Seriously what is wrong with women using excuses such as anxiety to stop you from getting your health checked!. its 2019 parents should tell their girls and adults should tell themselves. It doesn't work like that! The fear of cancer should override the fear of someone just for 30 seconds to a minute, usually a female taking a sample from your vagina. They do not even have to look at your vagina, they dont care they see so many females in one day. People have sex with practically a stranger after a night out but are " afraid" to get a smear test..They are happy to twerk in public show their fannies to strangers joke about sex but afraid to just go doctors. These people need to get a grip. Test your breasts and your vagina nothing more nothing less. They teach it in sex ed. So if parents are so sheepish to say then they hear the information everywhere. Too much spoon feeding on health matters. Anxiety is real it happens to people people do fear stuff but there is a wide number of people faking it because they are attention seekers and liars.
This is a REALLY ignorant comment. How dare you say that people need to get a grip when it comes to anxiety about pap smears. You do not always know everybody's story about why they have anxiety for it.
I had a bad medical experience as a teenager and because of that developed vaginismus. I am a unique case, in that, I can have sex with my husband but when it comes to vaginal medical exams, I can't have them. Vaginismus is a condition in which your muscles involuntary spasm and contract, therefore, making penetration impossible - for me, this only happens in a medical situation, i.e. a smear test. Think of vaginismus like a reflex. When someone goes to poke your eye, your eye will close, it is an automatic reaction. When a gynecologist goes to do my pap smear, my vagina muscles involuntary tense up. In the UK, I was told it was all in my mind and essentially made to feel crazy, but since I moved to Canada, I have found an amazing gynecologist.
You do not know the anxiety this has caused me. I know how important it is to get a pap done and the fact that I couldn't get it done normally made me SO upset. I tried relaxing, using Ativan, etc and it didn't work. I had my pap done under mild sedation as that is the only way it could get done. She also referred me to a psychologist who is helping me work through it with CBT and exposure therapy. It is not until recently that I have started telling people about mine, as I think vaginismus is a condition which needs to be spoken about.
I do not normally get so enraged by comments on here but this really struck a chord for me, as I wish I was able to just lie down and have a smear done normally.
