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what exactly do they do when you get a pap smear?
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It's a real quick test that takes only a few minutes. Your gyno will ask you to lie down on an exam table and put your feet in stirrups. They put a sheet over your legs and stomach. The gyno puts a speculum into your vagina, and opens it to see the cervix and then they do the pap test. They will either use a brush or a swab to take a few cells from inside and around the cervix. Then they put the cells on a small glass slide, and check it to make sure they're healthy. The whole thing is usually painless.
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A pap smear is not as bad as most people seem to think it is. Trust me, because of problems with my cervix, I have had hundreds of exams since I was 13 years old.
Most women do not start to get an exam until they are sexually mature, or they turn 18. Your doctor, whether male or female, will be completely professional, and there is no reason to feel shy. You can ask to have a parent present if that would make you more comfortable, but for me, I was more comfortable going in alone.
You will be asked to strip down below the waist, put a towel or sheet around your waist, and sit on a table. Once the doctor comes in, you will be asked to put your feet in the stir-ups and lay down. This will look like what you happens when a doctor is examining a pregnant woman when she is giving birth. There will be a nurse in the room at all times, to help the doctor, but the sheet will cover most of the view.
The doctor will need to put something inside you, and it will clamp open so that your doctor can look inside you. This is a bit uncomfortable, but is not painful.
The point of a pap smear is to take some slides of the fluids inside you. He will take tissue samples by swabbing a large Q-tip on various parts of your anatomy, including your cervix.
Getting a regular pap smear is very important. I am only 21, but like I said, I have had problems with my cervix for over 8 years already. I recently had an abnormal pap smear. The fact that I get regular pap smears quite possibly saved my life. If it had been left untreated, then it would have turned cancerous.
A simply surgery, and two days later I was back to work and school. So, go get your regular pap smears. Even if your young, it definately doesn't mean that your invincible.
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