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I fully endorse everything Anna Moore writes in her excellent article on the lack of pain relief for hysteroscopies (\u2018It was barbaric. I was crying my eyes out\u2019: why are so many women left in agony by routine womb examinations?, 16 August).<\/p>\n
I have had three of these barbaric procedures, two of them being associated with being on hormone replacement therapy (HRT). All three were administered with very basic pain relief, ie a small amount of local anaesthetic, which I would compare to numbing a gum with a piece of ice and then proceeding with root canal treatment. I was offered a general anaesthetic on the third occasion, but this is way too much. At no point was anything else offered, like it is for\u00a0colonoscopies.<\/p>\n
I feel the system is biased against women. The hysteroscopies were much worse than childbirth for me \u2013 it was zero dilation to full dilation in no time at all. As a result of my three awful experiences, I came off HRT, because I have no wish to experience this ever again.<\/p>\n
In the 21st century, the NHS should be offering women a bit more than a paracetamol and the equivalent of a bit of ice. A bit of dignity would also help \u2013 a recovery space perhaps? Or even treat us like men who have colonoscopies. Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I fully endorse everything Anna Moore writes in her excellent article on the lack of pain relief for hysteroscopies (\u2018It was barbaric. I was crying my eyes out\u2019: why are so many women left in agony by routine womb examinations?, 16 August). I have had three of these barbaric procedures, two of them being associated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[2007,37,25198,1527,4224,1050,415,418,1214],"class_list":{"0":"post-51859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-brutal","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-hysteroscopies","11":"tag-pain","12":"tag-putting","13":"tag-relief","14":"tag-stop","15":"tag-women","16":"tag-womens"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Carole Kendall<\/strong>
Letchworth<\/em>, Hertfordshire<\/em><\/p>\n