Lesson learned

You should always read the drug inserts from the pharmacy very carefully before you take the drugs. After spending the day feeling off, having strange, numb, tingling feelings and random aches throughout my body, googling the heck out of methergine side effects and talking to two random nurses and a totally useless on-call OB, I finally noticed in the drug info packet that methergine is counter-indicated when you have Raynaud's syndrome. Raynaud's is a circulation problem where your blood vessels constrict and your fingers and/or toes turn numb and white and then red and blue when you're cold or anxious. I've had it since I was in college. It's generally just uncomfortable (and sometimes freaks other people out) and no big deal and not something it would have occurred to me to tell the doctor this morning. He asked if I had high blood pressure, but nothing else.

I'm definitely not taking any more of that! It took almost 11 hours after I took one dose before I stopped feeling like my teeth might vibrate out of my head. This morning I still feel a little shaky from it. It's a very weird feeling and hard to describe. I told my RE's office about it this morning so they can make a note that I shouldn't take that anymore... So, now I have to go down for another u/s next week to make sure my uterus emptied out on it's own since I couldn't finish the regimen.

I guess I'm already back to weekly probing.