Thread: Please, Help Me Find My Cervix

I've been diagnosed with Fibroids and they are very large. They make me look 6 or 7 months pregnant but I am not. I do not want surgery and I am researching for other treatment options. Women I know have had surgeries and the fibroids still grew back.

I had to go to the doctor for my annual pap smear and for a couple of years now, the doctor couldn't find my cervix. The Fibroid sits at a certain angle that prevents the cervix from being eaily reached, I guess. One doctor took 40 minutes the other almost about the same. Then everybody gasps and says, "WOW! That's the largest fibroid I've every felt!! Bet you hear that alot!!" Uh, yes, I do, from doctors mostly, and I hear alot from strangers, "So, when are you due?" "A boy or a girl?" or some other pregnancy reference. Then, embarassed and feeling like a monster, I say that I'm not pregnant. I dread summer because, less clothes means more questions like that!!

Anyway, my question is: Is there anyone here who has had a Hide-And-Seek cervix, like me? (Never had this before until I got fibroids) I'm tired of painful doctors pap exams where they dig, probe, push deeper and cause pain and still come up saying they can't find it. Is there an alternate exam I can suggest? I'm beginning to think doctors like going inside me just to have a look around, like an Open House, or a Freak Show at the Circus because they are so amazed at the size of my stomach. The speculum thing is not working, yet the doctors just continue to keep using longer ones and wider ones. I feel like I'm being split open! And still I don't get a pap done. I just get doctors doing the same digging over and over. What can I do??

Thanks, Everyone!

I see this post is old...but ok...wow someone else!!! I had my annual pap smear last week. My test results were normal. (yeah!) But it was a PA (nurse) and she couldn't find my cervix...she call in another PA and I thought "good, obvisouly the other nurse had no experience..." but this PA couldn't find it either!!! They did all that you discribed, bigger speculum, over and over....I was calm...then finally she said "There it is!" and we were done. I did'nt think it affected me too badly until I went to my husbands office, and he asked "why did that take so long?" and I burst into tears at the humilation of it all. He (my husband) was upset and said "what? I can find your cervix, what idiots!" Now I am scared to ever do another pap again. I have no history of Fibroids etc, why can't they find my cervix? I'm sorry to hear about your experience. Thanks for sharing.