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Just wanted to get some feedback here regards my wife. Shes in a state of panic and it doesnt help i work away and wont be back for 2 weeks.
We recently moved (Im forces due out soon so we bought our own place). She had a call from her new GP yesterday saying she was overdue her smear test. She booked one for tomorrow but is now really worried. She thinks she may have one of the symptoms and the fact she was overdue worried her. She always goes when she gets a call in.
Today she rang and asked when her last test was - she was told according to the computer system is was in 2003 !!!! They havent yet got her medical notes from her last GP who we were with for 5 years.
now - Im convinced I recall her going for a smear whilst in our last location. I remember her saying she had to have one - and thinking about it it could have been when she had her last coil fitted in 2008.
She also vividly recalls going for a smear when our son was in his buggy - and he wasnt bourne until Dec 2005. She thinkgs this was actually done in 2007 at a surgery on an RAF camp.
So a few Questions arrive.
1. Would she generally have had a smear when having a coil fitted (the 2003 test was when she had one fitted). If so could this have been missed from the database (we we were in Northern Ireland at the time).
2. Could the test she remembers have been missed off the database if it was through an RAF medical center rather than a GP.
3. Could the database be wrong - ie could here actual test dates be on her paper file but not recorded on the database.
4. If the last record on the database was a 2003 test, how come its only being highlighted now? Could the last GPs she was at for 5 years have missed this?
For the record shes 35 now. Shes really worried - convinced herself she has cancer and its late state. She has had some post intercourse bleeding over the last 6 months (though not regularly) which is the main cause of her panic.
Shes not in a fit state to think straight at present and its killing me not being able to be there for her. im convinced she has had at least one test since 2003 - I dont think we can BOTH be wrong in our memories (even if my memory if from the 2007 test, or hers from when in NI). i also cant see how a GPs missed a 9 year gap in tests. Im assuming she is due one about now, but her paper file shows she had in 2006/7 and 2009 - which is why shes not been called until now.
So - anyone shed any light on any of the possibilities here? obviously she needs the test whatever happened - but If I cab reasure here that the database is wrong because a test in NI, or at an RAF centre may have gone unrecorded - or that her GP would be checking manually, or a routing test would have been done when the coil was fitted etc etc etc.
Hi Paul - there is no point in her getting herself in a state until she gets to the clinic tomorrow. She should discuss her anxiety with the clinic staff, who, hopefully, will help to put her mind at rest, and get her settled into a regular smear test routine. It's pointless trying to remember dates and times - as you say, notes from other practices may well not have caught up with you yet.
I was in the WRNS in the 70's, then married a sailor, so was in the military system for 25+ years. None of our military records from various bases, have ever 'kept up' with us!! I have tried to keep a diary of various trips/treatments over the years. I have had the occasional smear, but not on a regular basis, until 1998, when we finally settled in one place, and have had 2 since then. My daughter, now 23, has them annually, as she had problems as a teenager, and they are monitoring her for 10 years.
As I said before, there is nothing she can do until she sees the staff tomorrow. I hope they are as good as the team we have at our medical practice!
Thanks
That is what I keep telling her. Regardless when her last test was, it wont effect the results of the next. ive told her to tell them about her worries, and ask about the records (and tell them she sure she has had at least one since then). Hopefully they can put her mind at ease.
Doesnt help shes in Nottingham and Im in Belfast, and Ive had long tearfully, panicy phone calls yesterday and today. I just want to put an arm round her.
I must say, after looking at symptoms lists she only has the bleeding. She does get the odd pain in her legs, but theres no swelling and its more muscular than in the bone. i think shes just thinking worse case, and the timeframe since the last recorded test has set it off.
Tomorrows the test, and while she wont get results for a couple of weeks, hopefully they can talk her through things and she will stop worrying.
And another thing to remember is that when you move GP's the new one always seems keep to call you in for jabs and tests, even before they know your history. Anyone would think they get paid for each jab and test they can perform.... 
All Love and Reiki Hugs