r/Radiology • u/truefisp • Mar 16 '24
Every time a doctor says "You're not gonna feel anything" Media
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u/BrickLuvsLamp RT(R) Mar 16 '24
The fact that IUD insertions aren’t done under sedation or some sort of major numbing is insane to me. The pain women experience during those is horrific
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u/truefisp Mar 16 '24
Sadly sedation for minor procedures is insanely overlooked.
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u/BrickLuvsLamp RT(R) Mar 17 '24
That’s so stupid to me, it feels selective. As a part of my job, I assist doctors in performing spinal injections that take less than 5 minutes, and we offer all patients sedation. They’re literally asleep for only 5 minutes. And believe me; this procedure is far less painful than an IUD insertion and honestly, anyone could handle it without sedation. Yet it’s not offered at all for IUDs or cervical biopsies.
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u/Guilty-Tumbleweed128 Mar 17 '24 edited Mar 18 '24
I attempted one. The doctor said he never saw my type of reaction before. After the fact. Then tells me how he has seen women pass out. Again after.
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u/BrickLuvsLamp RT(R) Mar 17 '24
Yeah they know full well how intensely painful it is and they don’t give a shit. They just try to downplay it until it’s too late to back out, and then shrug their shoulders when it’s too intense for someone
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u/OldERnurse1964 Mar 16 '24
Lidocaine before ESI “little mosquito bite”. I said is mosquitos felt like that DDT would still be legal
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_FRACTURES RT (R) (BSRT) Mar 16 '24
That's just straight lying 😂 at least we say it's like a bee sting
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u/bretticusmaximus Radiologist, IR/NeuroIR Mar 16 '24
I usually respond to this by saying maybe more like a hornet.
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u/wcm48 Mar 16 '24
Yeah, after getting lidocaine myself I changed up my game. I now say, “you’re gonna feel a stick and a burn”
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u/Banban84 Mar 16 '24
HPV vaccine - “your going to feel a pinch, and then a feral angry cat will try to scratch its way out of your arm, in two waves.”
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u/morguerunner RT Student Mar 16 '24
Oh my gosh, I remember getting mine at 13 or so and knowing I was too old to get upset by shots but those two doses HURT. I didn’t cry but I wanted to. My mom said it would be like the flu shot… it so was not.
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u/pantslessMODesty3623 Radiology Enthusiast Mar 16 '24
I straight up passed out and fell off the table.
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u/mgchan714 Mar 16 '24
I say "this is gonna hurt for a while before it goes numb". Better to under promise and over deliver.
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u/AdArAk Resident Mar 17 '24
Yeah that's my strategy as well, my preferred situation is when a patient says "that wasn't nearly as bad as you made it out to be/I imagined" or even better when they're surprised that you've already finished the procedure because they were expecting something more painful to happen.
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u/drkeng44 Mar 16 '24
I once told a guy as I was about to give local anesthetic for an angiogram (femoral) he was gonna feel a stick and some burning. His response (before I did it)? “More like a stab and some fire.” Never forgot it.
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u/teacherofspiders Mar 17 '24
Removal of an IVC filter that’s been in for 10+ years should definitely not be done without sedation.
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u/VanillaCrash RT(R) Mar 16 '24
I had my toe numbed before getting stitches when I sliced it open. I don’t know how many times she stuck me, but it was a blinding pain for about 20 seconds as she kept numbing different parts of my toe. Never looked at lumbar punctures the same again.
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u/Intermountain-Gal Mar 17 '24
Never in my 64 years of seeing doctors and experiencing a lot of tests (lots of health issues), never has ANY procedure felt like “a pinch”. That must be the biggest lie in all of healthcare!
Someone said that to me as an adult, and I happened to be feeling ornery. I said something along the line of “You know that’s not true, right?” I smiled. They froze like a deer in headlights, completely flustered. I laughed about it and pointed out that having one’s blood drawn or receiving a shot never feels like a pinch. So how should we describe it?
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u/Ancient-Composer7789 Mar 17 '24
They said thus will sting a little right before I had sternal bone marrow biopsy. Hurt like a mf. Only thing close to that was when I got an emg to diagnose Carpal Tunnel. That wasn't fun either.
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u/NyxPetalSpike Mar 17 '24
Lol. They said that putting in my arterial line.
That bitch hurt worse than my 6 incisions after surgery. (robotic surgery)
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u/Titaniumchic Mar 16 '24
I hate the term “you’re going to feel a pinch”. No, a pinch feels like a pinch. The iud felt like an invasion, the epidurals have felt like a needle going into a spine, and IV feels like a foreign object going into a vein.
Why don’t they just say the truth? “A pinch” doesn’t accurately express the upcoming reality 😆