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judecorpI think they should give out little stickers to wear that say, "Be nice to me, I had a gynecological exam today."
Actually, after four years of dread, it wasn't bad at all. I highly recommend this doctor (Pamela Dull at Rardin Family Practice - OSU). Her nurse came and asked all kinds of screening questions about whether I have smoke detectors in my apartment and whether I wear seatbelts. She asked if I was sexually active and when I said yes, she grilled me about why I wasn't using birth control. "So you don't /care/ if you get pregnant?" It was the way she said it, I don't know, assumptive, bleh. I said, "I'm a lesbian," and she wrote 'gay' on her big form under the part that I'm a nonsmoker who uses seatbelts. Whee. Dr. Dull (real name, hee!) was much more nonchalant about the whole birth control thing, and agreed that lesbianism was an incredibly effective method. I felt very comfortable with her. We even went into my previous experience with birth control, and how I will never ever ever ever take it again (ever), and she alleviated some of my fears (from previous doctors) that if I didn't have regular periods, I would get intrauterine cancer. She said that as long as I bleed twice a year, I'm set. If I don't, she can make me bleed twice a year. No problem.
So yeah. I liked her. I even let them take whole big bunches of blood to test for silly things like gonorrhea and chlamydia and cholesterol and my hormones and all of that. But I got the Big Icky Exam out of the way, and for that, I'm all kinds of proud of myself.
Actually, after four years of dread, it wasn't bad at all. I highly recommend this doctor (Pamela Dull at Rardin Family Practice - OSU). Her nurse came and asked all kinds of screening questions about whether I have smoke detectors in my apartment and whether I wear seatbelts. She asked if I was sexually active and when I said yes, she grilled me about why I wasn't using birth control. "So you don't /care/ if you get pregnant?" It was the way she said it, I don't know, assumptive, bleh. I said, "I'm a lesbian," and she wrote 'gay' on her big form under the part that I'm a nonsmoker who uses seatbelts. Whee. Dr. Dull (real name, hee!) was much more nonchalant about the whole birth control thing, and agreed that lesbianism was an incredibly effective method. I felt very comfortable with her. We even went into my previous experience with birth control, and how I will never ever ever ever take it again (ever), and she alleviated some of my fears (from previous doctors) that if I didn't have regular periods, I would get intrauterine cancer. She said that as long as I bleed twice a year, I'm set. If I don't, she can make me bleed twice a year. No problem.
So yeah. I liked her. I even let them take whole big bunches of blood to test for silly things like gonorrhea and chlamydia and cholesterol and my hormones and all of that. But I got the Big Icky Exam out of the way, and for that, I'm all kinds of proud of myself.
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Date: 2002-11-26 11:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-26 01:04 pm (UTC)Bleh!
I will tell you, though, that it's /really/ nice to be able to have sex whenever I want to, without any thought about birth control. And it's also nice to know that even though my period is crazy irregular, I never have to worry that "maybe this time..." Yay!
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Date: 2002-11-26 01:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-26 02:45 pm (UTC)