“This shouldn’t be painful but may be uncomfortable.”

Beki Osborne Awareness of Pain, Blog, Endometriosis UK, Surviving Pain, Vulval Pain Society

Most women will be familiar with this sentence, usually uttered moments before a women’s health procedure. But what if you do find it painful? Cervical screenings are really important to me because of family medical history, and they offer early identification of abnormal cells before they develop into cervical cancer. But the arrival of the invitation letter to my next …