to be amazed that so many women have never felt their own cervix?

[AtYourCervix]

Admittedly I may be biased but I do think it is peculiar that so many women haven't explored their own bodies and even more peculiar that so many women think it is peculiar that I think it is peculiar.
AIBU?

can understand why women would not want to, but not the ewwwww/weird response

is it cos it is internal?

familiarity with your own body, menstrual cycle, breast changes , discharge is good, you know when your healthy and when you need checking out

I'm amazed more people don't squeeze their black-heads..more-less fiddle with their cervix..

I tried after reading this thread and if whatever I found is the cervix I think it has a spot or something. So now I am feeling worried about it somehow

I can honesly say the idea of having a good old rummage about up there has never occured to me. And now that it has i think i'll pass, i'm not going to stick my fingers up my nose to try and touch my brains either.

I have always checked, particularly as i have 2 polyps on mine and am keeping an eye (well not an eye,more a long finger) on them

(GilmoreGeek That might be what your 'spot' is,they're fine as long as they don't get too big,or bleed)

Urgh, no! The tiny long-handled broom they use to brush it during smear tests makes me feel slightly sick and weird, like the nurse is trying to undo my tummy button from the inside.

Also I have very small fingers so I don't think I could reach it, even if I wanted to.

Oh dear is this because I suggested on another thread that the OP have a feel of her cervix ?

I have a coil so I am used to having a gentle feel rummage, so it never occured to me it was anythign 'strange'

I have also seen mine on TV while having Colposcopy - have never attempted to feel it myself though.

I have to have yearly smears (lucky me) and without fail the nurse complains that it's too hard to find so I doubt I'd have much luck anyway. Last time, I ended up on my side with my arse stuck out over the side of the bed while the nurse had "one last go" at trying to locate it having spent a good 5 minutes chasing it round!!

So dignified! NOT

Interesting site with photos of a "cycling cervix"

www.beautifulcervix.com/cervix-photo-galleries/photos-of-cervix/

I have felt mine often when I was TTC....I also read a lot about "Oh you shouldn't examine yourself like that when pregnant...it's for a doctor"

WHAT?

If it's reachable it's ok. It's healthy to understand your body surely? All this making ou bodies a secret thing yet it's ok for a strange doctor to feel it.

Odd.

I had one.

It decided to drop out and make an entrance to the world.

I had enough of feeling like it would fall out of my knickers.

I'm without one now and feel liberated.

Cervix's are not all that.

um, if you want a picture - try this one www.cakewrecks.blogspot.com - and look on entry for March 9

I use a mooncup and don't think I'm acquainted with my cervix. I'm usually hanging on to the bottom of the cup - the bit furthest away from where I think my cervix must be. Am I doing something wrong.

I think mine was pretty much somewhere up under my ribcage before childbirth - the MWs always had difficulty finding it.

I think it has 'descended' since then though - if it's where I think it is, ie about an inch or so up, on the anterior wall. Can someone in the know advise me whether this is physiologically possible?

I tried to find mine once, never knew what I was looking for.

It didn't like me anyway and kept tryng to turn cancerous so it was whipped out.

I don't even know where mine is to look for it.

I had a sweep last week, took her long enough to find it, and she had the advantage of sight.

Can't say it's on my bucket list.

Not a sweep. A smear.

I'm not pregnant.

Jellycat, thank you. Was quite worried there for a moment (the things mumsnet does to you )

I will get it checked out next time I am at the GP I guess.

Not sure I want to dig for my brain next, god knows what I would find then

Gilmore - You'll need very very long fingers to dig for your brain through the same entrance

never had desire to do

I have a low cervix and once went to the doctor because I felt something odd on it.

Her (!) response was, "and why would you want to be feeling yourself there?" with a look of revulsion.

I was only in my early twenties and felt terrible about it. My flatmate wanted to go back with me and have harsh words.

Jellykat: That's a shame because my ear isn't big enough to accommodate my huge sausage fingers

Spermy: That is really unfortunate. I don't think doctors should make anyone feel guilty for touching their own body ever! And it's especially bad when you actually went there because you thought something is wrong. Being made feel guilty will not help us when trying to find out whether everything is ok with us. And our bodies simply doe include breasts etc that need to be touched and investigated. I hope you never went back!!

I was complimented by a (female) doctor on my lovely easy to reach cervix, . She then went on to imply that therefore I'd have no problem with using a diaphragm.....errrm, not so much.

I have admired the interior of my shoulder joint in minute detail after an MRI scan too.

I've had that oompliment too, Dilys. The nurse said "Ooh it was right there waiting for me!". It made me feel like I had an exhibitionist cervix, all 'Ta-DA! Look at meeeeeeeeeee!!!'.

oompliment compliment