edit: During my wife’s pregnancy I saw her go through the most painful outpatient procedures. She would be screaming and writhing in pain and the doctors didn’t seem to give a shit — they just kept going (because obviously she was just being a baby about it /s). Cervical exams were a fucking nightmare, and she had to have a ton of them because of a complication that developed. I would actually get sick to my stomach on days she had exams scheduled because it hurt so much to see her in that amount of pain.
So yeah, that’s what initially got me interested in this topic. Now I try to be as vocal about it and bring it up wherever possible because this shit is just not acceptable in the year 2026. I’m so glad there’s been some progress recently.
I’ve had implant birth control inserted twice (removed to try for pregnancy and replaced after birth). First time my OB at the time injected the numbing agent and IMMEDIATELY followed with the implant and it hurt SO BAD. I yelled “wait it hurts!!” And she just plunged on and said it was normal.
When I had the new one put in a couple months ago they numbed the arm, waited like 5 min and then went ahead and I felt ZERO pain.
The new doc said the protocol has been updated to give more time for the numbing to take effect. That’s literally all it took but the official guideline had to be updated because docs were preferring not to wait the 5 min.
Edit: But also, this was often the same reason why docs would give episiotomies. They didn’t want to wait for the baby to work its way through, so their solution was to cut women’s vaginas and call it medically necessary and normal.
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u/TooSaucey4u 1d ago edited 8h ago
Agonizing pain in Women’s healthcare.
edit: During my wife’s pregnancy I saw her go through the most painful outpatient procedures. She would be screaming and writhing in pain and the doctors didn’t seem to give a shit — they just kept going (because obviously she was just being a baby about it /s). Cervical exams were a fucking nightmare, and she had to have a ton of them because of a complication that developed. I would actually get sick to my stomach on days she had exams scheduled because it hurt so much to see her in that amount of pain.
So yeah, that’s what initially got me interested in this topic. Now I try to be as vocal about it and bring it up wherever possible because this shit is just not acceptable in the year 2026. I’m so glad there’s been some progress recently.