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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My PCP has never once done a pap smear?  I get them every 3 years at the gyn.  If they're not doing the pap smear they don't even use the speculum anymore.

My mom  had amajor issues caught on a first gyn visit (tumor that could have been an issue).  So she took my sisters and me each when we turned 18.[/quote]

I posted earlier that my friend's daughter died of cervical cancer at the age of 21. By that point, she had it for 3 or 4 years. I can't believe what I'm reading here. This should be common sense that we need to see a gyn after puberty.[/quote]

I’m sorry about your friend’s daughter, but that is freakishly rare. Bowel cancer is also rare in young adults, but happens sometimes. Does that mean they should start giving colonoscopies to teenagers?

The HPV vaccine will likely mar a big difference for the generations able to get it.[/quote]

You're ignoring the fact that the recommendation is to have your first gyn visit between the ages of 12-15. I get colonoscopies at the recommended age too. Not sure what you're trying to accomplish here.[/quote]

So you think internal exams should be standard of care for non-sexually active 12 year olds?! [/quote]
Stop lying. Establishing care with a gynecologist doesn’t mean having an internal exam. It’s smart for girls to learn what respectful responsive care looks like, to have a relationship with a gyn that they can ask questions if for some reason they don’t want to come to you or just want additional information/reassurance. My DD had an emergent situation freshman year of college and ended up needing surgery. I was glad that she didn’t have the additional stress of having that be her first experience with a gynecologist. It was her first internal exam, but she had already had several visits. She had conversations about multiple things including what happens during an internal exam. It was a scary time but much less so than it could have been.

[b]American schools and families do a terrible job teaching girls about their body. Everything is focused on sexual practices and almost nothing on actual health. That’s another good reason to take your DD before there are problems.[/b] [/quote]

I'm the European who responded earlier in the thread and this is so very true. I went for the first time at 15, it did involve an internal exam, but I've had dental visits that were MUCH more uncomfortable. If you teach your daughters that this is just a medical exam and not a right of passage or something you do after the first time you have sex, they'd be much better off.

I wonder if the PP understands that some young girls may hear about their bodies for the very first time during these visits. IT's just lunacy not to do it.[/quote]

I think what you don't understand is that the girls who are "hearing about their bodies for the first time" are never the ones who would be brought to these exams. They are either a) too poor to spend money on what is at heart an informational medical visit or b) their parents have kept information about their bodies from them because they want to keep them ignorant/innocent/etc and thus would never bring them to the doctor for such a visit. America is very different from Europe in this regard.

Essentially what someone said earlier in the thread is true--bringing your daughter to the gyno at a very young age just to "get comfy" with the idea is the purview of extremely privileged, likely liberal, people.[/quote]

But I didn't say that I would bring my daughter just to get comfy. It's a necessary medical exam just like any other. [/quote]

OMG, so is she or isn't she getting a full internal exam? Because if she is, that's very different from what most people are proposing for their 12 year old. [/quote]

You are talking to various people. The recommended age is between 12-15 because that's after the onset of puberty, menses, and all sorts of hormonal changes which affect their reproductive health. Of course, they should conduct the exam! [/quote]

I'm sorry, but subjecting a sexually inactive 12 year old to an internal exam for *gesticulates wildly* reasons is bizarre to me. Also, I don't think that most Europeans are going to the gyno at 15, no. [/quote]

You're a sick troll, a man who has no idea how women's bodies function. The fact that you think that only sexually active teens have a reason to go should have told me all I needed to know. Why are you even discussing women's health since you're a man?[/quote]

Not a man, just a woman who thinks we overmedicalize things and there's no need prior to 21 to go to the gyno if you're not sexually active or having symptoms of a gynecological nature. Waste of time, waste of money. [/quote]

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