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I've just had a hysteroscopy. This procdure uses a fine telescope called a hysteroscope. It allows your doctor to look into your womb and take a biopsy.
I wasn't warned that I was going to have this done and I was reassured by my gynaecologist that it was a minor procedure that would be nothing more than slightly uncomfortable.

I've got a high pain threshold, even so, I asked that my husband could be with me to hold my hand. I wasn't ready for what was about to happen. It was as though she'd put rotating blade inside me and was drilling her way in. I was crying with the shock of such excruciating pain that seemed to go on forever.

After it was over I couldn't stop crying; I felt like I'd just been brutalized and I felt angry that she hadn't warned me properly of just how awful this procedure is. As I walked through into reception my body broke out into a cold sweat and I felt like I wanted to vomit. My body was going into shock and my husband was shouting for assistance. So they wheeled me off to the recovery room and the nurse that came and sat with me told me, "this isn't uncommon. You are having a Vagus Nerve reaction".

Then the pain started. I recognised that pain and anyone here who's had a baby knows what it feels like to be in the final stages of labour just before you want to push. They've got a fan on me, a sick bowl under my chin and wet cold clothes on my face and I'm doubled over in pain and my entire body shaking uncontrollably.

I'm home now but I can't stop crying at what just happened to me. I've lost all trust for my gynaecologist and will never again believe a doctor telling me a procedure will only be mildly uncomfortable.

If any of you here are offered a hysteroscopy without anaesthetic, I would strongly recommend you ask for it to be done whilst you're asleep.