I'm going to get cervical cancer

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Have you asked your doctor if she could possibly use a pediatric speculum when doing the exams? I am also very sensitive, and my first couple of paps were horrifically painful. But between finding an doctor who I really like and trust, and finding out that she could use a pediatric speculum, I have a much easier time with paps now. I won't say they're a walk in the park, and I still get some anxiety when I have one coming up, but at least it doesn't feel like someone is jabbing me with a hot knife down there, and I definitely don't need sedation.

^^ I'm not going to lie. Having a smear test is one of the worst experiences you can go through at a doctors. Unless you want to compare it to needles. You lie back, with your legs wide apart, and the nurse uses a probe tool with something a bit like a stapler on the end of it, to take a cervical sample.
I had my second one done this year, they call you about every five years if your over 25 to get it done then three.
My problems have been with recurrent thrush, my hormones are a mixture of anxiety and frustration and flushes, and every now and again, my periods are lasting a long time. About a week to nine days and it takes a fair toll on me.
I have been starting to believe that something is wrong, for a while now, and have decided to get further tests done which test inside the tubes and ovaries. I've not been well though, as I've caught a virus from where I volunteer I suspect, but I can't really postpone this.

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It feels like a Q-Tip, and it lasts about 2 seconds.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but in my opinion and my experience a pap is insignificant.

A Pap Smear is only a screening tool

Just like all those Aspie Tests and all that are screening tools.

All are just preludes to further testing.

Something like an MRI or CAT scan would be more useful. A more thorough examination.

Right. A useful prelude which would, hopefully, lead to further testing.

I dislike getting Pap smears and find them painful. I actually don’t mind other tests as much but everyone is different.

Something to say. Joe90. Tell yourself you are not going to get cancer.
Sedation... I have been knocked out a few months ago for the first time in my life. I had to have a few teeth removed because I pnic and my dentist can't do it due to this. I think I ended up waiting maybe 4 going on almost 5 years as someone kept taking my name off the waiting list? Anyway. Things were getting so bad that my vision was going in one of my eyes due to swelling, so I was classed as urgent. It still took another 6 to 8 months to be seen.
I was ever so nurvous....But ai thought to myself. If I live I live and if I die I die. No big deal. God has me anyway. Also, I did have a fear I would wake up half way... Well. No chance, and if I did I doubt I would have felt a thing, as when they sedated me they also injected me after to freeze my gums and when I came to I was also given a pain killer. I expected to need more painkillers later but I didn't need any.
What was it like to be knocked out. Well. If only I could have been knocked out with all the past dentist work! I remember the surgeon telling me off for what I put on the forms.. And he then started to say what was gojng to happen and if I had questions. I wanted him to hurry up so I could get it over with as to me the explaining would make me worse! Just do it while I am in the mood! It was via an injection in my arm. I hate injections, but this one I did not even feel. They said I would get a strange feeling as the injection got to work... No feeling... Nothing! I was out! I woke up but wasn't ready to open my eyes or sit up. I was listening to two ladies talk. My thoughts were "Why are there two strange ladies in my bedroom?" I couldn't make sense of things, and I spoke and made a small comment like "Ummm. What are you two talking about? The nurse laughed and said I was awake... I was able to open my eyes and it was odd... I was still puzzled. I was on one of those trolley type beds in a different room. The seat thing I was on while being knocked out was narrow and I did have a concern I would fall off... But this bed thing was ok. It was safe...
Oh... You dont eat or drink for six (Or twelve... Can't remember) hours before being knocked out so you don't need to worry too much about things. Also, they tell you to have light meals before not eating. (I was concerned about not drinking as I drink lots of water when nurvous but I managed it ok).
When one is knocked out... Well. I didn't dream at all. Nothing. No time recollection between the needle and waking up, and when waking up my body was just lying there. Just waiting to wake up! So no. No need to worry there either.
I did feel like something had been shobed up my nose so when I was put in a chair and pushed to a recovery room where my Mum and brother was and another man as his wife had not long been pushed in about 5 to 10 minutes after... I asked the nurse if I had had a tube up my nose. She said she didn't think so. She would ask. She asked and no. I hadn't. I said "It feels like someone has shoved their finger up my nose or something!" With that this other lady who was recovering heard me say that and she had the giggles. She was closer to my Mums age. Turns out it was the injection to freeze things when I came to that I was feeling.
So there is no need to panic or worry.

Sorry. I put too much information. Shall I delete some of it? Done!