Please help me!

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Posting here for traffic

I’m having my coil fitted this morning. I’ve had two before and a baby (albeit by c section). Thing is, I’ve wound myself up about it to the point I want to cancel. I have somehow convinced myself that it’s going to be utterly awful and I am seriously getting anxious about it.

I know from my previous ones that it’s not the most fun 10 minutes ever and I will have a bitch of a cramp later but I am really catastrophising in my mind and very close to calling the clinic to back out...

Please tell me I am being ridiculous/tell me reassuring stories

It’s totally fine, and way easier to handle than an unplanned pregnancy!

Argh, I know. Putting on my big girl pants!

Mirena?
Ask the doc to split their kick back with you.
That'll distract things.

@TheQueef
Thankfully the non-hormonal alternative!

Ah shame, sharing the money over a pint is a good ice breaker!
Hopefully it's in now and went well?
Make sure you wear pjs for the rest of the day and eat treats

@TheQueef all done now thank goodness. About as bad as I remember DH is at home today so he is on baby duty whilst I eat chocolate

The nurse did have a quite a long rant about how men can’t be trusted with the simplest thing so women have to go through all the pain!

I had a local anaesthetic with the second fitting. Much better than without.

Don't forget to milk it. DH will never truly understand the pleasure of being in stirrups while some medic sticks a plastic ratchet up your flue but you can educate him.

@TheQueef I may have milked it too much...yesterday was OK but I played it up, today I have the mother of all cramps and DH is much less sympathetic

And, it may be that my cramps are making me grumpy, but I am stewing over the fact the nurse “while she was up there” (lovely) swabbed for an STI screen. That I didn’t ask for, and they knew I didn’t need.