Stupid pain!

Yesterday, I started having this annoying sharp stabbing pain in my left side. It was almost rhythmic and it would be present for hours and then go away for hours. I went to bed early last night because I just got tired of it hurting.

This morning, I called my OB to find out what I could do and she said they wanted an ultrasound to be done. They wanted to rule out the chance that there was a 'twin' that got stuck in my ovary and wasn't visible at the last ultrasound because of it being so early. They scheduled me for a 2pm ultrasound and a 420pm OB appt. The ultrasound techs are amazing here, they have no problem showing you what they are looking at, and make you feel really comfortable even though it's some of the scariest times of a pregnancy.

She did an abdominal scan first, and I could see the little gummi bear but it was hard to make anything out. About the only thing  I could make out of the "blob" was the flickering of the heart. His little heartbeat is beating at 167 beats per minute. Then, she did a transvag and it was much easier to make out. She burned a picture onto a CD for me to bring home. You can see little arm buds and leg buds growing. Amazing how much they change in just 10 days. She's measuring 8w5d, such a little overachiever. ;)

The doctor believes that the pain is coming from the corpus luteum cyst. It grew from 1.5 cm last week to 3c cm. It's likely that the pain is the cyst stretching because they found no free fluid in my uterus to indicate it was leaking. If the pain intensifies, I'm to go to the ER because it goes to 5 cm, it can cause the ovary to twist on itself and that's not good.

She said everything looks good. Baby looks great, no concerns and to keep doing what I'm doing. The only thing I can do for the cyst is to take Tylenol or use a hot pack on it. I'll just struggle through and deal with it- I am just glad to know it's nothing major.