Pain Relief during IUD procedures

[1stWorldProblems]

Apologies if this has already been covered - the search facility doesn't seem to be working today on MN. I know that Caitlin Moran is a bit of Marmite person for Mumsnet (& even for me some days) but today's Times magazine is a) laugh out loud funny in parts and b) made think about something I'd just taken for granted as a given - why is it that coil insertions & removals are done with out any offer of pain relielf? It never just "hurts a bit" and leaves me feeling physically odd for several days after.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-we-all-need-pain-relief-when-having-an-iud-fitted-7qks82srw

She has recently had a particularly bad procedure and has been tweeting about a petition by Lucy Cohen calling for more information & pain relief for the procedure. This bit made me laugh out loud

"Interestingly, several who worked in the medical industry pointed out that during colonoscopies – a unisex procedure – people are offered either gas and air or sedation. In many ways a colonoscopy is similar to an IUD insertion – doctors are putting something up one of your special, private holes. The big difference between the two is in scale and accessibility. The sphincter is essentially like the Blackwall Tunnel; it’s built for daily traffic. It’s a well-travelled route, open 24/7.

The cervix, on the other hand, is a bit like my nanna’s sitting room. The door was always closed, it was only used on “special” occasions, and she’d be quite agitated that someone might break something precious while they were in there. She was relieved when everyone left."

[TurquoiseLemur]

@olivethegreat

I'd rather be told some people find it painful tbh. I've had more mammograms than smears and don't mind them at all or have anything like pain but anything involving my cervix will in future be done under GA! We obviously all have very different sensitivities in different areas so it is not ok to be told that most women find something ok, because those women do not have my body so that info is irrelevant to me.

Exactly, we all have different bodies.

The "Most women don't feel pain" thing is almost certainly inaccurate and is definitely dismissive of other experiences. It's like saying, as official people sometimes do when complained to, "No-one else has complained." These are both defensive responses and they both dismiss (deliberately or not) people's valid experiences.

[InkieNecro]

I don't think that pretending to someone that what you're about to do to them is going to be mildly uncomfortable when you know that some people end up shaking, screaming and fainting is ethical.

[TurquoiseLemur]

@InkieNecro

I don't think that pretending to someone that what you're about to do to them is going to be mildly uncomfortable when you know that some people end up shaking, screaming and fainting is ethical.

Agree 100%, it isn't.

[olivethegreat]

They're talking about this on BBC breakfast now (0636) . Naga again

[olivethegreat]

Really great item. Basically three women including a GP saying what we are saying on this thread - GP saying the whole structure around gynaecological care is misogynistic.

[Pandoraslastchance]

So how do we go about changing this?