Pain and Suction Curettage

Inclusion Criteria: * pregnant participants between 35-48 days of gestation (5 to 7 weeks of gestation) pregnant participants with a single viable intrauterine pregnancy requesting termination of pregnancy. Exclusion Criteria: incomplete abortions, diabetes mellitus, tendency to bleed such as thrombocytopenia, factor deficiency and functional disorders of platelets… etc, pelvic infection, known cervical stenosis, significantly impaired respiratory or cardiac conduction functions, active liver disease, renal disease, previous adverse reaction to any of the drugs used in the study, and patients who are unable to understand how to score a 10-cm visual analog scale (VAS) pain score. Moreover, patients who described chronic pelvic pain prior to the study or patients who rated their pain level on a continuous 100-mm VAS different from 0 (no pain) just before the study were not included into study.