Ladies - how fussy are you when it comes to getting a smear done?

Careful_with_that_Axe

The appointment is made. Next Wednesday afternoon and I can't cancel it as I am seeing the doc straight after for a meds review. Bit embarassing making the appointment at the desk in front of everyone as she said it had to be 10 days after last period and I had to pipe up that I'm on HRT! I had a very early menopause, but didn't need everyone else to know about it!:o:D

aliasojo

Good for you! Well done for getting up the courage to make the app. :T

That's the hardest bit imo. Once you make the app, it seems a little easier to accept it's a 'fait accompi' from there on in.

Careful_with_that_Axe

Thank you. I just started freaking myself out about it, so diverted my mind by searching for chocolate instead

aliasojo

Careful_with_that_Axe wrote: »

......so diverted my mind by searching for chocolate instead

Morrisons are selling Easter Eggs for a pound just now. I've just had a mini eggs one. :D

Careful_with_that_Axe

aliasojo wrote: »

Morrisons are selling Easter Eggs for a pound just now. I've just had a mini eggs one. :D

You ... you ..... Enabler!

pennypitstop_2

Sublime wrote: »

One nurse couldn't find my cervix, so after ages of probing, told me I had to come back so someone else could have a go. I was not happy.

Exactly! I apparently have 'a long cervix' and despite telling the nurse this, was still subject t three rounds of internal interrogation before they go the sample she was happy with! Then, i got wrong advice from her about my coil ('it will only work for 3 years, you might get pregnant or it might become infected').:eek: I rang my sexual health clinic where the coil was fitted (4 years ago) and they told me that advice was about 15 years out of date as they use different coils nowadays:cool: and the new ones, which I have, would be good for 5 years at least!

Still, I agree it's a process we have to go through, I'd rather put up with some numpty woman talking rubbish about day-to-day stuff and be cancer-clear than not have the all-clear from the lab at all.

Penny

Mad-Frog

Just wanted to say a huge well done for those of you that have overcome your fears and have gone or are going for your smear :T

I don't like going but always go I have had two colposcopy's both I am pleased to say came back normal, the last one was a couple of years ago and I have to say the doctors and nurse's were lovely, the nurses held my hand lol they know you are nervous and help you all the way through

Tell the nurse you are nervous, my nurse gets me to put my hands behind my back near my bottom as this helps the angle apparently

Personally I hate going to the dentist for a scale and polish more than a smear (scale and polish hurts )

ps I always have a 'haircut' and a very long shower before I go.... smear not dentist

peachyprice

Mad-Frog wrote: »

Personally I hate going to the dentist for a scale and polish more than a smear (scale and polish hurts )

I haven't had a scale & polish for years, I'd rather a smear any day, dental hygienist are just torturers in green face masks

Crispy_Ambulance

peachyprice wrote: »

I haven't had a scale & polish for years, I'd rather a smear any day, dental hygienist are just torturers in green face masks

Agree. I hate both experiences although I think the scale and polish just about shades it.

Ever since I had to have a smear test holding on to a hysterical baby, they've never seemed so bad! He had terrible separation anxiety and I was so tense with him howling in the pushchair it was just easier to fetch him out.

Sarahdol75

I also would like to say a huge well done to all that have their smear tests done, I know it is a horrible process that has to be done, but please do have them.

Unfortunately I lost my sister to cervical cancer in 2007 at the age of 27 she had 2 young boys aswell. She had been ill for a long time and had regular smear tests, was loosing weight and feeling very ill, she had a smear test done and it came back that she had cervical cancer and it had spread really bad in the 2 years previous, we were all absolutely gutted.

Myself and family members nursed her through it all as she was so ill for another 2 years, with having chemo and radiotherapy and various other treatments, she was eventually admitted into a hospice, so we looked after her in there as well, as she didn't want nurses looking after her as she was so proud and didnt want to loose her dignity. I have never seen anybody in soooo much pain and all I wanted to do was take it away from her.

So I urge you all, no matter how embarrasing or degrading you all feel that it is, smear tests do save lives, I now have mine done yearly because of what happened to my sister, I hate going with a passion but I would rather not go through what I did with her and leave my 2 boys without a mum as I see my sisters children struggling without their mum.