cervical screening/ smear test

Debt_Free_Chick

pavlovs_dog wrote:

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thank you all for helping to put my mind at ease, its much appreciated :beer:

Try and remember some of what we've said when you're lying there staring at the bad decorating job done on the ceiling :rolleyes:

Katyag

Debt_Free_Chick wrote:

Try and remember some of what we've said when you're lying there staring at the bad decorating job done on the ceiling :rolleyes:

In my docs surgery they have put really cheesy posters on the roof. So when you are lying down all you can see is some smiling dog saying a really bizarre comment!! lol

stumpjumper

Do they always do a pelvic examination? cos the Dr did this last time I had a smear and it's totally put me off going again (much to the annoyance of my new Dr!)

pavlovs_dog

what exactly does a pelvic examination entail :eek: ?

Katyag

A pelvic exam is just another name for a smear aint it?

Savvy_Sue

I've just had an internal exam that wasn't a smear, lovely lady doctor put her - is it a speculum? - inside and felt my tummy at the same time. She couldn't see or feel anything unusual.

stumpjumper, they do have to put the speculum inside and look as they are doing the smear to make sure they are getting cells from the right place and to check visually for any abnormalities. If you can think about what put you off what happened, and decide if you would feel more comfortable with a different doctor that might be helpful. For example you might prefer a woman doctor (although it's the nurses not the doctors who usually do them at our surgery), or you might have had a particularly clumsy and painful experience. It shouldn't usually be more than uncomfortable, although I believe if you have a tilted cervix it can be more difficult. But at least if you KNOW that's the case then you're better prepared.

sneekymum

Well I have opted out of the Cervical Screening program.

I do not consider myself to be at risk of a sexually transmitted disease (unless Sneekydad has something to tell me).

The opting out was suggested to me by my good friend the millitant feminist consultant ob/gynae who's well unhappy that women have been brianwashed into thinking that being screened for STDs is some sort of public duty.

pavlovs_dog

i thought they tested for abnormal (ie pre cancerous cells) and that the std/ sexual health checks were an optional add on?

sneekymum

Cervical Cancer is 99% a STD

pavlovs_dog

sneekymum wrote:

Cervical Cancer is 99% a STD

do you have any links i could have a nose at?