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What is a PAP test? I know you have to get it when you get our period but what is it?
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At some point, once you have started your period, and hopefully before, and definitly after, you have started to have sexual relations, you should make an appointment with a gynecologist. You should make the appointment once each year. During the exam, she will conduct a pap test, or pap smear, as one advisor said. He/She takes a smear of cells from the tissue of your cervix. Your cervix is inside your vagina, and it is the opening to your urterus. Many women get and have died from cervial cancer, but it is very preventable if caught early. So that is why women get a pap smear each year. It is just a very good idea. Also if you want to get on birth control of some kind, you will need to see the gynecologist. She can tell you all about the different options and the prescribe one for you. So you should go an see an gyncologist, like I said if you are sexually active, or by the time you are 18. And then go once a year after that for the rest of your life. To stay healthy. Yes, it's awkward, but you get used to it, and if you find a nice doctor, it's not so bad.
Michele
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"The Pap test (also called a Pap smear) checks for changes in the cells of your cervix. The cervix is the lower part of the uterus (womb) that opens into the vagina (birth canal). The Pap test can tell if you have an infection, abnormal (unhealthy) cells, or cancer."
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Hope this helps!! :)
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All's I know is that you dont get it when you start your period you get it when you have sex!!! My mom is a paramedic, (she told me!) Hoped I helped at least a little!!
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