Lexica- did you ever pass your pap smear exam?

Haven't read the thread you refer to but it sounds similar to a Pap smear I had once...the nurse could not find my cervix! I remember saying something like "it was definitely there when I left home", this was right before my toddler who I had had to bring with me opened the door to the corridor outside with people walking along it...!

Apparently my cervix was "round a corner", this has been useful info to share with nurses since then but was a bit weird to hear at the time.

I saw a post mentioning this a couple of days ago. I responded on there that they never have found it. I was tempted to put a picture of a cervix with "Missing" over it like the ones of missing people on the milk cartons and use it as my Avatar on here.   But, I looked up some photos of a cervix and let me just say that a cervix isn't very photogenic.      I decided against it.  Besides, I like my puppy's picture.

Rather than linking you to the post from a couple of days ago, I copied what I said there and pasted it here:
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I had forgotten all about that! And they never did find it either. I went back to the obgyn and she "thought" she had it, but when the results came back, no cervix tissue.

The next time I got the notice that I was due, I made the appointment with the obgyn again, only this time, a different one. She dug around for about 15 minutes too. I was waiting for her to get her spelunking gear out. She tried three different spreading gadgets, and made a valiant effort. She took a stab at what she hoped was the cervix and again, nope. The results came back as no cervix tissue. Again. So now I'm three for three.

So before I go again, they want me to go have a scan done so they know where that sucker is. I hope with a scan acting as the treasure map, they can find it next time.


ETA: I just thought of something. If she can find it after looking at the scan, I'm going to ask her to tie something onto the edge of it, like a leash, so that I won't have to go for a scan each time. She can just locate the leash and haul that thing forward a bit. Or maybe install dog tags so it jingles and she can locate it by sound? GPS tag? I don't want to keep going like this for the rest of my life. Or wait, is there an age where we don't have to get a pap anymore?

You laugh about tying something to your cervix. But the Dr had to do that to me when I was doing IVF. Because of the twist and turns going on in my uterus, the Dr put a stitch in my cervix. He left a long string. He tugged it to straighten everything out to implant eggs. It hurt like hell. So I hope they don't have to do that to yours.

Ouch!  I was half joking, but yours sounds too painful.  Was it worth it?  Do you have a little one for all your trouble?  I hope so!  

It did work. And I have a sweet little girl. She was worth all the pain and humiliation.

Well if you don't have a cervix! surely you CAN'T have a pap anymore.

I can't imagine being pregnant at 69 or 5. But I'm happy my cervix took one for the team. I got this pretty thing. That bottom right photo captures the face she makes when she smells something and says "yum yum".

Missed the thread about your missing cervix! My ob/gyn couldn't find my ovaries after my hysterectomy (we opted to leave them in). After 2 ultrasounds, we found that one was almost gone/shrunk and the other one kept hiding. At this point, I think they're both gone.

Good question about getting checked via an ob/gyn!! I had a hysterectomy in 2012 (cervix & uterus removal), and I keep asking my primary doc if I need to go back and get checked (I "fired" the ob/gyn). She said it's not really necessary, but I remember hearing that it was. My mom still goes (at age 78!) and I remember that family members upwards of age 60 still went........ Curious to read any responses here.

Did Melissa, our pea obgyn make it to the new board?

Ya melissa is here.  Somewhere.  But I don't think her new pea name is Oh Pea Gyn.