Reading all these testimonials is both comforting and horrifying. I didn't get the procedure in UK but in France and it was the worst pain I've ever experienced in my life. And I didn't even go all the way through with it - I fainted and came back (they still didn't stop) then I had an anxiety attack. Anxiety attack manifest in full body tetany with me, so they had to stop.
Every doctor I've talked to about it told me it would be like period cramps. What an unimaginable lie. I read someone describing it has having your something cut from within, that's what it felt like. On top of being excruciatingly painful, I felt violated. The days that followed I was in a daze and kept bursting in tears.
The pain that followed the days after was no walk in the park, I had fainting spells, terrible cramps and feeling like someone was punching me from inside.
It has been two months and I still cannot have intercourse without being in pain afterwards. I still have to get an appointment but they probably did some damage, I'd imagine at best some scars in the uterus.
I would never had undergone that procedure if I had known. At least not without proper anesthesia. It is also probably because of my very understandable reaction of panic that something got damaged down there - probably from the instruments still being in me as I had my tetany attack. Any post checkup ? Of course not.
Gynecology is goddamn shame.
