Is a smear test really nessisary ???

[mummyloveslucy]

I've had a letter enviting me for a smear test. I am 27 and have never had one done. I would find it extreamly embarassing. I just wondered if it was really nessesary. I wasn't young (at all) when I lost my verginity, I've only has one sexual partner(my husband), I don't drink, or smoke and I'm in good health. I'm not high rist at all I don't think.
God, that makes me sound really boaring. Anyway, do you think I should go? and if so does it hurt? Thanks.

If you have had a baby, how can you be embarrassed by having a smear done?

They really have seen it all before- just get it done. 5 minutes of mild embarrassment maybe to save years of suffering.

my practice nurse tells some cringey stories about women who go for smear tests......including one woman who refuses to take her knickers off ,another that wears full stockings and suspenders a woman who wore her husbands boxer shorts cos she had no clean knickers ......a woman whose pubic hairs were so matted together she had to trim her before she smeared.....believe me YOU are probably run of the mill normal the nurse actually said its like being an optician you are focused on what youre looking for and youre not really looking at the bodily part .......

That's so true windygalestoday!!

I could tell you some tales

I remember when I was doing my smear training course I was being assessed, and had a lady in with genital piercings - I had to ask her to unbolt her labia so I could put the speculum in!

UNBOLT HER LABIA??????

sidge your not in the north west are you???

my practice nurse said similar lol

So, it's clean knickers, no suspenders or boxers and a bit of topiary and I'll be fine. My Mum is a midwife and she has some shocking stories to tell. You just wouldn't believe it.

to OP yes get it done my mother died of that
know someone who had it in her late 20's

also get tested for HPV if you can

Oh and no piercings. AWWW
How could you ask her that with a streight face ?? You nurses are stars.

that = cervical cancer

not smear obviously uncomfortable but nothing unbearable also people often get inconclusive results and have to repeat it don't panic it happens likely nothing to worry about

Thanks sfxmum, what is HPV ?

yes you must go before we atart with the true horror stories - and you thought unbolting your labia was bad..............

My Mum is always nagging me to go, but we don't always listen to our Mums do we ? I am definatly going though. She will be relieved.

HPV

LOL at unlocking labia modern day chastity belt of the kinky kind I guess

Yes they are necessary! My friend is a practice nurse and spends nearly all her time doing smears...Its so routine to her that she doesnt think twice about it.
Once its done you wont have to think about it again for a few years.

I'm going to bed now before all this gives me nightmares. I will DEFINATLY make that appointment tommorrow morning. Thanks everyone.
I'll really owe you all one if it comes back positive. Big hugs to all of you who have lost someone close through this desiese. xx

I have always found long skirt and flip flops/sockless shoes best for anything like this - no thing of "should I take my socks off?" etc

This is the article I read in NOW about the change in age for when you get called for a test, I hadn't even realised it had changed, though it makes sad reading.

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1025334/I-told-I-young-smear-test-I-dying-cervical-cancer-just-24 .html

Mummyloveslucy, you'll be fine - five minutes and you'll be off skipping for your cake

Sorry, could only find it on the DM site, it was Claire in the NOW article.

Windygalestoday no not northwest but I imagine most practice nurses have seen similar