You may have heard that a person’s Pap smear should be painless. It should be done at the clinic. It should be done by a trained medical professional. And it should be done when it is just a little uncomfortable. But it’s not. A painless pap smear is a lie.
No, it’s not. You’ll hear it again in the next episode.
If you have no idea what the hell this means, read the next bit.
Painless pap smears are the very worst thing ever. Pain, discomfort, and embarrassment all exist when a pap smear is done in a doctor’s office. Some people just don’t want to know the truth. They’ll even lie if it won’t break their heart. In actuality, a doctor’s office is not that different from a doctor’s kitchen.
The truth is if someone has an STD, and wants to keep it a secret, that is the worst thing ever. Pap smears are even worse than a STD because the doctor is lying to you.
In the video above, doctors tell Joe, a young man with an STD and a history of being a lying bastard, that he is going to get his pap smear at the same time and that he wont need to be in pain during it because he will be numb. This is not true. After the doctor tells Joe this, Joe, a man who has been to doctors offices before, takes off his shirt and begins to get his pap smear.
The worst thing you can do when it comes to pap smears is to be told that you are going to be in pain. Pap smears don’t have to be painful. Some of the more common ones like the one above are not painful at all. You can have a painless pap smear. The doctor will lie to you and say that you will need to be in pain, but that is not what the actual pain is.
Another thing that is going on here is that we’ve all been told that pap smears are uncomfortable, but they are actually not. The discomfort is in the fact that the doctor has told us that we are going to be in pain, but the pain is that our pap smear is actually going to hurt. Pain is what it is, and the pain is normal.
I think the discomfort of a pap smear is very real, but the discomfort is not actually painful. So if you are asked if you are going to be in pain during this procedure, you should be able to answer, “no.” We get a pap smear at least once per year at our family practice, and the pain is not really that bad, especially if you are in the right frame of mind and have a good doctor.
After the first shot, the pain is more of a dull ache, not much more, and then it doesn’t go away that fast. But if you are asked if you are going to be in any pain during the pap smear, then it’s a no. The pain is not really that bad, and it doesn’t really last very long. It’s better to be asked about the pain and not feel pressured or embarrassed for not being honest.