Hello
I'm sorry to hear that so many women have had such a horrendous experience with hysteroscopy. I had breast cancer and experienced some abnormal bleeding when I came off tamoxifen so I was expedited on a 2 week wait pathway for a diagnostic hysteroscopy to rule out endometrial carcinoma.
I had the procedure yesterday at Royal Lancaster Infirmary and had no problems with it at all. I was in and out within 20 minutes. It wasn't the most comfortable position in the world to be in (!) and it felt a bit like having a smear test with some extra bits added. In fact, they did a smear while they were at it so I got two for the price of one, lol! Given that they were putting a camera in my uterus and taking a biopsy, I expected much worse. It was fascinating to look at my endometrium on the screen and the gynaecologist and the two nurses who helped were brilliant. The local anaesthetic stung a bit and the biopsy was a bit painful but not awful. The doctor told me to wiggle my toes when she was about to do something a bit painful and that helped a lot! The nurses were very encouraging and told me how well I was doing. I am also very lucky because my endometrium looked normal so I'm not in a terrible state waiting for the biopsy results as I expect they will be nothing to worry about (how different from breast clinic, where it was obvious from the start that something was horribly wrong).
I was warned about cramping afterwards and some bloody/watery discharge which I was expecting anyway. My tummy is a bit sore today but nowhere near as bad as I was expecting.
So, I would recommend the RLI and Dr Sambrook. She was brilliant.
