Dr Jacqueline Coombe

So that could make you feel a bit woozy.

If you're using something else, there's like sprays and creams and stuff they can apply to the cervix.

They'll do that.

Some clinicians advise that you take some pain relief, like

Neurofen or Panadol a few hours before.

So make sure you do that.

And then, yeah, they'll, you know, ask you to undress and you'll get up on the bed, up into the stirrups and then they'll commence doing it.

There's a few little different instruments that they need to use.

They need to stabilise the cervix, measure, making sure they get the marina in the uterus in the right spot and then they need to cut the strings.

It's relatively quick.

It's only around five to ten minutes.

If you have the green whistle, you'll suck on it the whole time.

And then it's kind of over relatively quickly.

You then need to stay in the clinic and be monitored for around 15 minutes, maybe a little bit longer, just to make sure you're okay.

Depending on the clinic, they'll have somewhere you can rest.

If it's a general GP clinic, you probably just go back into the waiting room and sit.

And then they'll check your blood pressure, make sure you're okay, you haven't had any reactions or anything.

And then off you go to the rest of your day.

Highly recommend not driving home.

Get someone to take you home.