Im booked in for a hysteroscopy at the end of the week and Im absolutely terrified ! By all accounts it can be very painful but I also have a tilted womb which makes it hard for them to get to my cervix - I had a transvaginsal (?) ( internal) scan and that was painful enough , the person doing the scan kept apologising because she was quite rough having to push bowel etc out of the way to locate the cervix - i believe i can ask for aneasthtic or gas and air but how sympathetic have others found people when requesting this ?