Faith,
symptoms ah? hmm let me think, I get real sleepy and tired cause of the progesterone pills. Other than that, I felt the same but happier cause its like a relief for me after ttc-ing for 1 yr plus with no sound no colour. I did my BT on DPO15.
JC,
I cannot speak for IVF cause I never done it b4, but if u are saying SO-IUI, actually if u poke urself correctly and with the correct technique, there will not be bruises de cause its baby needle they are using. my tum tum pretty pretty no bruise and no mark at all
there are specific areas which u have to poke (ie. the area around ur naval). the trick not to have bruises is to pinch one lump of fat, swipe the sterilise swab over ur tum tum and before ur dh poke u, breath in and then he poke (contine breathing), before he pull out the needle, u put a new sterilised swab onto the jab area (dont wipe) then take deep breath again, he pull out needle.
once u poke in, dont move the needle around and after he take out the needle, dont use the cotton swab to wipe the area leave the previous one there and remove it after a while
This is the tips the nurses taught me and I included the breathing part myself cause everytime I go take blood test for my thyroid, the nurse say take deep breath everytime she poke and remove the needle so no pain can be felt
Dont keep making urself fearful of the process cause of what u saw and eventually it became a mental barrier. Personally, i prefer reading success stories to motivate myself to go thru it and I guess the burning desire to have a baby pushes me to just do it dont think so much.
Jia you yah