Pap smears!

[meow]

I'm so sorry you were in pain after your pap smear! That's not cool and shouldn't happen

I agree with the studies you've cited and I've made the decision at this point to have smears no more often than every 3 years. I've never had dodgy results so far so I don't want to aggravate the issue by poking something that could be better served being left alone.

[HotI]

I also looked into it a couple years back, and was able to give up the guilt in not having one (for now). it didn't go down well on BB and so i shut up about it, so thank you for posting your research.