Hysteroscopy

[Anonymous]

Mine was super easy and uneventful. Glad I hadn’t read anything on here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm having one done tomorrow in office. Will report back.

I’m back. I had the procedure this morning and it was painless. I’d read too many horror stories about having this done as an in-office procedure and I’m so glad my doctor took pain management seriously. My doctor did find one polyp and she took two samples to send off for testing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:General anesthesia is likely twilight, right?

No, these are two different things entirely. One's a gas and the other is an IV infusion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm having one done tomorrow in office. Will report back.

I’m back. I had the procedure this morning and it was painless. I’d read too many horror stories about having this done as an in-office procedure and I’m so glad my doctor took pain management seriously. My doctor did find one polyp and she took two samples to send off for testing.

I am glad it was painless.

[Anonymous]

I am going to have my hysteroscopy on 16th. For those who had this procedure. Did you have any pain after 5 days. We are planning universal studios from 21st-25th. Not going to be very active at the park but worried about some extra walking. My procedure is to remove the polyps and take a sample from my uterus line for biopsy purpose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am going to have my hysteroscopy on 16th. For those who had this procedure. Did you have any pain after 5 days. We are planning universal studios from 21st-25th. Not going to be very active at the park but worried about some extra walking. My procedure is to remove the polyps and take a sample from my uterus line for biopsy purpose.

Mine was uneventful—no pain after. I posted upthread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I had one to have three polyps removed. No long-term side effects and as far as I know, polyps haven’t come back. I had it done as an in-office procedure because I was trying to conceive and didn’t want to wait to do the procedure in the hospital. The only downside to that was there was no anesthesia used (not even local), but honestly the pain was bearable and then it was just done. I’d recommend getting the procedure.

Where did you get this done, the UK? Most US docs use anesthesia of some sort

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you sure its really needed?

I am trying not to but the doctor is seeing a tiny mass in my uterus line which needs to get biopsy done. And my very heavy bleeding is another thing which is causing concern.
Why shouldn’t I go for hysteroscopy?

It sounds like in your case it’s justified. Have you gotten an in office biopsy? If you haven’t, it’s probably just because your ultrasound results were bad enough that they want to skip straight to the hysteroscopy and spare you an office biopsy.

You can always ask for a second opinion

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I had one to have three polyps removed. No long-term side effects and as far as I know, polyps haven’t come back. I had it done as an in-office procedure because I was trying to conceive and didn’t want to wait to do the procedure in the hospital. The only downside to that was there was no anesthesia used (not even local), but honestly the pain was bearable and then it was just done. I’d recommend getting the procedure.

When was your procedure done? Now my doctor is saying that it will be general anesthesia. If I heard it right?

I am a different poster, but one thing I found out when I went through all this is that some doctors insist on general anesthesia and someone will do it with MAC propofol.

The two doctors affiliated with Sibley seemed to want to do it with general anesthesia, which generally involves intubation.

MAC propofol is what you probably got with your colonoscopy if you’ve had one. No intubation unless there’s some sort of emergency that arises.

Where do you live? I can give you suggestions about which ones wanted to do a general anesthesia and which ones were willing to do it with propofol.

In the UK, they were often do it without any anesthesia and there are some doctors who would do that in the US, but they are harder to find.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am going to have my hysteroscopy on 16th. For those who had this procedure. Did you have any pain after 5 days. We are planning universal studios from 21st-25th. Not going to be very active at the park but worried about some extra walking. My procedure is to remove the polyps and take a sample from my uterus line for biopsy purpose.

I have had two done during IVF and felt completely back to normal/returning to work as a teacher within a day or two.

Barring any complications, I don’t think you’ll have a problem with the trip 5 days later. I know everyone is different but other than a bit of nausea and slight cramping/spotting the day of, I had no other side effects. Hope it goes well! ❤️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm having one done tomorrow in office. Will report back.

I’m back. I had the procedure this morning and it was painless. I’d read too many horror stories about having this done as an in-office procedure and I’m so glad my doctor took pain management seriously. My doctor did find one polyp and she took two samples to send off for testing.

What sort of anesthesia was used?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am going to have my hysteroscopy on 16th. For those who had this procedure. Did you have any pain after 5 days. We are planning universal studios from 21st-25th. Not going to be very active at the park but worried about some extra walking. My procedure is to remove the polyps and take a sample from my uterus line for biopsy purpose.

I have had two done during IVF and felt completely back to normal/returning to work as a teacher within a day or two.

Barring any complications, I don’t think you’ll have a problem with the trip 5 days later. I know everyone is different but other than a bit of nausea and slight cramping/spotting the day of, I had no other side effects. Hope it goes well! ❤️

Thanks so much. That’s so relieving to know.

[Anonymous]

I had a couple. First time doc removed a few benign polyps. Those didn't to come back but 10 years later I had different ones. I was glad to have the procedures done because my mother had uterine cancer and sporadic bleeding freaked me out.
I sometimes have snippable benign polyps hanging from my cervix on stalks, gyn does those in office. Some of us are just polypy.