Hey, ladies!

I wanted to share my experience with the HSg. I had been told by one friend that it “doesn’t exactly tickle” and by another that “it feels like hot coffee is poured up your vagina.”

While I don’t intend to discount the experiences of these two lovely ladies, I do want to share that mine was not like this at all.

It took awhile to check in (cuz Covid) and I was in the waiting room for at least 30 minutes, time that served only to increase my anxiety.

I was finally brought into the exam room, where the medical assistant provided me with a hospital gown and socks with grippies. I went and changed in the exam room’s tiny bathroom, but it didn’t occur to me to put the socks on. I wasn’t sure when I was supposed to do that.

I got on the exam table and was told to scoot down like it was a Pap, and the doctor came in and used a speculum that had seemingly come straight from an ice box in the arctic. She opened me up and inserted a tube, and put some liquid in it so the cameras could see my insides better.

This caused some mild discomfort, but no more so than a speculum normally does.

The only part that sucked was when she reached what felt like a 90° left turn in me and had to shove that tube to get it to turn. This felt like cramping. Extreme cramping, like your worst moments of cramping, but no more so than that. This lasted maybe 20-30 seconds and then they took some X-ray photos and I was done.

They provided me with one of those amazingly uncomfortable diaper-sized pads as they did cause some mild bleeding, and the brown liquid was trickling out.

I was mildly sore for maybe 10 minutes, but was fine to drive back to my office and continue working the rest of the day.

So, all in all, not a bad experience at all. I was in the facility for like 90 minutes, but only in the exam room for maybe 10. Don’t be scared, ladies; it’s really not that bad.