Do you need anesthesia for abortion? There are two types

During the abortion operation, anesthesia is required because it involves placing a vaginal dilator, dilating the cervical canal, and scraping the uterine cavity. Otherwise, the patient will feel unbearable severe pain. There are two main types of anesthesia. One is local anesthesia of the cervix, in which the patient will be conscious but not feel pain. The other is intravenous anesthesia, in which the patient is like sleeping throughout the operation and has no consciousness.

For women who are pregnant for less than three months, the safest way to terminate the pregnancy is to have an abortion. Compared with medical abortion, artificial abortion can ensure that the embryonic tissue is removed more cleanly and without sequelae. However, during the operation, there will be more or less obvious pain. Is anesthesia given during abortion?
1. Is anesthesia required during abortion?
1. Anesthesia is required <br/>If anesthesia is not used during the abortion, there will be a strong sense of pain, so anesthesia is required. In particular, everyone's pain perception is different. If an abortion is performed without anesthesia, the pain may be unbearable. Severe cases may even irritate the gastrointestinal tract, leading to symptoms of nausea and vomiting. However, the abortion operation time is relatively short and can be completed within half an hour under normal circumstances. As long as anesthesia is used, no pain will be felt during the operation. During the postoperative anesthesia recovery period, there may be mild abdominal pain, but it will gradually ease until it disappears after 24 hours.
2. Adverse reactions after anesthesia <br/>After the abortion surgery, the patient will generally wake up in about three to five minutes. At this time, some people will feel dizzy, as if they were drunk. But generally, after lying still for fifteen minutes, the discomfort will disappear after the anesthetic is metabolized and excreted. However, some people may have more adverse reactions, not only dizziness, but also uterine contraction pain and abdominal pain. These are normal reactions during drug metabolism and will not cause long-term harm to the human body.
What are the types of anesthesia for abortion?
1. Local anesthesia <br/>Conventional abortions are performed with local anesthesia. During the operation, there are steps that may cause different degrees of pain, such as placing a vaginal dilator, dilating the cervical canal, and scraping the uterine cavity. Therefore, the surgeon will give local anesthesia to the cervix before the operation. The anesthetic drug usually selected is lidocaine injection. When performing an abortion under local anesthesia, the patient is conscious but will not feel obvious pain.
2. Intravenous anesthesia <br/>For women who are afraid of surgery or are sensitive to pain, they can choose intravenous anesthesia as long as they meet the signs of intravenous anesthesia. Women who choose to use intravenous anesthetics with analgesic and sedative effects will be asleep and unconscious throughout the operation and will not feel anything. After the anesthetic effect wears off, there may be tolerable abdominal pain, but it can be relieved immediately after resting for a while.