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I don't discount her pain, but I had a hysteroscopy without any anesthesia in a doctor's office. Drove myself there and home. I can't say how many women have problems with it. I wonder if the skill of the doctor performing the procedure plays a role?
I had some other biopsies done under ultrasound guidance (not gynecological), one quite painful, the other pain free. In those cases, I felt one radiologist was far more skilled than the other.
I'd be surprised if skill level didn't play a part in it, plus variation in each woman's body in terms of how much it hurts and how much she can tolerate.
A problem is how dismissive the medical industry is of women's pain. If they were able to prove skill level definitively affected how much it hurt, would inadequately skilled doctors who caused pain but still got the procedure done actually retrain in the procedure, or would they just dismiss it as women needing to suck it up? =\
Good point. My guess is if you weren't as skilled you wouldn't want to admit it.
Couldn’t read it, it was behind a paywall!
I don't know how the NHS works, but I'm calling everloving bullshit on the "inability" to sedate for outpatient procedures. Different situation, but I've had transesophageal echocardiograms, angiograms, and two atrial ablations as an outpatient -- all involved feeding catheters, cameras, and tubes down my throat and into various veins and arteries all under sedation with no overnight stay.
Something short-acting like propofol would be perfect for these procedures. It sounds like what they're really saying is they don't want to bother with having an anesthesiologist present, and women should be used to having things shoved into their vaginas anyway. Fucking barbarous.