How does an endometrial biopsy compare to a hysterosalpingogram? Which one is more uncomfortable?
I understood that it is different for each woman (both EMB and HSG). For some EMB is very painful and HSG is hardly felt, for others it is the other way around. For me, the EMB felt like one cramp (short, not nice but not to bad either) and I was fine afterwards. For the HSG I took a painkiller (I asked my RE for one). They use a different sort of speculum, a tiny bit more uncomfortable than the normal one (it is more like a circle than a duck’s beak). Than they put a plastic cub on your uterusmouth. That is a rather nasty feeling, and you will keep feeling that as long as it is there. Attached to it is a tube, and the send the dye true that one. Since that can be painful for some they will try to do it as slowly as possible. To me they said that if I felt a real pain I should warn them and they would stop a minute or go more slowly. This part will take approximately 10 minute (It took less for me, it can take a bit more for others). Afterwards they told me to walk, to make sure that t
