It is a very painful procedure. I took ibuprofen the day before every 6 hours as directed by my referring pcp and 3 ibuprofen before the procedure. The procedure lasts about 60-90 seconds. I feel like I have a very high pain tolerance and it was very hard to breath through. I don't understand why there isn't an option for pain control for this procedure. Ask your Dr if you can have something to help with pain. I am sure this post is scary to you and I am sorry. Hopefully because you have this information you can get something to help with the pain. Eitherway get the biopsy!!! You need the results!!!
Decades ago I had a cervical biopsy and was totally unprepared for the pain, as I was never told ahead of time what to expect. (I never returned to that physician.)
Why hasn’t the medical profession figured out how to make these procedures less painful? Or is it the insurance companies who don’t want to pay?
(My insurance would not pay for lidocaine cream to use for my port infusions. I ended up getting it through Good Rx for $11.)
Extremely painful. I had one then the second I had in connection with a colonoscopy. The third I had they somehow got me anesthetic. Barbaric practice. Seek options. Read an article and some women don't experience this way, just some cramps. Others said it was worse than childbirth. Has to do with the density of the tissue of your cervix as I understand it. Try Raspberry leaf tea to soften the cervix.
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It is a very painful procedure. I took ibuprofen the day before every 6 hours as directed by my referring pcp and 3 ibuprofen before the procedure. The procedure lasts about 60-90 seconds. I feel like I have a very high pain tolerance and it was very hard to breath through. I don't understand why there isn't an option for pain control for this procedure. Ask your Dr if you can have something to help with pain. I am sure this post is scary to you and I am sorry. Hopefully because you have this information you can get something to help with the pain. Eitherway get the biopsy!!! You need the results!!!
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1 ReactionDecades ago I had a cervical biopsy and was totally unprepared for the pain, as I was never told ahead of time what to expect. (I never returned to that physician.)
Why hasn’t the medical profession figured out how to make these procedures less painful? Or is it the insurance companies who don’t want to pay?
(My insurance would not pay for lidocaine cream to use for my port infusions. I ended up getting it through Good Rx for $11.)
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1 ReactionExtremely painful. I had one then the second I had in connection with a colonoscopy. The third I had they somehow got me anesthetic. Barbaric practice. Seek options. Read an article and some women don't experience this way, just some cramps. Others said it was worse than childbirth. Has to do with the density of the tissue of your cervix as I understand it. Try Raspberry leaf tea to soften the cervix.