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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11515944/

I was kind of taken aback when I found out that paracetmol + NSAID if even that seems to be the most common pain management option for cervical biopsy. The article above seems to imply lidocaine is the best practice but isn't super clear, and mentions that it still isn't common practice.

Second hand account of an arguement so I don't know the exact wording, but one of the OB/GYNs apparently insisted that was impossible someone had cervical pain because of the absence of nerves, and the cause must be some other part of the procedure.

And I mean, if you yourself have one or have a willing volunteer nearby you can quite easily test this out yourself, yet to encounter someone who didn't either have a significant reaction postively or negatively to stimulation there. Was/is there actually widespread medical literature saying that the cervix is insensate? How did this come about? What's the current state of things? Am I totally wrong somehow, and is something else going on?

Just seems super weird, like something you'd expect from medicine in the 1950's, not something that apparently some physicians, including women docs, still believe to be the case in the current day now that medicine is no longer quite so male dominated.