnant 72 hours after the Sunday that we'd BDed.
She told us we'd have to rebook for next cycle.
I was absolutely gutted, told her I was unhappy about having to wait another 3-4 months and she kept apologising and she put lots of ****'s on my x-ray request form and wrote that I was a priority case. She surprised me further by giving DH her mobile number, telling him to call or text as soon as AF arrived (rather than go through the department) and she'd book as in for as soon as she could.I was extremely peed off that the consultant's secretary would try and save her own arse by lying about this stuff, FFS I wanted to go and throttle the woman and tell her she had cocked this up for us big time!! I was soooo angry!!
So, ladies with PCOS/suspected PCOS, please don't accept it if you're told you can be booked in later than CD10, I wouldn't want for you to be cancelled on and then have to wait however long to be booked in again.
I'm definitely going to complain when we see the consultant. There was no mention of the no sex thing on any forms we were sent either.
Sorry for the long post.
HPT was negative by the way lol. Blood results not in yet either.
x x
that's gutting! I feel so upset for you, really wanted you to get somewhere. Hope af comes earlier for you so you can get it booked again. Make sure you make some sort of complaint about the secretary, how dare she cover her own backside!!
