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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 08:42 PM Original message |
First they came for the mammogram...now the Pap Smear? |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
1. You need to read past the headlines. The reason to delay the PAP |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 08:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Are we sure that's correct? I'm sorry, but too often lately I lately assume I'm being |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 08:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. You are being lied to. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:04 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Don't forget, those are the same experts that told everyone to get |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:11 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. They aren't the SAME people |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 08:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Actually I did read past the headlines |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
2. It leaves me breathless that they are willing to take risks with womens' health |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:14 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. Yet like everything on DU these days |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
4. PAP smears can be done at 18 and at every year. HPV is rife. |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 08:53 PM Response to Original message |
7. I saw an ad last night on TV for some wellness center that suggested Pap smears as Christmas gifts! |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:54 PM Response to Reply #7 |
25. If you don't have insurance, that's a good gift |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
8. Remember a year or so back when women were told to skip the hormone replacement therapy |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:09 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. We disagree |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:22 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Here's some interesting reading from 2002 - |
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Thickasabrick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:35 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Thank you for all that great info in your posts. What do you think |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:50 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. I haven't seen those studies so I can't judge. Who knows? My mother just |
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Thickasabrick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 10:24 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Oh - hope your Mom is ok! Here is an article that touches on what |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
13. I'm with you, Horse with No Name. I almost believe that too many |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 10:53 PM Response to Reply #13 |
31. Wait - are you advancing the proposition that somewhere "they " |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:15 PM Response to Original message |
14. These are guidelines, not laws |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:21 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Bullshit. |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:46 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Adopted by who? |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:48 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. YOu are the one who is misinformed |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:59 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. bullshit yourself. they're adopted by practice groups & advisory boards, |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 10:52 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. But if the "experts" are right, why would anyone want more than standard |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 01:40 AM Response to Reply #30 |
36. i've not seen any body of research demonstrating increased survival with fewer paps. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:30 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Who pays the doctors to have the PTs tested? nt |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:43 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Uh....do you really have no idea how American health care works? |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:26 PM Response to Original message |
17. BTW - any woman reading this thread should sign up with the Army of Love - |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:53 PM Response to Original message |
24. Didn't they start talking about reducing the niumber of paps years ago? |
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ohheckyeah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 10:30 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Yes. At one time it was suggested that every 2 |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 10:32 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. But I think that was after having 2 or 3 annual pap smears that were normal (n/t) |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 11:06 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Ahh that makes sense |
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ohheckyeah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 11:24 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. Yes, I think you are correct. n/t |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 11:08 PM Response to Reply #24 |
33. I believe it's every 3 years, unless you've had an abnormal pap or cancer; then it's annually |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 11:16 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. I've had a biopsy and did the 3 month/6 month regiment for a while |
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