Today I had my first transvaginal ultrasound. My Dr. stated my uterus was enlarged and suspects fibroids or a cyst. Not much pain but for the last few months just pressure. After reading all of your responses, I have to say I'm really lucky. I write this to say that its not all bad. Hate to say it but the T-vag actually felt good. I was trying not to laugh and smile. I realize I'm the exception to the rule but wanted to say that it does happen. I guess my advise would be to relax as much as possible. Easier said than done when you don't feel the best or are in pain. I had no idea how it was going to go but I didn't tense up and ended up having an internal tickle. Hope this gives some hope to others that its not all bad.
i had my 1st abdominal ultrasound and transvaginal ultrasound today to check my ovaries n cysts (I was diagnosed with PCOS 7 years ago without ever having any internals) it was fine while it was being done, just alot of pressure and i could feel when she moved the probe from 1 side to the other but now 4 hours later im having bad pains and it feels like im bruised on the inside. its not just in the front but also in my lower back n goes all the way up above my belly button. the woman doing it didnt say i would experience any pain afterwards but after reading these posts i feel a bit better. i thought something was wrong. hopefully it doesnt take too many days to get back to normal. im goin to take some paracetamol n a hot water bottle.
I had a transvaginal ultrasound more than 24 months ago. I was having severe pelvic pain and very heavy irregular periods. I had an afternoon appointment and my period actually started on the morning of the scan. i called the hospital and asked to be rescheduled but they said they could still perform the scan even though I was bleeding quite a lot and basically blackmailed me into keeping the appointment by saying it would be at least 6 weeks before I would get another appointment.
I wish I had stuck to my guns because I have regretted the decision ever since. I was supposed to have a transabdominal scan before the transvaginal scan so my bladder was full for the transabdominal scan. However, when I was called I was told I was only getting the transvaginal scan. They then showed my this probe that looked like a big dildo...and I was really scared. Then I was told that the gentleman in the room would be carrying out the procedure and i went through the process of getting ready. I then told them that I was on my first day of my cycle and they said it wouldn't be a problem.
I was extermely sensitive and already cramping badly with a lot of pain even though I had taken painkillers. When the guy put the probe in.....I started cramping and told him it was very painful but the lady sonographer said it would be a little painful since I was in my periods due to the inflammation and swelling already present in my reproductive area. As he kept on pushing in....he came to full stop as the probe would not go any further. The sonographer told him to push through and it was the worst pain I have had in my life. I started telling him that it was very painful and she just said they won' take long and they should be done in a couple of minutes. Well....a couple of minutes took about 5 minutes and eventually they pulled out.
All they discovered was that I had small ovarian cysts but nothing to worry about and the inconsistent and heavy bleeding was probably due to the menopause. Now...over 24 months later, I still have abnormal periods, except that the craming and severe pain now starts a week before I actually get my periods. Bleeding is so excessive, that I take liquid iron just to have any energy to do anything. I was scheduled for another scan today...and would you belive it....I started with my periods. Needless to say, I refused to have it done and am planning to have it rescheduled. I sometimes wonder if the guy actually did any damage inside as I later found out he was a trainee sonographer.
oh my god. thank you very much for posting this. i'm very grateful for it. you may be the person who can actually help me, after one year of dealing with my mysterious problem... can you please send me a short e-mail about your experiences? how the diagnosis had been made and how did you recovered exactly? i will now share my own story with you.
first of all, i'm sorry for my bad spelling, i'm from hungary and english isn't my first language. actually, this is the first time i had ever googled up my medical problem in english. maybe that's why i couldn't find any answers to my questions until now. there are plenty of forums like this one in hungarian, too. but i had never seen anything like this topic in hungarian forums.
i'm a 24 years old young woman, and i had never had any problems with my health/body before. my first day of menstruation is very painful, but everything else is fine. it happened in April 2012, that i had a little pain around my hip. since i had never had ovary problems before, i wasn't an expert on this subject and i got a little frightened and immediately thought that i have oophoritis. at that time, i was visiting my mother, so i wasn't at the town, where i was studiing and visited familiar doctors. it was also a Sunday. in Hungary, these two things mean that you have to wait until you're back at your "hometown", or go to local a hospital, to a stranger. he was ok, i guess, but he never asked me about my temperature, which is very-very important if we're talking about oophoritis.
so this first doctor said that i obviously have oophoritis, and prescripted antibiotics for me and said that, when I go back to the city where i was studiing at the time, i should go to my regular doctor and ask him to check on my ovaries with another ultrasound.
it was 5 days later when i did that, and by the time, the "pain" wasn't stopped. so i thought it would be a good thing to go to my regular doctor, whether he had to really check on me before i took all the antibiotics or not. i was very wrong.
my right ovary was ok, but when he tried to examine my left ovary, it just hurt so much, i cried. after a month later, when i was seeing another doctor (the fourth, actually...), it came clear to me, that i had'nt even got an oophoritis. yes, i was in a little pain, felt dizzy and had a little fluid in my pelvis, but i had'nt got high fever, and hadn't got huge pain, which all come with oophoritis. it was only one of those ovulation, which a woman can really feel. usually, you don't have to feel a thing, but there are a few ovulation like this as well. it was my first, so i couldn't possibly knew what was going on with my body.
so it hurt very much when i had this second ultrasound. i went to the doctor on foot, but i barely was able to move afterwards. but the worst thing was not his, but what came after. you see, after i cried my eyes out, the doctor said to me, that he isn't sure about himself, and i have to take a pee in the lab, because, maybe i'm pregnant or i had a miscarriage or something. he wouldn't listen to me about how my period had just ended and how careful me and my boyfriend are when we have sex. (i will not comment on this now anyway... Hungary has many problems, and our (public or not) healthcare system is one of these.)
so after this painful experience, the doctor said to me, that i have to go to another hospital that day, because their lab is already closed, and there's this another... on the top of a hill, yes.
looking back, i can't tell you why i went to visit a second doctor that day. now, i wouldn't even consider to do it. but at that time, it felt logical: i was in a very big pain, so i had to do something about it.
so, i called two friends of mine, and they were very nice, helped me to walk to the second hospital. there, i visited the second doctor. but when i got into the room, there wasn't only one doctor there, there was three of them. i explained, that i probably have oophoritis and had been taking antibiotics for 5 days. then i also told them, that i've just came from my doctor, who made an ultrasound, and it was the most painful experience of my life, so i would be happy if they wouldn't do the same.
anyway, they did. (i would say "eastern europe", again.) all three of them. and they said the same thing, that your doctor said to you: "i can't find your ovary" it felt like hell, and i really just couldn't move afterwards, my friends had to take me home after that.
anyway, they said that i'm not pregnant or anything, that other doctor was just stupid to even think about that, of course i have oophoritis, and they prescripted another type of antibiotics.
after that, it took me one week to walk again.
and i have pain ever since. it's not that big kind of pain, it's just like i feel like something is not ok, something is pulling me down. i walk, i run, i sit, i lie down, and it is the same uncomfortable feeling, just above my left ovary. on the top of this, sex from some positions, really hurts, and what i really hate is that i can't do sports anymore, because it's too uncomfortable for me. fortunately, i don't have to urinate more than usual, but i have pain, and we can say that i'm pretty depressed, too. i feel like something is wrong with me, physically, and very few people believes me.
and i paid to doctors like so much... and they all said, that i must be imagening something, because "that just couldn't hurt like that". but it hurts, it's real, i know.
recently, i find a doctor (she is the seventh one), who at least tries to figure out what's wrong. but the best she could come up with, is endometriosis. she said that it can't be any problem with my muscles, because she would feel it, when she is touching me with her hands (???) but she is at least trying to understand me. and i just came home from an MRI. i don't know if it would show something or not, but it is really your comment which gives me a little hope, nothing else.
I'm 32 and also gay, so I'm not used to penetration. When it was being done it hurt alot to get it in, the technician was very nice and asked me if I wanted to put it in myself, which I did. I just tried to relax down there and slid it in as quick as I could while exhaling a deep breath. After it was inside, it felt uncomfortable but not painful. Felt like it was making me have my period. It didn't, but I felt like it the rest of the day. I felt okay the following morning.
They found a 1" cyst and will be checking again in six weeks to make sure its not growing. Meaning another vag ultrasound :/
Yesterday I had a transvaginal ultrasound to discover why I've had pain in my uterus/lower back. My doctor thought my uterus seemed enlaraged and suspected fibroids, but after the procedure he said there were no fibroids and that everything looked fine. I was sent on my way. I was in pain all evening and even worse this morning. Aleve did nothing to help. I don't know whether to call the drs. office and tell them. I feel like he gave me a clean bill of health, but I'm still in pain. Very frustrating!
what? I though I was alone in this. I actually had it stopped, because of the pain. The tech had the bedside manner of Atilla the hun; did nothing to help me relax. Um uh lady you are putting a foreign object up my vagina and telling me to relax?. She also complained about not getting payment for it. I had it tuesday and I am still sore. Another doctor was scheduled to do it, and she never came in; just me and the tech I havent heard from my regular doc yet regarding what to do next
I am a post menopausal gal and I just had my first TV US today and it was not bad at all! I was very nervous about it and I told the very nice tech about my concerns I had (from reading the experiences of others online) and she said that I shouldn't read ahead of time so that I won't worry about it. She said that they have 80+ yr old women who go thru the procedure just fine. Anyway, what a relief that my experience was not bad at all. Now, I just hope the results will be good too! Good luck ladies!
I am a post menopausal gal and I just had my first TV Ultrasound today and it was not bad at all! I was very nervous about it and I told the very nice tech about my concerns I had (from reading the experiences of others online) and she said that I shouldn't read ahead of time so that I won't worry about it. She said that they have 80+ yr old women who go thru the procedure just fine. Anyway, what a relief that my experience was not bad at all. Now, I just hope the results will be good too! Good luck ladies!
Don't know why my post appears twice %-) Oh well...
it seems im not alone.....i went for a transvaginal scan yesterday, i am in absolute agony. :-(. Going in was fine, i had a trainee sonographer, so i felt that she took a bit of extra care, which of course is great, for comfort, but when diagnosing, and actually finding my ovaries (which i may add were hiding way up),the head sonographer took over and with her expertise had to push the probe way up into my left side for a clearer picture. I am grateful...but i am suffering dearly now, and still with the added pain of why i got referred in the first place. I have to wait till next week for the results.....i am quite worried if i'm honest :-(, its true when they say you know your own body. The sonographer was asking me a lot of questions, but not writing them down (confused). like "do you have kids" "periods regular?" etc. Anyone else experience this? i am counting down the days.
This is So crazy I came across this pg Because I just had a transvaginal ultrasound Thursday (which was yesterday ) and she took so many pictures and I was uncomfortable , she kept pulling my leg out further and I already had it separated super far and I told her its making me really uncomfortable and she said I need these very clear so I let her and I don't know why she took so many pictures but I went there because I haven't had a period since may 12 2013 and it's now July 19 2013 & I'm regular , my period always comes on the 12 . She said she didn't see a baby as of then but it's still a huge possibility , my breasts hurt I'm kinda sick to my stomach after eating certain foods , I can't brush my teeth without wanting to puke. I had a positive urine test I just don't understand what's going on and I don't understand why I'm having little pains now ever since the transvaginal ultrasound . No blood, just pains here n there . Anybody else experience this? Also I wonder y the baby wouldn't show up in the ultrasound ?
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I have had one today and I feel terrible. I have had them before and even though I have endometriosis(diagnosed at 18 I'm now 43)it wasn't painful at all, I'm worried as I have never felt pain like it on my right side when she scanned my ovary the same pain I went to A&E with 2weeks ago. The scanner said she couldn't see anything abnormal so I now have to wait for a histeroscopy in a month. ?????
Well, I'm glad to hear someone else has felt my pain! I'm way older than you, 50 to be exact, and I'm single and celibate and could never use tampons, either. I'm still
I had my 2nd trans-vaginal ultrasound 2 days ago, and OUCH. The first one, which was about 2 months ago, wasn't as bad. The tech that did it (I couldn't insert it myself, so she did) was kind and patient and gentle. She put up with my drama at the awful point where that wicked wand tries to pass through the pelvic bones (that's the most narrow point, and the most painful). But the tech on Friday was a little rougher, and we almost gave up. I think the slower they try to insert it, the more painful it is.
Anyway, yes, everybody's anatomy and circumstances are different. The first tech said that it can be painful even for women who have had many children! She said the key is how narrow you are in the area where the pelvic bone meets another bone (forget which one). Thank God we got through it. And, if we need to get it done again, we'll be ok :) Good health to you!
I had a transvaginal ultra sound and there was NOT any pain involved, I think the trick here is to relax and make sure the one doing it takes time and helps you relax. So if you haven't had one don't get all shook up like I did...it was so much eaiser then a pap....actually I rather have this then a pap....Sorry to hear anyone has pain but, glad I am by a small hospital that does this stuff on a daily bases and the gals there are so senitive to your needs.... Sometimes you just have to check the places in your area out before going. Remember its you choice in the end...NOT the doctors.