To think this GP is wrong about my 'retroverted cervix'?

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RevoltingPeasant · 02/12/2011 20:55

I am totally weirded out by this diagnosis.

Went for my first-ever smear today (yay!) and the GP said I had a retroverted cervix as she was having trouble finding it.

But... I had an ultrasound last year of my abdominal area and it said I had an anteverted uterus. I asked her how this could be, and she said the two could co-exist.

AIBU to wonder if that is actually possible and to think that her difficulty in finding my cervix is down to something else? I don't see how you can have an anteverted uterus and then the cervix which is at the end of point in a different direction .

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LingDiLong · 02/12/2011 20:58

Have you had a baby in between these 'diagnoses'? I only ask because I got told I had a tretroverted cervix at my last smear but had never been told this before. When I asked about it I'm sure the Dr said it can retrovert after having kids.

sleeplessinderbyshire · 02/12/2011 21:01

if your uterus is anteverted (points forwards) your cervix has to point backwards (google some anatomy pictures if you don't believe me)

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RevoltingPeasant · 02/12/2011 21:17

sleepless okay, that does make sense but I have googled (well, wikipedia'd ) and the anteverted uterus doesn't seem to have a backwards pointing cervix - also on various sites I've seen it says the anteverted uterus is the normal position, but surely retroverted cervices aren't normal?

sorry

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RevoltingPeasant · 02/12/2011 21:19

"The uterus is mobile and moves under the pressure of the full bladder or full rectum anteriorly, whereas if both are full it moves upwards. Increased intraabdominal pressure pushes it downwards. The mobility is conferred to it by musculo-fibrous apparatus that consists of suspensory and sustentacular part. Under normal circumstances the suspensory part keeps the uterus in anteflexion and anteversion (in 90% of women) and keeps it "floating" in the pelvis."

Wikipedia.....so is this wrong and anteversion is NOT normal?

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hairytaleofnewyork · 02/12/2011 21:22

Yanbu. I have had this - one examination ante, another retero.

eurochick · 02/12/2011 21:51

Were you laying the other way up?

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sleeplessinderbyshire · 03/12/2011 07:43

70% of women have an anteverted uterus (ie the uterus points forwards) imagine a balloon - if the balloon points towards you, the knotted end is away from you ditto if the uterus points forwards the cervix is at the back

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