I have panic attacks before a pelvic exam. As in, heart racing, high blood pressure, nausea, dizziness, shortness of breath, want to die panic. The exam is incredibly quick, but it is so humiliating... so degrading... so undignified... so immodest... I cry for two days afterward.
My exams wouldn't be so bad after I establish rapport with a provider. But then, right when it's time for my legs to go in the stirrups, they have a strange nurse come in to "help" (i.e., chaperon) and she stand down by my feet, looking at my most intimate parts, just for the sake of looking. HUMILIATING AND DEGRADING!
If it weren't for pelvic exams, I would have many more babies. The anxiety from pelvic exams and all the humiliating, degrading things they make you go through during pregnancy is enough to make me not want to get pregnant again, even though I want more children.
I actually voiced my fear the last time I went in. The provider laughed it off (in a nice way?), but did nothing to help my fears.
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I have panic attacks before a pelvic exam. As in, heart racing, high blood pressure, nausea, dizziness, shortness of breath, want to die panic. The exam is incredibly quick, but it is so humiliating... so degrading... so undignified... so immodest... I cry for two days afterward.
My exams wouldn't be so bad after I establish rapport with a provider. But then, right when it's time for my legs to go in the stirrups, they have a strange nurse come in to "help" (i.e., chaperon) and she stand down by my feet, looking at my most intimate parts, just for the sake of looking. HUMILIATING AND DEGRADING!
If it weren't for pelvic exams, I would have many more babies. The anxiety from pelvic exams and all the humiliating, degrading things they make you go through during pregnancy is enough to make me not want to get pregnant again, even though I want more children.
I actually voiced my fear the last time I went in. The provider laughed it off (in a nice way?), but did nothing to help my fears.
I don't know what to do.
May 6, 2011 - 6:52amThis Comment
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