I strongly urge women to get a pelvic by 18 even if they're not sexually active, because my best friend went in for her first at that age and had an ovarian cyst the size of a grapefruit. She ended up losing an ovary. Stuff can happen in the goolie even if no actual stuff has yet happened in the goolie.
Also, virgins and/or people who always find it painful should ask for the pediatric speculum. It makes it a little harder to do a pap, but it's a good test of whether your doctor is considerate - if you ask for pediatric and they refuse, say, "well, I'll find someone else then." Signed, was seen by the world's best midwives at the University health clinic, and has high standards for gyno care.
MY health insurance finally kicked in; I have to schedule a gyno, but I'm going schedule it for after the holidays, but before I go back to school. I have to go to the dentist, too.
All of my gynos have been women, including the scary first one at the university health clinic, where she was about 70 years old and had long, scary red nails.
my pupils are dilated. stoooopid pupils.
Did an eye Dr. just put drops in them?
I couldn't read for several hours the last time I had both my pupils dilated.
I was fourteen(Menstrual wackiness) and completely unprepared for anything to make that journey just yet. It was a bad experience. but the Period from Hell had me whacked out too, so...
Why do they have to call it a pediatric speculum? Why can't they come in sizes like "Wee-wee", "Hoo-hah", "Goolie", and "Has had 6 15 pound babies"?
Did an eye Dr. just put drops in them?
he certainly did. And how!
It's been to long since I went to a gyno, I need to get on that soon.
ION, the Conference of the Doomed is underway. It remains to be seen how many people actually made it in. One of those who didn't - our CEO. Stuck in the airport in Hartford all night. Also, apparently his mother-in-law died last night. I'm going to have to start keeping a chart of the casualties this weekend, for sure.
Now I wonder if I am Hoo-hah or Goolie sized.
How does one tell?
All three of my gynos have been women. Two of them, including my current doctor, were terrific. The one I went to at Planned Parenthood so I could get my BC pills was awful. I went home and cried after dealing with her. Unfortunately, I didn't know that I had a right to call up PP and say her treatment of me was unacceptable. If, today, someone had (potential squick font) kept me waiting for two hours in a cold room, wearing nothing but a piece of paper that didn't even go around me, snarled at me when I said "owch" during the pap smear, told me not to whine since there weren't any nerves up there anyway, and then sent me on my way with a prescription and no info on how I'd get my pap smear test results or even what they were for? Head. On. A. Platter.
How does one tell?
Same way with pants. You try on the pair you know are going to be too big so that when you fit in the smaller size, you feel better.
