First smear tomorrow and I'm so anxious

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.. that's why I've avoided all this time. I know I won't be able to sleep tonight thinking about it. It's not even so much the actual test, although I am anxious about that as well, It's more the results. I suffer from health anxiety. I know the waiting for the results will be just as difficult

You are doing the right thing!
When I have things like this I build it up to be v v awful and then it (usually!) is better than my imagination!
Can you specify exactly you are worried about?
I once had a smear due atChristmas and was run ragged and the lovely nurse let me stay lying down for half an hour to have a rest!
Also I tell my DH that you cannot have sex 2 weeks after a smear
Also he thinks that it quite an invasive procedure so for 2/3 days after I have to take things v easy - he still hasn't realised yet!

@mumofEandE that made me laugh about DH, I might try that and tell him it is a much more invasive procedure and I need waiting on
I think I'm more worried about waiting for the results. After a traumatic health event a couple of years ago I have really bad anxiety, any letters that arrive in the post from nhs sets of a panic attack and I know they will write with my results soon after.

Honestly, please try and stop worrying. I have had loads, for the nurse it’s like looking at an arm.

Put it in perspective, why would you have bad results? There is no reason why you would be different to anyone else. If a friend was saying this to you and she was so worried she wouldn’t sleep, what would you think?

Please put it into perspective, you are over thinking massively - from another anxiety major sufferer xxx