For girls: during your gynecological visits have you ever had a rectal ultrasound?

For girls: during your gynecological visits have you ever had a rectal ultrasound? If so, in what position? Was it painful? A friend of mine got it because she was a virgin. She was completely naked, the gynecologist had her placed in the knee-chest position and inserted the probe deep into her rectum. It was very embarrassing and painful for her. How was your experience?

I have never had rectal ultrasound.

Nope, never

Never have but this brings back a memory.

At a work gathering once, a small group of us were talking and one of the women had been away for a few weeks, "health issue" was all we knew. We were asking her how she's doing and so on. She was very up front and told us that her intense pains were due to her being pregnant and, long story short, soonafter miscarrying. It was very early and she and her husband were not even aware of the pregnancy. Among the things she told us about the diagnosis and the many exams she had, she said "Well they had to do an ultrasound but it wasn't through my vagina." We all kind of went silent and someone said "But it was internal?" She nodded. And the other woman said quietly "You mean in your bum?" She nodded again. No one asked anything else but I remember wanting to. I didn't know her very well but looking back I think she would have told me anything I wanted to know.

@GraceT Poor woman. If they wanted a baby, the miscarriage was horrible, but probably the examinations made it worse.

I had a transrectal ultrasound when I was diagnosed with adenomyosis and endometriosis. I wasn't quite in teens thus vaginal ultrasound wasn't really on the cards.

Not a great experience but gave the answers and helped me get treated

@GraceT probably the examinations made it worse.

@Pecan_nutjob

This all leaves me quite perplexed.

First of all, I am surprised that we are performing an endo-rectal ultrasound on a patient who we suspect is pregnant.

Once she has sex with her partner, she is no longer a virgin so why not a very simple endo-vaginal route?

On the other hand, I doubt your sentence which attributes to the examinations the increased risk of miscarriage.

The causes of these outcomes, which are real tragedies for future parents, are very difficult to understand, but it is nowhere described in the literature that obstetric diagnostic procedures are involved.

If you fear that it will be more pejorative for a fetus for a gynecologist to examine its mother, then you must prohibit all sexual relations at the slightest delay in your period.

There are, of course, high-risk pregnancies for which caution is necessary, but at this point, I personally have never seen them!

To respond to the initial post, introducing an ultrasound probe rectally in gynecology is a very specific case of exceptional rarity.

@BareFun

I had a transrectal ultrasound when I was diagnosed with adenomyosis and endometriosis. I wasn't quite in teens thus vaginal ultrasound wasn't really on the cards.

Not a great experience but gave the answers and helped me get treated

Bad trouble, would you like to tell us how it happened?

@franklin

@Pecan_nutjob

This all leaves me quite perplexed

On the other hand, I doubt your sentence which attributes to the examinations the increased risk of miscarriage.

I think you completely missed the point. “Poor woman. If they wanted a baby, the miscarriage was horrible, but probably the examinations made it worse.”

If they wanted a baby, the miscarriage was emotionally devastating. Additionally, being man handled by cold and imperious medical providers likely only compounded the difficult emotions. There was no implication that the already occurring miscarriage was physically caused by the actions, rather that the actions probably contributed to making a difficult emotional situation even worse.

@Franklin58200 I think @MittenKitten explained it quite well.