**I should note, that based on the information I was given it shouldn’t hurt IF you do not have a preexisting condition related to the area. Of course every tech and doctor are different with different techniques though. That’s why it’s so important to know you can always say NO to anything you are uncomfortable with. Talk to your doctor and see what your options are ❤Also, this is just in reference to pregnancy. Not checks for issues in the area. I do not know what the protocol is for that and if it’s any different.** If you are pregnant and worried about getting an internal ultrasound? I got you!! I got A LOT comments about the wand used for my internal ultrasounds when sharing what my first pregnancy doctor appointment looked like. Many were scared of it, and rightfully so given how large it looks! (The camera does add 10lbs though 😉😂) So I made this video in hopes it can ease any worries you may have about it❤️❤️ Remember, you are in control. You can deny ANYTHING! I suggest talking to your doctor and have them explain why they feel the procedure is necessary then go from there. Never be afraid to voice your concerns and advocate for yourself❤️❤️ **Please note, this was just in regards to a pregnancy ultrasound. I have no idea if they go deeper for other examinations.** What have your pregnancy doctor appointments looked like? Did you have this type of ultrasound done?

Warning. It’s possible to get an STD if the tech is not using hygienic wand covers/procedures. A friend of mine went through this on top of miscarrying.

As someone with a pelvic floor dysfunction, it can hurt. However, I had a pelvic exam and pap after the internal ultrasound and it was probably 10x worse. And having the internal ultrasound eased so much anxiety, and was really worth it. For anyone out there that experiences pain with insertion, I highly recommend making sure the tech knows that and asking if you can insert it yourself.

PLEASE PLEASE YOU CAN SAY NO my nurses insisted I had a catheter put in bc I got am epidural and I told them I was peeing on the bed they put it in anyway it was the worst part of my recovery and I didn't need it please have someone there to speak your needs. you can deny ANYTHING it's your body and your experience

I mentioned this in your last post about it, but I'll say it again because I feel like if I had heard this before my first time having one, it would have eased some fears. My internal ultrasounds for my pcos have been more comfortable than my external ones. Externally, they have to press pretty hard to see anything (if they see anything at all), and it can be a little painful. I think with internal ultrasound, they know that it is a bit nerve-racking, and they tend to be so understanding. They will usually ask you to insert it if you are comfortable and able to do it. I'm sure it depends a lot on the tech. But it was completely painless, like if you've ever had a pap smear, this is like 5x easier than that. In my personal experience.

I love your advocacy for individual choice!

Important to reiterate this isn’t always standard procedure! I had my first internal ultrasound with my 4th baby!

I wish I knew I could've said no to this, I was having a miscarriage with my first in the ER and a lady came in to do this to me, I was scared and she bullied me for it in the hallway after to her other nurse buddies. I cried during it, it hurt so much because she was thrusting the wand around so viciously and telling me to basically shut up when I so much as winced because of the pain.

Mine hurt so bad, had mine at 7 weeks . 4 days later I miscarried. I never got one after . Had a healthy baby girl a few months ago , didn't get a scan with her until 16 weeks

I could’ve sworn I saw you pregnant with #5 i missed so much I was pregnant with you and your videos helped me so much congratulations on baby #6❤🎉

Love watching you❤ I’ll be 33 tomorrow and im a proud momma of 5 kids .. youngest just turned 1! Oldest almost 13 😊.. we had our 3 boys first and thought I would never get a girl 😂😂 then our last two beautiful surprises were girls❤️❤️ i never comment but i wanted to let you know i enjoy your videos ans It’s nice being able to get on KZfaq and actually relate to somebody❤️❤️❤️

I definitely appreciate you explaining this. I’ve always been so scared thinking that the whole thing would go in 😱

I have been binge watching stuff like this. Since you have done this more than once....I found you to be so mind expanding...im not trying to say those with one or 2 kids aren't pro...but just saying. Your stuff is REALLLLLLYYY educational....and can help all of those going through it.

Honestly this ultrasound was a walk in the park with my first compared to weekly cervical checks at the end leading to being induced 😂

I have a feeling I'll be following you a lot more closely in the coming weeks 😊

I’m in my 20s, and I had not had sexual intercourse when I got an ultrasound. It was the single worst pain I have ever had in my life. I begged them to withdraw and they ended up using a smaller wand and that worked ok. My body wasn’t used to having anything inserted larger than a large tampon, and it was not a good time. 0/10 recommend.

Just came across your page and I love your voice aha! So engaging

I had this type of ultrasound with my fourth baby. It didn't hurt at all. Year's later I had the same type of ultrasound looking for fibroids. It didn't go in any farther and it didn't hurt at all either.

I’m 9 weeks with first baby and have had two of these. I wanted an early ultrasound and they had to do it this way. It hurts at first but then is fine. They tried to do abdominal at my last appointment and couldn’t see enough because it’s still early and my uterus is tilted back. You can honestly see soo much more clearly with this, so I might ask for it next time as well! And it was more comfortable than how hard she was pressing on my abdomen to get the other one to work

Hurt for me but thats ‘cause literally nothing had ever been stuck up there. But the girl in training who was doing the ultrasound was super patient and gentle that she paused anytime i looked uncomfortable

Sonographer here. This should not hurt at all or as much. Uncomfortable? Sure. I've done the procedure multiple times and it does take patience and allowing patients to relax. Lots of gel on the probe is key. A great sonographer should always be checking in to make sure you are comfortable but of course you should always let him ( likely a Doc) or her know if its painful. As far as going in very deep, techs cannot see much of anything if the probe is right up against the vaginal wall or cervix, and then there is bowel gas to contend with. I often ask patience to guide me to know where to maneuver the probe so they are most comfortable.

I was able to insert the probe in myself last time, and I really appreciated it.

I've had several done, it can hurt depending on the doctor who does it. First and third didnt hurt at all, second hurt quite a bit. But it doesnt last very long

I’ve had this done for my PCOS and checking on my uterus and it was fine. It looks super intimidating but my doc was gentle.

I went to my first ultrasound at 7 weeks. The lady tried to do cervical checks, with the reason that they may not be able to see the baby through normal ultrasound. But i told her that i feel uncomfortable about it because I bleed easily, and she said "ok lets first try with other one, and if we can't see anything we will do cervical check." And voila! You could see the baby immidiately with normal ultrasound. So far i never had to do cervical checks😊

I never had to do this for either of my pregnancies, but I did have to do it for an ovarian cyst. And they had to PUSH to get to the spot they needed to see. That was really uncomfortable. I was by myself that time, but my husband came with me for the second check and he was SO FREAKED OUT lol

My gyno does this ultrasounds as I part of a regular yearly checkup.On every patient, pregnant or not, so I had those a number of times. If done correctly, doctor will put a fresh condom on the wand first to make sure it's all hygienic and then insert it. It's not supposed to hurt at all. Mine indeed didn't and I'd say that if yours hurts, something isn't right. Or your doctor is doing something wrong.

That hurts. I had it once and I said no more. I only do abdominal pelvic ultrasounds.

After fainting from cramps pain I was asked if I was okay with them using this to be 100% sure, even let students observe as I was already feeling better (despite my 3rd bump, headache and glasses bent), and it was just one of my grandmas gene giving me the middle finger

I said no to the ultrasound lady because i was scared, and i was 6 weeks. She then had to do the basic ultrasound, and she could see everything. i dont know why she wanted to do it.

My friend has that phone case

Lol the first pelvic US I had she grabbed the wrong wand. After complaining that it hurt super bad for like 5 minutes she switched to the proper one. I thought it was just that I was too sensitive at the time. Then I realized years later she grabbed the wrong one😢

Fellow men, a easily missed but great deal of information was revealed in this…. Use it wisely

I wish I had been more brave to say no!!! My doc told me around 4 weeks that we could probably do the external ultrasound when I came in for my 8 weeks confirmation of pregnancy appointment. I got there day of and its a different doctor and she literally already had the wand lubed up when I walked into the room. It was uncomfortable for me and I was too shocked to ask her why we weren't trying to external ultrasound but honestly it left me feeling super dissatisfied and regretful of the first time I got to see my baby. Im tearing up now just thinking about it. I wish I had said no.

I recently had to get an internal ultrasound for a PCOS diagnosis It is mildly uncomfortable but it doesn't hurt like I remember just feeling a lot of pressure but it was not painful feel like for me the worst part was the awkwardness I felt having someone just jabbing something right up there 😅😅

The one they shoved in me for screening for pcos was on the thinner side. Like other than initial penetration, it wasn't that painful.. its just the gyno often move around the wand to get more things to write down and everytime it bumped at the cervix.. it was slightly uncomfortable and feels like i was abouy to pee.. feeling of fullness and they wwre poking around the bladder.. even though they asked me empty my bladder lol. But I don't know if they use the same equipment for pregnant women too, im currently 4w2ds. The doc asked me to come visit at 7wks fof my first TransVaginal Scan (TVS).. I'm both excited and anxious! This is my first! Please pray for me!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤

Currently 3 months pregnant and all I can think of is how did you deal with waiting 9 months every time for your baby to come! I don’t know why but I just feel like this process is soooo long 😂

When i went to go for my ultrasound It was wrapped in a confom

Ive never seen one, not an option I'm guessing in the UK for standard scanning maybe if required

OK I just have to say I’ve had multiple internal ultrasounds because I have PCOS and when I was getting diagnosed I had three surgeries all that went wrong that all misdiagnosed me and have had this procedure done about 35-40 times and I can say it is completely uncomfortable I’ve never had a good experience while having this done. I understand it’s not supposed to be a walk in the park but it’s not comfortable or not painful in my opinion at all and I have a high pain tolerance also I don’t know who is telling you it’s only 3 inches they stick in because that’s definitely not true, I’ve had doctors go much further and it wouldn’t make sense to make the instrument 8 inches long. If you’re only getting used 3 inches of the tip… Not a hater just had totally different experiences with these so I get you’re trying to get girls to not be afraid of them but they’re something to definitely be wary of, and make sure you’re comfortable with a doctor before you agree to it in my opinion. I hope you have a safe and healthy pregnancy and your hair is beautiful by the way.

I went for an ultrasound to test for pcos and dodnt know it would be internal. Scared the bejesus out of me when they asked me to drop trou and whipped out the wand lol

Mine hurt because she took pictures of my ovaries do determine which side I ovulated from and she was pushing super hard into each side of my vagina to view my ovaries. Hopefully that’s not common though.

This is my first pregnancy and I was diagnosed with placenta previa. Basically my placenta is too low so every time I go get ultrasounds I have to have an internal as well. The external ultrasound doesn’t measure the placenta correctly and the Dr needs to see if it’s moved. In the last 8 months I think I’ve had it done 9 times.

It's so weird to me when women say they've only had it done once or so after they got pregnant. I've had dozens of these done trying to get pregnant.

Man I wish I didn't have an overly narrow pelvis so that this didn't hurt...

When you’re already have a baby meaning you’re pelvis is bigger hole than a woman didn’t have a baby on normal birth or on CS. It didn’t went through mine today’s transviginal ultrasound because it’s painful

It totally does hurt. OMG 😱

I have had very uncomfy internal ultrasounds before. The tech kept shoving past my cervix instead of going around. I had to tell her to stop doing that because it hurt!

I never did any ultrasounds other than the anatomy scan.

I have a tilted uterus so i had to have this done and i was pretty uncomfortable but i guess it wasn't so bad. But i hated it and i also was tense, so i guess thats why it wasn't great for me 😩

Ive heard of a few stories where the tech was to rough and caused a miscarriage. This was a big no from me with my 8 month old and it will be again if I have another.

It felt like they were rearranging my guts when they were adjusting it. It may not hurt in terms of actual sharp pain, but it is not the nicest thing in the world.

I had this begore gyno surgery and it REALLY hurt

Does it cause spotting/bleedibg afterwards?

Hmm it hurt me but I’ve never had a child… and also had uterine fibroids like it literally wouldn’t go in 😩

It doesn't hurt at all. Honestly sex is more painful.

I'm surprised that this device is found by pregnant women. That is part of any gynecological yearly check up in my experience

Sounds like she's talking about my ex😏

I hate that thing 😡 idk what it is but I can’t take it just feels really uncomfortable

Three inches is too much

It'd giving drake 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🥴

Honestly, I thought it was kinda small, I mean It's so thin. My husband is like 9 inches lol.