What is an Office Hysteroscopy? | Fertility Testing Explained at DIRM

[00:00:03]hi I'm Lauren nurse practitioner they were doing hysteroscopy what hysteroscopy is is a camera guided into your uterus by squatters who can feel water running that's where all just normal family and that's gonna open up your uterus and the camera is going to help us be able to visualize inside their uterus anything that would prevent the babies being able to give them to the lining so we're looking for paulus fibroids infection anything that could potentially we're going to be prevalent as far as discomfort you really shouldn't have too much discomfort you're definitely going to feel a sensation of something they are so maybe some pressure depending on which way your uterus is tilted you might feel some extra pressure because the camera itself is straight about super bendables you might feel the pressure of the camera Phil bending that any way are uncomfortable just let me know and we can adjust or weekly stop I've seen it I will definitely have the results for you today has weird little real-time you'll be able to follow along but watch on this video behind me and I'll explain everything that we're doing as we go so first we have you scooch down all the way to the end a big fan people so your bottom is hanging off and the first part is just inserting the speculum like you do at the normal will enjoy an exam so here at the end of the table you're just going to drop your knees down to the side you're going to feel my hands touch your leg you're gonna feel my hand slide down your guns your pressure with my fingers and then you're gonna feel pressure with the specular a little bit more pressure here as we locate your cervix now we're going to look for sources of infection that could potentially go up inside your uterus and prevent the baby from implanting so we're just going to do a little swab at your cervix you're going to feel a little touch the next thing that we're going to do is just clean your cervix so that way we don't introduce any bacteria from the outside into if you have any brown spotting later it's most likely just from this betadine [Music] so the next thing we're gonna do is just get the Machine ready here this is your cervix apparently this here is a back wall of your uterus opening right there is the rightful of YouTube opening they don't see anything abnormal in this sense of anything else identity and that's it they're all there is to it we're gonna remove this speculum you might feel some water draining down and then we'll give you a pad to use for the rest of the day in case you have any water leakage you can go ahead and slide back