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Is there something wrong with me?

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Fieldoftrees · 01/12/2022 16:59

A few years ago I became sick. It was with a bad cough. It was before the pandemic. At the time it was put down to hay-fever and now looking back I think it was giving up smoking. The cough was extremely intense. I would cough myself to the point of puking and peeing sometimes. It was awful.

At some stage and I think it was after that, tampons became a little u comfortable for me. They felt like they weren't sitting right in me.

As for sex, my partner has some impotence but on the rare occasion anything does happen, sometimes it can be a struggle to get it in.

I went for a smear this week. It was slightly uncomfortable. No major pain. Just slightly uncomfortable. The nurse got me to make fists and place them under my bum to raise up my bum and tilt the vagina back a little bit.

I don't know if there's anything wrong with my vagina as in possibly a tilted uterus. I don't know. Or something else or nothing at all.

Does anyone here have a tilted uterus and are smear tests slightly uncomfortable?

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EndersGame · 08/12/2022 23:10

could you have a small prolapse? make an appointment with your GP

Fieldoftrees · 09/12/2022 09:04

EndersGame · 08/12/2022 23:10

could you have a small prolapse? make an appointment with your GP

I haven't a clue if it's a prolapse or not. I read about it and it sounds scary. I won't go to my GP yet due to the cold snap. I will wait til the roads are good again.

What do I say to my GP about this though. Its humiliating. Do I go in and say I can't wear tampons any more and I am having difficulty with a cup and sex is uncomfortable and I am worried about a prolapse?

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Fieldoftrees · 09/12/2022 09:05

I had a smear test last week. If I had a prolapse surely it wouldn't have been seen during that procedure?

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BeyondTheLetterOfTheLawTheLetter · 09/12/2022 09:10

Fieldoftrees · 09/12/2022 09:05

I had a smear test last week. If I had a prolapse surely it wouldn't have been seen during that procedure?

Not necessarily, when you're laid on your back things can "flop" back to where they should be - to test for a prolapse a dr would have you bear down.

Do you have children? Not that it's essential, a prolapse can form without pregnancy, but it is the most likely cause in a younger (assuming there!) woman

Trez1510 · 09/12/2022 09:19

I have a tilted womb and have always had to do the fist under the bum thing.

I've also always felt the smear mildly uncomfortable even although I generally have a pretty high pain threshold.

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