How enduring use of 150-year-old speculum puts women off smear tests #cervicalcheck #pain independent.co.uk/life-style/wom…
I was invited by @NHSEngland for routine #cervicalscreening and despite the efforts of my practice #nurse, even the smallest available #speculum caused me greatest amount of #pain and we had to stop the #procedure within a minute after insertion.
I have been in pain for 9hrs now. 😑 No test designed for #screening #population should be thus. It is hardly conducive for #uptake. Why has #gynaecology stuck with this 'instrument of torture', despite advances in #medicalinstrumentation? Could it be #apathy? @MamaDoctorJones
This was my first #cervicalcheck 😔 Apparently it is bad for everyone but I wonder if anyone has paused to ask whether it should be so. Why isn't a physical examination performed before? Why can't local anaesthetic gels be used to numb the area before insertion? @MamaDoctorJones
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