The pain was horrific, indescribable. I’d had no information from the hospital so no idea what to expect. Didn’t seem odd – I assumed what was being done was nothing to worry about.
When “biopsy” was mentioned, alarm bells rang. I’d had one years earlier and never forgotten it, it was awful. I asked about pain but was reassured by the hysteroscopist over and over again, so I went ahead. I had injections into my cervix. It was agony. I thought, well (a bit like at the dentists’), that’ll be the worst of the pain over and worth it to make the rest of the procedure painless. I couldn’t have