"Barbaric Hysteroscopy"

I was totally unprepared for this procedure. I followed the leaflet to a tee, trusted in the professionals, gave my concerns of a medical condition. I was made to believe I’d have mild cramps and slight discomfort. No, excruciating pain and a room full of people who seemed de-sensitised to the pain experienced by some women, as they put it.

Excruciating pain must be addressed and recorded, not ignored. Factors to be considered by professionals must be personal patient medical history, patient age, post or pre-menopause status, medical conditions, tools used, size of tools used and most of all the method used by the consultant.

This is undoubtedly the most traumatic episode/procedure I have ever experienced in my entire life - it felt medieval, barbaric, de-humanising, degrading and most of all an excruciating, all consuming pain. Two weeks on the trauma is still there, and the discomfort remains.

It’s 2022, is this modern patient care? Live surgery in the womb without simple adequate pain relief? 

The consultants letter-slight pain on dilation-did they have the surgery or did I? Deceptive at the very least.