Is Anesthesia Given During An Endometrial Biopsy?

Posted on Wed, 14 Jan 2015

Question: Yesterday a dr gave me an endometrial biopsy she did not give any anesthesia any where. That was absolute torture. Is that normally the way that deal is done

Answered by Dr. Dr. Michelle Gibson (33 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
done without in some cases

Detailed Answer:
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Normally before an in office endometrial biopsy, a dose of an NSAID is taken . This family of medications includes ibuprofen, naproxen, arcoxia, celebrex etc.

Many gynecologist perform the procedure without administering anesthesia and there are some persons who are able to tolerate this.
There are some doctors that use an anesthetic method called paracervical block along with the NSAID to help reduce any discomfort.

Paracervical block is method of anesthesia used in obstetrics and gynecology. It involves the injection of anesthetic to different aspects of the cervix that results in pain reduction to this area and the uterus.

Summary: (1)it is not unusual to administer no anesthesia but it can be offered if it is realized that the person is unable to tolerate the associated discomfort

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar