WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for May, 2008: Re: GENERAL: How to make Pelvic exam/pap smear less painful

Re: GENERAL: How to make Pelvic exam/pap smear less painful

From: Pat Sonnenstuhl (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 6 May 2008 19:08:40 -0500 (CDT)

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Thanks for your comments. I did not say all. I said MANY. I suppose you could call it a broad generalization. My experience with other NPs, both professionally and through training provided me with this observation. Of course there are practitioners at all levels that do not honor the clients comfort, and that would include NPs. The key, as you have stated, is to find someone who honors your comfort. No debate about that. It can be a perfectly comfortable exam, which is what I was stating.

<<At Tue, 6 May 2008, grateful mom wrote: >
>I beg to differ with Pat's comment that women (or NP's) do a more gentle
>exam. That is way too broad of a statement. The absolute worst care
>and roughest exams I have had have been done by women.
>
>I feel like the most important thing to remember is that you should be
>comfortable with your Dr or NP or whomever is doing your exam. It
>doesn't hurt to take a xanax or such before an exam.
>
>I was examined the first time before I was sexually active and it did
>not hurt a bit, and it was medically necessary.
>
<<<< I also have found many nurse >>practitioners, who do pelvic exams all the time (a woman's health
>>NP)usually do a more comfortable exam, and that is their intention. I
>>did many first pelvics on women who weren't sexually active, and they
>>were very comfortable for them. So, it is possible. >>

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