You should wear clothes that are easy to take off. Like a skirt with sandals or jeans and flip flops. The nurse will give you a hospital-like gown to put on. You will be asked to remove your underwear and pants/skirt and lie on a table. She will look and feel of your external vaginal area (such as the labia) and feel of your uterus on the outside. She will then insert a speculum (metal object that will open your vaginal canal)into your vagina (usually after a lubrication is applied and look at your cervix and take a swab of your cervix. It is usually not painful, just uncomfortable.
A pap smear is taking a sample of cells from your cervix to make sure you are healthy.
You will need to lay down on the exam table with your feet up, the doctor will use a speculum to open your vagina and then use a little tool that looks like a pipe cleaner to scrape a few cells from your cervix.
It's a little like getting your throat swabbed. It's usually uncomfortable but not painful and it's over pretty quickly.
Just be clean and go to a gyno.
You don't do a pap smear at home.
A pap smear is a cytological test. It is not a chemical test.
A pap smear is a screening test for cervical cancer.
A pap smear can't detect pregnancy. A pregnancy test is required for that purpose.
A pap smear test won't prevent pregnancy.
Yes, lubricants can affect a pap smear.
There is no "pap smear urine test." A urine test may be done at the time of the pap smear to detect other conditions. Talk with your heatlh care provider to find out what tests were done during your exam.
Papanicolaou test also known as pap smear test
A pap smear is a screening test for cervical cancer. It is a normal part of prenatal care.
A pap smear is a screening test for cancer and precancerous changes of the cervix. An abnormal test result points out the need for additional testing.
It often is called a "Pap smear."
yes get pregnant if pep smear test positive
A pap does not affect the accuracy of a pregnancy test.