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How high is your cervix?

32 replies

kiransmum · 03/12/2003 16:44

Strange question I know but I have read that around the time you are ovulating your cervix is very high so that you can only just reach it with your fingers. It is also softer at this time. After ovulation as you approach your period it becomes lower again and harder. Has anyone else tried this out?
I have really long and irregular cycles and I'm looking for all the clues I can to understand what is happening when.

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twiglett · 03/12/2003 17:01

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Queenie · 03/12/2003 17:30

Well I don't know how high but last time I had a smear test the doctor and nurse were both looking up my "flue" through the contraption and one was saying to the other, as though I was outside the room, "look it's over there on the left". Now is that something to worry about??

melliek · 03/12/2003 18:07

my.webmd.com/content/article/73/87987.htm
check this out, I am trying to follow this signs of my cervix too! Just for fun! Good luck

Jimjams · 08/12/2003 20:14

Queenie- I've had nurses outside the door saying "I've never seen such a posterior cervix, goodness". Thought they were going to put me on display ;o

princesspeahead · 08/12/2003 20:43

jim jams me too! but they alternately call it posterior and retroverted which makes me laugh because I always think of my cervix now as introverted....
makes smears etc f*ing uncomfortable though

SueW · 08/12/2003 21:39

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Frieda · 08/12/2003 22:08

I had a smear last week and the nurse who did it was rooting around for ages. After getting me to sit on my hands and cough she finally found it, and reassuringly added "Oh, you have got one after all!"

Frieda · 08/12/2003 22:09

I had a smear last week and the nurse who did it was rooting around for ages. After getting me to sit on my hands and cough she finally found it, and reassuringly added "Oh, you have got one after all!"

Frieda · 08/12/2003 22:10

I had a smear last week and the nurse who did it was rooting around for ages. After getting me to sit on my hands and cough she finally found it, and reassuringly added "Oh, you have got one after all!"

Frieda · 08/12/2003 22:10

Ooops! It wasn't that funny

Ghosty · 08/12/2003 22:14

Queenie ... couldn't help laughing at the image of your doctor and nurse searching for your cervix ... did they have miners' hats on to
When I was told I had a retroverted womb during a scan my DH thought it was dead cool that his wife had a 'Retro' womb

ks · 08/12/2003 22:22

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pie · 08/12/2003 22:33

Oh god, all these tales of retroverted uterus's and high cervix's (I have both too) are making squirm. I'm having my mirena put in next week and they are already planning on giving me a local for it.

When I had my coil removed at 8 weeks pregnant they didn't have a light so the SHO went and borrowed a torch from the porter as they couldn't see my cervix. The doctors looked like a couple of miners When I went to the EPU they kept asking me if I was sure I was pregnant as they couldn't see my uterus...er yeah, I've had a kid before I know its there!

princesspeahead · 08/12/2003 22:38

well I wasn't going to post this and I hope no-one I know is reading this but here goes... pie when I had my mirena fitted a few weeks ago, the doctor told me that i had a "very long vagina" and that "the speculum was almost not long enough" !!!!!
I told her that after my fair share of lovers, three children and numerous internal exams, it was nice to learn something new!!

pie · 08/12/2003 22:43

pph, I've heard that too!

er..not about you I mean

quackers · 09/12/2003 08:51

ROFL
YOU ALL MADE ME LAUGH TODAY!!!!!

aH, NEEDED THAT!!

princesspeahead · 09/12/2003 09:50

phew, I thought you meant my fame had spread to west london pie!

M2T · 09/12/2003 10:01

ROFL at all of you with your posterior and 'shy' cervix's (is that a word?)!!!

roam · 09/12/2003 10:23

melliek I've spent ages trying to find that particular section but can't. Are you one of those really clever people who can do those fancy links?

fio2 · 09/12/2003 21:07

I am retroverted too!!! thought I was the only one. Smears are a nightmare arent they!

Queenie · 09/12/2003 21:28

Ooh, thought this thread had tailed off so LOL at the comments - SueW your comments re long fingers made me squirm as brought flashbacks of being induced with ds. It was so painful I am sure the mw whole hand, right up to the wrist, was in there. I asked for an epidural for the second attempt :0

fio2 · 09/12/2003 21:30

I had exactly the same sue - 'fetch the midwife with the longest fingers!" I was quite horrified

suedonim · 09/12/2003 21:50

Another retroverted person here. Are there any 'issues' with it, apart from smears, which I don't think have been too difficult for me?

Lol at Frieda's 'rooting around' Sounds like the nurse was trying to catch a ferret trapped in a sack!!

magnum · 09/12/2003 21:51

Apparantly I have a 'tubular' one. Don't know exactly what that means. Anyone else have one of these???

Lisa78 · 09/12/2003 21:58

I've got visions of medics in miners hats, wearing hiking boots and carrying a flask of bovril!