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Rebecca
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Ferneyhough
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Matron for quality and safety
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University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
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Painful hysteroscopy
Beckyish replied to Claire Cox's topic in Patient stories
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I too had a traumatic experience and until reading these posts didn’t appreciate how many woman also felt like I did. I struggled with a hysteroscopy in an outpatient environment. They were able to diagnose uterine polyps that were causing my irregular bleeding. They couldn’t complete the treatment at the first appointment as my care had been outsourced and there wasn’t provision to complete the extra treatment required. As I had struggled with the pain I was told the next appointment would involve a general anaesthetic. On arrival to my follow up appointment I was consented a local anaesthetist for the procedure I knew I’d already had. There was no record of the procedure I’d already undergone and the findings and no record of how I’d struggled to cope with the pain. I was told that if he found the same things during this hysteroscopy they would remove the polyp there and then…. Not wanting to be cancelled and have to wait longer I agreed. The pain was unbearable … a struggled to cope, the surgeon had to stop to ask me to try and relax to allow him to continue. I’d been offered a GA and I wish I’d declined consent to continue… I certainly would not consent to a local if I required further intervention.- Posted
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