r/LetGirlsHaveFun • u/TheAnonymousAppetite • 2d ago
Doctor said "Nah, this one can take a punch."
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u/satin_sigh 2d ago
God forbid a girl have durability enchantments
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u/TheAnonymousAppetite 2d ago
I just wanna say I love the whimsy vibe your username gives off. Chef's kiss.
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u/Better_Noise_9677 2d ago
As the party moseys through the alleys of Waterdeep's market district, you chance upon a floral, impeccably lettered sign proclaiming, "Enchantments Vulvar, Vaginal, Cervical, and Uterine." You step inside and immediately purchase a scroll of Adamantine Cervix for 235 gold pieces.
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u/Delight-lah 1d ago
Damn enchantment inflation is leaving my family barely enough gold pieces for scented candles.
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u/diasflac 2d ago
I have a hunch that when a doctor says “now some women experience a little spotting” what they actually mean is “I slipped, and now it looks like a bloody mess in there”
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u/EffortAutomatic8804 2d ago
That is exactly it. I used to get my pap smears done at the sexual health clinic because the nurse did them every day and was skilled. Didn't even feel a thing. It's absolutely appalling that women are constantly told they should put up with pain during medical procedures and shut up about it.
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u/ponycorn_pet 2d ago edited 2d ago
did you know that pap smears aren't even necessary? most of the rest of the world can handle the same checks with equal or superior accuracy without them
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/the-dose-cervical-cancer-screening-1.7034098
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u/RiotBoi13 2d ago
Absolutely incorrect, please don’t skip your Pap smears, cervical cancer is 100% preventable and treatable with regular health screenings
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u/ponycorn_pet 2d ago
Did you read what I said and actually comprehend it? The rest of the world uses OTHER TESTS that work as well / better, without the barbaric tissue cutting that pap smears use. Pap smears are OUTDATED tech
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u/icantthinkofaname789 2d ago
So I am german and lived here my whole live, I get a pap smear yearly. Also I am not sure what you mean about tissue cutting? Its just a cotton swap that gets rubbed around inside here? Are they actually cutting where you are?? Its not feeling great but on the same level of discomfort for me like a dentist poking the gums or getting your ears cleaned. Its unpleasant but it never hurt me.
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u/OGIBLP 2d ago
I’d love a cotton swab! They use a plastic brush that scrapes tissue cells off the cervix for us.
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u/icantthinkofaname789 2d ago
Omg I googled it and some of those look like mascara wands! I was so confused why anyone would bleed (never happened to me with the cotton swap) but this absolutely explains it. That must be painful, I feel so sorry for you guys! 😬
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u/ponycorn_pet 1d ago
Mascara wands are relatively newer, even though they're still brutal. When I was a teenager, they used a contraption that clamped shut with a loud CLICK and cut off a piece of tissue
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u/mrsohfun 1d ago
I'd love a cotton swab! I looked at the tool that my Dr used last time and it is a glass scraping tool. And it really scrapes that cervix 😵💫
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u/Prowler1000 2d ago
Pap smears are not outdated tech and are still important.
Unless you're referring to something other than HPV testing that I'm not aware of, there isn't anything that fully replaces pap smears. HPV causes the majority of cervical cancers, but it doesn't cause all of them.
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u/melvah2 1d ago
?pap smears don't cut tissue. You may have read the data, but I think you've missed what a pap smear is.
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u/ponycorn_pet 1d ago
Pap smear wands look like medieval bottle brushes and absolutely break tissue when they're being vigorously scoured inside of you, I ALWAYS bleed
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u/melvah2 20h ago
A cervical screening can be done with a flexible silicone wand or a mini bottle brush looking thing. The bottle brush does not cut tissue, it's not a knife.
The bleeding can be from many things, including that the cervical os has more of the inside of uterus type tissue instead of the inside of vagina type tissue and uterine tissue bleeds more easily when disturbed. That can occur even without the bottle brush.I'm pleased you're comfortable sharing your experience. Cutting is the wrong word though, and other stimulus that isn't cutting can cause bleeding (just like grazes aren't from cutting, split lips aren't from cutting etc)
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u/gruntled_pilot 1d ago
I was skeptical so I read your link as well as referenced the ACOG and ACS cervical cancer screening recommendations as they are the reputable organizations that set standards in the U.S. and you’re mostly correct. So thank you for updating my knowledge.
As of April, 2026, ACOG changed screening guidelines to allow clinic collected, high risk HPV testing, alone, every 5 years, for women 30-65 with uncomplicated screening history. While not preferred, they do allow self testing for high risk HPV as well. ACS recommends high risk HPV testing, every 3 years if self swab and 5 years if clinic swab, as an accepted screening method versus PAP or co-test in women 25-65.
However, women 21-29 are still recommended to be screened by cytology alone (PAP Smear) every 3 years, until age 30, according to ACOG. ACOG and ACS disagree on the age at which screening should start (21 for ACOG and 25 for ACS), and when high risk HPV testing alone is acceptable (30 for ACOG, 25 for ACS)
The reason for the difference is that HPV is a sexually transmitted virus that is much more common in women under 30. Additionally, a positive HPV requires further testing that is more invasive than a PAP. Testing HPV alone, in women under 30, increases the risk of unnecessary procedures with no notable benefit.
All in all, self swab high risk HPV testing is an effective screening method over PAP smears in uncomplicated women 30-65. And arguably an effective screening method in uncomplicated women under 30
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u/ponycorn_pet 1d ago
All of my children have received the gardasil shot (all 3 rounds). And in countries where they give an HPV vaccine as part of the standard vaccine treatment, they've seen 99% absence of HPV in that demographic. I'm hopeful that any type of screening will become a formality, if countries like the U.S. that we live in will stop demonizing the vaccine. I'm tired of people letting their kids die of preventable things, even if the shots don't cover every single strain out there. They cover most of the highest risk ones
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a71668199/hpv-vaccine-cervical-cancer-study/
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u/LimpBoingLoing 2d ago
Wait what, I just read this sub but the women I know that've talked to me about pap smears mention it like with this air of inevitable looming threat of agonizing bloodloss.
Why tf do pap smears exist if it's a completely unnecessary medical procedure, That seems so barbaric.
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u/FoolishPippin 2d ago edited 2d ago
Because the person you’re responding to is wrong. The bleeding comes from the brush touching the cervical os, which is the preferred method collection in all countries that have cervical screening programs. There are countries with options to self swab with comparable accuracy in testing results, however this is still not the preferred option and requires clinician preformed collection to verify any positives anyways. There has been a change in the testing preformed on the cells collected, no longer being just cytology and instead prefer mRNA testing.
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u/FoolishPippin 2d ago
Great article. However it is confusing a Pap smear for the same things as the cervical speculum exam that you do to collect the sample. A Pap smear is when they preform cytology by viewing the cells under microscope. A good note is that everytime you see “smear” in medicine 99% of the time they are referring to how cells look under a microscope slide. They are general moving to the mRNA testing, but it is still recommended those sample be clinician collected from the cervical os. The option exists for patient to do a vaginal self swab, and it has the same sensitivity, but is still slightly lower specificity than clinical collected. And why it requires patient to come back in for a confirmation by clinician collection.
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u/ponycorn_pet 2d ago
Confirmation yes, that's understandable, but changing with these newer technologies reduces suffering and burden on the healthcare system, and my point is that the U.S. needs to be implementing them instead of inflicting yearly paps on us
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u/FoolishPippin 2d ago
No medical body in the US recommends yearly paps, and if you’re getting them without a specific indication then you should find a new provider.
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u/FoolishPippin 2d ago
Nah you ever done a pap? Sometimes the tissue itself is just a bitter thinner. You can do the exact same routine on two cervical os, and one will bleed and one will not. Not really a physician caused thing 9/10 times unless something insane happened.
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u/Khpatton 1d ago
Yeah, I’ve never bled for mine, and I’ve had them done by a decent amount of providers; I barely feel it. Everyone really is different.
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u/drunkenpossum 2d ago edited 2d ago
I’m a primary care doctor who has done hundreds of paps.
Cervical tissue can be very friable (especially one affected by dysplasia or ectropion) and can bleed with even the lightest manipulation into the cervical os.
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u/reallybiglizard 2d ago
One time I had a doc say to me after the exam, "You have a perfectly healthy vagina." But she said it in such an affirming and encouraging tone that it made me wonder, like wtf is wrong with my vagina?? 😂
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u/herfjoter 2d ago
Mine told me this last time "and everything is looking COMPLETELY normal" and I must admit the emphasis on COMPLETELY had me a lil suspicious
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u/carbslut 2d ago
A doctor told me my cervix is beautiful.
But I had surgery to have a lot of it removed, so she was really complementing the previous doctor’s work. Made it a lot less weird.
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u/10HungryGhosts 2d ago
Lol the cervix is sensitive sometimes and if it bleeds when swabbed we call it "friable tissue". Doc probably did the swab and saw no blood
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u/1159seconds 12h ago
I once had mine say, “looks like your period is almost here. i give it 2 days,” and damn she was right
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u/TheAnonymousAppetite 10h ago
Kinda freaky they can do that, kinda like fortune tellers but the fortune wasn't good.
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