Why does it hurt when having a curettage for an abortion?

Abortion is a common thing in modern life. For women, an unexpected or unprepared pregnancy will not bring any benefits to life. Therefore, abortion is a more correct solution. However, abortion is a huge harm to women's health, because the abortion curettage will seriously damage the health of the uterus and cause severe pain in the uterus. Let's take a look at why it hurts to have abortion curettage.

Curettage is painful, but the degree of pain varies from person to person.

Curettage and dilation is a procedure to scrape out the endometrium or uterine cavity contents. This is a minor surgery commonly performed in obstetrics and gynecology and is one of the methods of abortion. There are two types of curettage: ordinary curettage and painless curettage. If you do an ordinary curettage, there will be some pain, but this pain is bearable. If you are afraid of pain, you can have a painless uterine curettage. But it should be noted that even with a painless curettage, some women will still feel pain due to different physical conditions. So, curettage is painful, but the degree of pain varies from person to person.

Curettage has very low risks and can stop bleeding and help diagnose diseases including infection, cancer, infertility, and other conditions. Normally, once the patient feels well enough (usually the same day), they can resume normal activities. If vaginal bleeding, lower abdominal cramps and back pain persist for several days after the operation, you can take painkillers to relieve the pain. The use of internal menstrual tampons is not recommended within a few weeks, and sexual intercourse is not recommended within a few days.

There are differences between curettage and uterine curettage :

Curettage and dilation is a traditional artificial abortion, which refers to the operation of scraping the endometrium or the contents of the uterine cavity. This is a minor surgery commonly performed in obstetrics and gynecology and is one of the methods of artificial abortion. Curettage means that medical abortion is not completely complete and the remaining embryonic tissue in the uterus needs to be cleaned out mechanically. Although the operating procedures of the two are basically the same, you must pay attention to rest afterwards, strictly prohibit sexual intercourse within one month, pay attention to cleanliness, and take medicine on time. However, generally speaking, curettage refers to artificial abortion, while uterine curettage refers to the second operation required after failed medical abortion or artificial abortion. The two are essentially different, so there is a difference between curettage and uterine cleaning.