OK, I was just thinking today (I think I may have the dreaded thrush) Why is it that when you use the applicator you should only insert it half way, but a doc can put a great big cold metal speculum up there and scrap your cervix during a pap smear?

Surely if either were going to cause a problem it would be the pap smear not the applicator, I mean it's not really that big, and it doesn't touch the cervix like a pap does.

Any views