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Re: pelvic exam alternatives-please reply!
From: Anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 19 May 2003 12:25:47 -0500 (CDT)
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>From her reply she had her mind made up before she posted and nothing
that is said will change her mind. I'm not quite sure why she posted in
the first place. If she feels that strongly I hope she never gets
pregnant.
>>Just comments:
>>What have you been through to make a pelvic exam this abhorent to you is
>>my first question (I don't need an answer, I'm sure that is private)?
>>Research for a month -- really. Wow. I suppose to someone 16, that is
>>a really long time.
>>Your mind is obviously made up and you are right --- it is your choice.
>>Please, when you begin working full-time, make sure you have really good
>>health insurance so in the off chance that your plan doesn't work you
>>will be covered and it won't be on the taxpayers tab.
>
>>No health insurance plan in the world, including Medicaid, is going to cover ultrasounds,MRI, etc. (which is how she plans to be examined)to diagnose fibroids and cysts without a pelvic exam first. If she can afford all these self examining kits bought over the internet, then she has no business being on Medicaid anyway. By the time she discovers her "plan" isn't working it's too late to survive a gynecological cancer anyway, so don't waste money on health insurance premiums. And if she has to ask what diseases will go undetected with her methodology, then her "month of research" wasn't very exhaustive.
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>>At Thu, 8 May 2003, Colleen wrote:
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>>>I am a 16 year old female who will avoid having pelvic exams at all
>>>costs because I'd feel violated and I don't like the fact that some
>>>doctor would be touching me "down there" after they've done it several
>>>times already that day.I
>>>responsibility for my health, so I started to research alternatives.I
>>>knew ultrasounds would take care of cyst and fibroid detection, but what
>>>about pelvic cancer? It took many gynecology books,and many hunts on the
>>>internet, but after a month of research I discovered self collection.I
>>>had already had the idea that I could take the samples of vaginal fluid
>>>(for STDs) and cervical cells (for HPV, infection, and cancer) myself,
>>>but now I know it really is possible., STDs,
>>>cysts/fibroids, and cervical cancer aside, what things could possibly
>>>still go undetected with my alternative?
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