Spotting before an Ultrasound Will they do it?

[theallnewme]

My period has decided it must try to ruin my life and has picked today the day of my internal ultrasound to show it's ugly head.

Does anyone have experience with this? Will they still do the ultrasound my appointment is in an hour :/

[luthien]

They will still do it, don't worry. Just mention it to the nurse when they take you through to get changed etc.

They'll ask you not to wear a tampon, or a cup, just stick to a pad. You'll remove your knickers so they may put a protector underneath you as you're on your period.

With mine they had a kind of protector over the transvaginal ultrasound device so I guess they remove that and add a new one.

Take a painkiller or two a bit before your ultrasound if your cramps are bad.

Hope all goes okay x

[theallnewme in reply to luthien]

Thank you so much! Put me at ease a bit!

[luthien in reply to theallnewme]

The most embarrassing bit I have with stuff like that is actually mentioning I'm on my period! but when you think about it they've had that happen loads of times

[theallnewme in reply to luthien]

Very true 😂 I'm just awkward all round with problems like this 😂

[luthien in reply to theallnewme]

how'd it go?

[theallnewme in reply to luthien]

Very well! They did the scan no problem still waiting on results though apparently could be waiting a week 🤦‍♀️

[luthien in reply to theallnewme]

Ah I guess it gets sent to your specialist?

Don't be surprised if ultrasounds don't show endo, it'll show adhesions where organs have stuck to each other. Endo doesn't show on scans unless its quite dense so any scan isn't really the best diagnosis and not formally recognised. The formal diagnosis is a laparoscopy as they need to visually see it. So if you really want to know if you have endo, where it is, what it's doing and how much there is you'll need the diagnostic lap with an endo specialist, then discuss next steps.

Mine was done by an ultrasound doc so discussed the findings there and sent my scans to my endo specialist whom had a chat about them at my next appointment which I think was about two weeks later. I already had suspected endo so they were checking for PCOS and any issues there could be before doing the lap a few weeks later.

[theallnewme in reply to luthien]

Unfortunately it's just my GP I'm waiting for it to be sent to even though it was done at the practice it's done by an external company -_- it's a pain. Still heard nothing if I don't hear by tomorrow I'll give them a call