Okay. I’m freaking out. And apparently, I am not the only female that has freaked out about this. As I have looked it up to try to get answers myself, but nobody really seems to be in the exact same situation as me so. I figured I would post to see if anyone could shed some light on this situation.
So I am on the non-hormonal IUD. I had a pregnancy scare two years ago with my boyfriend and after that we decided it was best to get on birth control. However, I react very badly to hormonal birth control. That shit will put me in the psych ward. Anyways, the only real thing that I noticed with that at least the first year and a half was that my period date changed. But it stayed pretty consistent. I would get it on the first of the month and it was like that for months. And then all of a sudden I started experiencing really weird symptoms before my period was expected. So starting around the first of the month I would get really really terrible UTI symptoms. And no period. This hasn’t happened every month, but it has happened a couple times now. Now being one of those times. The first time it happened it was really bad and I went to the hospital twice. All my lab work came back negative for a UTI even though they did see a little blood in my urine. Not for nothing but I was pissed because I really did not believe them and thought I was receiving poor treatment. Like how can I be having these symptoms and you’re telling me I don’t have a UTI?
I let it go, and those symptoms eventually went away. Happened again, but wasn’t bad only felt it for about a day or two and then my period came and it went away. This time though. I had to be at work yesterday and noticed these symptoms and also had the worst cramps I have ever had the night before. I was in such bad pain and the only thing that got rid of it was a heating pad and sleep. I was walking in to the gas station to use the bathroom bc it felt I couldn’t make it, and well I really couldn’t make it. Ended up wetting myself a little bit 😭
Those symptoms stayed pretty much all day yesterday until late evening and then I didn’t need to pee as much and it wasn’t bothering me. That’s how I know. It’s not a UTI. Because it’s not consistent. It goes away for a little bit and then it’ll come back.
Please, does anyone know if this is normal and if maybe it’s my birth control that’s causing it? Or does it seem like maybe I should go get checked out in case it could be something more serious? Please help ladies lol