Colposcopy. That hurt. There are advantages to having a female goolie doc, because she looked up at me with the tears coming out of my eyes and said, "I know, I had one of these a couple of months ago, hang in there."

Yep. Colposcopy is not fun.

I donwanna think about girly bits and procedures any more than that.

Dude, having an IUD inserted was so (briefly yet holycrapsharply) painful that I will NEVER complain about a PAP test again.

Truer statement, mang....

I am like Vortex. My OBs have figured out pretty quickly to use a much smaller speculum on me. Before childbirth, one of my GYNs actually used a child-sized one. Which was good for me, but also made me sad because there are very few good reasons to need such a thing as a child-sized speculum.

Edited because a "much speculum" is not the same thing as a "much smaller" speculum. Must learn to proof before posting.

Jones New York jacket priced at $239.00 for TWELVE DOLLARS. It's a little big, but what's a waist nip when the jacket was TWELVE DOLLARS.

Ooooh. Nice.

Amazon is recommending Sidney Poitier's autobiography, based on the fact that I ordered "YOU: On A Diet." Interesting.

Also, I've been looking though the recipes in "Vegan With a Vengeance," which I also just bought. It's pretty interesting as vegan cookbooks go. The desserts take up about a quarter of the book, and there's no a single salad. Looks like fun. I have a feeling I might be bringing a lot of vegan baked goods into the office in the next few weeks.

Amazon is recommending Sidney Poitier's autobiography, based on the fact that I ordered "YOU: On A Diet." Interesting.

Probably because both books have been featured on Oprah, although Amazon recommendations are often on the bad crack.

Hysterectomy = no more pap smears. This is a definite benefit.

Hysterectomy = no more pap smears. This is a definite benefit.

The weirdest thing is that my new GYN up here actually told me at my last checkup that I probably didn't need them anymore, because I had been sexually monogamous for more than twenty years, and then cited all the evidence about cervical cancer and the human papilloma (I have no idea if I spelled that right) virus and it being sexually transmitted, blah blah.

And then he did a pap smear anyway.

Dude, having an IUD inserted was so (briefly yet holycrapsharply) painful that I will NEVER complain about a PAP test again.

Steph, did sounds get metallic on you?

You know, I don't know. Because my problem is that I so totally go into my pain that everything else recedes. I remember gasping at the pain (though that might have been at the measuring of my uterus, not the IUD insertion), and then being surprised (and ANNOYED) that my OB/GYN seemed surprised that I was experiencing pain. But mostly I just remember sharp, whitehot pain.

You guys aren't selling the IUD very well. ijs.

It sounds weird, but I can deal much better with big, whole muscle pain (at least that's the way I think of it) like childbirth, but sharp, whitehot pain, like a toothache, or what you're describing? That makes me want to run screaming. Far, far away.