Carry-on- Clarky Dee #OutPatientHysteroscopyPainFreeNHS Mrs M🌱💚💙🌳 FEmISA - fibroids Hysteroscopy Action Liz Ardlicker 🙋‍♀️💁‍♀️🤷‍♀️ Elaine Falkner RoyalCollegeObsGyn Same here🥺 visibly jerking away, tears down my cheeks, making weird noises involuntarily but they didn’t stop. I couldn’t speak.

𝑫𝒓 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑨𝒓𝒊𝒇 I just underwent womb biopsy. Having suffered a very painful hysterosalpingogram 10yrs ago I dreaded it & was entirely unsurprised to, once again, have no pain relief offered or available. The closest I imagine for men is prostate biopsy without pain relief…it would never happen

Valerie (Val) Humphreys City St George's, University of London This doesn't fill me with confidence that hysteroscopy should ever be performed on patients who are awake. Women talking about 'managing' the pain or 'discomfort', self-dosing with painkillers before and after the procedure. The choice to continue, just to 'get it over with'...

Keir Starmer Do you guys want electric cars? Please repost for greater results.

youtube.com/watch?v=D01oJO… Dr Phil Hammond 💙 Wes Streeting misra budhoo This is how Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) City St George's, University of London treats women who need uterine endoscopy. Have a nice bath Take your own painkillers Relax Bring chants or recitations NO sedation NO anaesthesia NO guarantee Entonox

Medical misogyny exposed again on Good Morning Britain. Kelly Swingler has suffered decades from an ill-judged endometrial ablation. One of nearly 10,000 to have completed the Campaign Against Painful Hysteroscopy's "dissatisfaction" survey.

Today I had a hysteroscopy. This isn’t a criticism of the hospital staff, they were kind & professional. But the procedure was brutal, so much so, we had to abandon it. Please sign/share this petition from Hysteroscopy Action calling for adequate pain relief: chng.it/DrTQsJcxsf

“A surgeon who performed unnecessary bowel operations using artificial mesh on more than 200 patients - leaving dozens in agony - has been struck off” 💥 “The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service ordered for Dixon to be removed from the medical register. The tribunal report

Tartan Cushion Nikki McGee Hysteroscopy Action Yes. As an RN, I know how large the scopes are and they are not small at all. Solid metal and pushing through a non-dilated cervix causes excruciating pain to a woman and all should be anaesthetized.

😔these are common stories, that we hear repeatedly and we must STOP admiring the problem. Pain is NOT a given for gynaecological procedures. We must stop accepting it as patients and demand better as clinicians #medicalmisogyny

Hysteroscopy Action North Bristol NHS Trust V similar experience at Southmead in 2024. Was offered a GA but was told it would be inconvenient for me over "10 minutes of what feels like period pain". Was not offered gas & air or any pain relief on the day. I am traumatised at the thought of any gynaecology procedures now.

HOW WE LIE ABOUT PAIN. The truth is out. Gynaecologists are taught to lie about acute procedural pain and dismiss it as 'cramps', 'discomfort' etc. journalofethics.ama-assn.org/sites/joedb/fi… Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), BSGE, RoyalCollegeObsGyn The BMJ

Ash Paul Susan Bewley Carry-on- Clarky SEL David Oliver (also on Blue Sky) BSGE RoyalCollegeObsGyn Ranee Thakar NHS England Eddie Morris Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Jon Ungoed-Thomas Thomas Justin Clark Jim Thornton Dr Helgi Please apologise to the thousands of women who suffer the harrowing medical misogyny of no-anaesthesia hysteroscopy. "I have had insolvent trust clinicians DM me that up to 94% of their hospital patients have had hysteroscopy without anaesthesia without too much HOO HA."

Ash Paul Susan Bewley Carry-on- Clarky Hysteroscopy Action SEL David Oliver (also on Blue Sky) BSGE RoyalCollegeObsGyn Ranee Thakar NHS England Eddie Morris Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Jon Ungoed-Thomas Thomas Justin Clark Jim Thornton Dr Helgi With the greatest respect, I don't give a monkeys about the finances and am appalled that you are making statements like this. 1in3 outpatient hysteroscopy patients suffer severe pain; many without warning. I hope all women's health advocacy groups continue to shout louder!

Ash Paul Susan Bewley Carry-on- Clarky Hysteroscopy Action SEL David Oliver (also on Blue Sky) BSGE RoyalCollegeObsGyn Ranee Thakar NHS England Eddie Morris Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Jon Ungoed-Thomas Thomas Justin Clark Jim Thornton Dr Helgi The phrase "without too much hoo ha" shows utter contempt for women. It implies that asking to be given the same level of pain relief as men receive for endoscopies is just making a fuss and we should shut up and put up with the pain so 'more important' services can be funded.

Ash Paul Susan Bewley Carry-on- Clarky Hysteroscopy Action David Oliver (also on Blue Sky) BSGE RoyalCollegeObsGyn Ranee Thakar NHS England Eddie Morris Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Jon Ungoed-Thomas Thomas Justin Clark Jim Thornton Dr Helgi IMO I think you are the one doing the public insulting: calling 35% of women suffering severe pain in hysteroscopy as “not much [of a] hoo ha”. Do you believe women are uniquely built to tolerate severe pain? And must do so for the greater good of NHS finances?

Ash Paul Susan Bewley Carry-on- Clarky Hysteroscopy Action SEL David Oliver (also on Blue Sky) BSGE RoyalCollegeObsGyn Ranee Thakar NHS England Eddie Morris Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Jon Ungoed-Thomas Thomas Justin Clark Jim Thornton Dr Helgi If these clinicians your listening to are the same ones who define a hysteroscopy as "well tolerated" even when the patient vomited or passed out from pain, I'd take that 94% with a big pinch of salt...