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Hard to find cervix during smear

  • 13-08-2014 9:39am
    #1
    ClareP1983
    Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭


    Hi ladies, I just had my smear test done and the nurse had to do it four times. It was so uncomfortable, she said she couldn't see my cervix and got me to get into a different position. At the fourth attempt she found it and wasn't sure she had taken enough of a swab.

    I got my first smear 3 years ago and it's was perfectly normal, first attempt. The results from it were that I had a bacterial vagenous and it cleared up.

    Why would my cervix be hard to find, I am overweight would that have something to do with it? I will be trying for children soon and am just feeling really anxious.

    Thanks all x


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  • #2
    mazdaminx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭mazdaminx


    ClareP1983 wrote: »
    Hi ladies, I just had my smear test done and the nurse had to do it four times. It was so uncomfortable, she said she couldn't see my cervix and got me to get into a different position. At the fourth attempt she found it and wasn't sure she had taken enough of a swab.

    I got my first smear 3 years ago and it's was perfectly normal, first attempt. The results from it were that I had a bacterial vagenous and it cleared up.

    Why would my cervix be hard to find, I am overweight would that have something to do with it? I will be trying for children soon and am just feeling really anxious.

    Thanks all x

    This happened to me the last time. There for ages trying to do it, nearly ten mminutes. But I just had one today and it went smoothly, less than one minute. I really don't know. I think some nurses are better at doing them maybe? Try not to worry.


  • #3
    diveout
    Closed Accounts Posts: 746 ✭✭✭diveout


    Because depending where you are in your cycle, your cervix can be high or low. Yes it moves.... all part of nature's sinister plot.


  • #4
    Frito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Frito


    I think your height's a factor; the taller you are the more likely your cervix sits higher. Also a cervix might tilt naturally.


  • #5
    Thoie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    diveout wrote: »
    Because depending where you are in your cycle, your cervix can be high or low. Yes it moves.... all part of nature's sinister plot.

    Moving cervices (cervixes, cervixen, cervixiiiiii?), ovaries that aren't attached to anything, fallopian tubes that wave around the place aimlessly and can sometimes tie themselves in knots - is anything we learned in Inter Cert biology true and fixed in the right places?

    OP, I find soles of my feet together, then drop the knees out and down, and tilt the pelvis slightly up usually helps the ... smearer (maybe I should have stuck with "medical professional"). It only needs a slight pelvis tilt - no need to re-enact Gangnam style pelvic thrusts at the ... smearer (feck it, I'll stick with it).


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