I agree it's not as bad as you think. I had one of the two Queen mentioned - can't even remember now, but I was awake for it. The prep is fine if you have no expectations to do anything else. The procedure is as joyful as you would expect but I figure everything done in a hospital is invasive and embarrassing and they do it all day long so it doesn't bother me much. I got over my shyness having 3 kids...