Well you can always choose not to have one ;) .. but I know what you're saying.

I believe it was fairly recently that reports/articles/research has come out indicating that women only need to have a pap once every 2 or 3 years, rather than every year.

But maybe that's been the case for a while and I only recently heard this...?

Oh please. He's twice her age and was a Hollywood star in the 1970s and 1980s. I'm sure she didn't think she was his first and only.

They keep saying all this stuff can be done at longer-apart intervals and my response is "I'll stick with yearly, thanks." I've gone 2 years without a dental appointment and now I'm in the midst of a root canal. Never again. So you can imagine how I feel about anything down under.

I went 6 years without a cleaning.. end of college, then graduated and didn't have health insurance, then got a job and was traveling all the time (and in all that time I lived in 3 different states) - and suddenly it was more than half a decade later and I realized I really needed to go to the dentist.

Fortunately, I only needed a deep cleaning. It was still pretty terrible, though. As you said, never again.

And I'm definitely still going for a yearly gyno exam.. no point in taking a chance!

Me too! I'm just flabbergasted that anyone would go for it...

TMI on the "not going to the dentist" revelations....;)

Make that three of us. I'd have to hit me a man who blabbed that much. :mad:

The technology has actually changed in the last decade or so (with the introduction of ThinPrep), and with it, the ACOG recommendation for yearly paps.

I didn't think she was. I did, however, wonder how Catherine Zeta Jones would feel about people thinking that she gave it to her husband. Obviously, she didn't want to be considered the source of her husband's cancer:
Barbara Walters: Michael Douglas' Wife Not Source of Virus


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