Many GPs and sexual health clinics now offer a range of pain relief options making coil fittings more manageable, but the guidance has not filtered down across the board 🔎 Big Read by connie_dimsdale
The presenter was filmed getting her coil changed on camera by Dame Lesley Regan, an experienced practitioner and one of the country’s leading gynaecologists. The procedure was at a private clinic and McCall was given a local anaesthetic injection and numbing gel.
On the day of the appointment, she took the painkillers and drove 20 minutes to her local sexual health clinic as no one had told her she might not be able to drive home.“I’ve truly never known anything like it,” she toldBecca said she left the treatment room “in shock”. She continued: “I drove home and I remember crying out in pain in my car while I was driving because it felt like the only thing that would make it go away.
“I had really severe cramps to the point of feeling nauseous. My vision was blurring – it was honestly the worst pain I’ve ever had. Dr Janet Barter, president of the FSRH, said that “women aren’t always getting the care that we would like them to get” due to pressure on the healthcare system. Dr Barter said medical professionals are doing the best they can, but the system is “very, very pushed” and not everyone has been trained to administer all methods of pain relief.Simphiwe Sesane – a contraception and sexual health nurse consultant at MSI Reproductive Choices who was featured in the documentary – said she ensures adequate pain relief is given to her patients but this is not always the case elsewhere.
“There is such a postcode lottery in terms of access,” she said, adding: “There are areas where pain relief is just not available, you have to travel which is not very fair on those women.”, said she has noticed increasingly positive reviews of the coil since the FSRH guidance came out – but it is yet to filter down fully.
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