Haven't posted for a while (BTW I just completed my Masters in Social Work in Canada for those who know of me from earlier posts - yay!). But had a query about the pap test and menopause.
I've never had any issues with painful pap tests previously - but today I had a very painful experience and I wondered afterwards whether it had anything to do with the menopause? Just curious as I googled a moment ago and saw others had had this experience and various factors were attributed to it - including thinning of the vaginal lining?
It wasn't too painful initially when the nurse practitioner inserted the thing in - but then it seemed to go very high up into me and that was very painful and then when she started to clip for samples, it was excruciating!
I'm conscientious about going for tests but after this latest one, I'm not looking forward to the next one! So just wondered what people who've experienced painful tests have done for subsequent tests that might help?
Thanks!