Transvaginal U/S

MoMandA

I posted this somewhere else too but since I know all of you have had one of these please tell me what you think. I am totally fine if what you think is that I am a cry baby.

I had a dildo-cam ultrasound at a radiology lab today. With the twins I had 2 one by my RE and one by a tech at a high risk genetics lab. During my two prior exams it didn't hurt at all. In fact, when my RE told me that it was twins I didn't even know that she inserted the wand. This time it really hurt.

The tech was super careful not to see me naked. I put a sheet on and she came in the room, handed me the wand, and made me insert it. She proceeded to make her top priority not disrupting the sheet. To ensure that she didn't see anything she placed a ton of pressure inside of me whenever she reangled or moved around. This is weird, right?

Edit: I wasn't as weird with her having me insert it as I was with the fact that she balanced her weight inside of me because she didn't want to move the sheet and see anything.

kaitley44

Wow, that sounds horrible. Sound to me like she needs to suck it up and just look what she is doing. Maybe she has not done very many transvaginal ultrasounds, but its part of the job. I would not have been happy if it had happened to me.

Sorry that you just went through that.

SoldiersGreenBean

I've never had a trans-vaginal u/s hurt.  I got them at every appt with the twins, and it was never so much as uncomfortable.

Temp159135562506975

i never had one truly hurt... sometimes they were uncomfortable- but never painful.

i had one tech who handed it to me to insert -which i did... but then the next time i asked the tech why the other one did that -she said some peole just have a preference.

janjag

I've had so many of those things.  Lots during pg and several to monitor a cyst before pg. 

One time while pg it hurt.  I don't remember why it hurt though... b/c sometimes they insert it themselves and sometimes they hand it to you.  I don't remember which was more uncomfortable since it only hurt the one time. 

Maybe since it was a radiology lab she wasn't as experienced with this type of u/s. 

MaygenDL0ve

Ew that's weird.  I had one that hurt only cuz she pointed the wand in the totally wrong direction.  I just had to say "you might wanna angle it down more" and then it didnt hurt.

Nerwak

I had TONS at the RE and I've only had one ever hurt; it was when my OB's office did it and I don't think they used lube (they said they did, but it hurt and there wasn't any extra lube hanging out down there afterwards, so if they did, it was a minuscule amount.) Sorry you had to go through that; if there's a next time I'd say something.