Cervical smear test letters. UPDATE post 30: Good news.
I have now received a total of four cervical smear test letters in the past 8 months. I don't want to have one. If I continue to ignore them and just chuck them in the recycling, will they eventually stop sending them? Or do I need to get the bravery to call my GP surgery to ask them to ask the central people to stop sending them? My support worker won't help me with this as it would go against her principles as a support worker apparently.
Last edited by Steel Maiden : 20-01-2015 at 10:43 PM.
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Ok can I fax my GP surgery a letter (as opposed to calling) asking them to stop it for me? If so, how is the best way to word the letter?
PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
Why dont you just continue to throw them in the recycling? That's what I do because I dont want a smear test.
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You posted about this before, and someone said that you will continue to get letters until you reach an age where they don't smear test women any more.
I don't think your local GP surgery is responsible for sending the letters, but writing to them explaining you don't want to receive them might help as they might be able to contact the place that sends them.
Otherwise, as insignificant one said, why can't you keep ignoring them and throwing them away?
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different…
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I'll just keep throwing them away. I just don't want someone calling me saying "why aren't you responding?"
PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
Sorry for repeating posts. Certain areas of my memory aren't very good.
PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
I'll just keep throwing them away. I just don't want someone calling me saying "why aren't you responding?"
I have been throwing them away for years, and nobody has called me. If they did, I would calmly says "I dont want them. I do not wish to discuss my reasons why. Please do not call me again" and either block their number if possible or if they phoned me again I would put down the phone on them.
I have had it queried once by a nurse at the GP's surgery (when I was first registered with my current surgery I had to go for a health check), but I explained that I had very good reasons for not going and there was no way they could change my mind (mine is for SA reasons - I had a full and very reasoned discussion with my SA counsellor on why I could never go for one).
Wannabe CPN : -)
"He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life." - Homer Simpson "I hear those voices that will not be drowned" Sanity is a nasty disease. The world would be a happier place without it. - Rilic
RIP Kat 4th July 1987- 11th June 2013
They aren't that bad and you could have cancer and not know it. I would advise going for one anyway. Nobody likes them but it's a case of having to get them done like blood tests and x rays. Lot of women die from cervical cancer and tests prevent this or help you find out whether you have abnormal cells and it has nothing to do with sexual activity either.
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Cervical cancer has an awful lot to do with sexual activity. Cervical cancer is mostly caused by HPV, which is a sexually transmitted virus. If you've never had sex, you won't have the virus, so you're incredibly unlikely to have cervical cancer. The NHS Choices website has information on this: http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Cervica...t-be-done.aspx
I'd contact them, Oly. On my letters, it had a number to call if you wanted to opt out of the scheme, so I would have thought they'd be open to a fax.
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I think Oly wants advice on how to assert her right to not have a smear test and find a way to stop the letters. Within smear tests there is a HPV test because that is one of the main causes of cervical cancer, and HPV is a sexually transmitted disease.
I would fax the GP a letter. If that does not help, try calling them.
Perhaps say, you have thought about it over a prolonged period and have decided you don't wish to have a smear test. You understand you can request one at any time and that you'd like to stop having the reminder letters being sent to you.
They aren't that bad and you could have cancer and not know it. I would advise going for one anyway. Nobody likes them but it's a case of having to get them done like blood tests and x rays. Lot of women die from cervical cancer and tests prevent this or help you find out whether you have abnormal cells and it has nothing to do with sexual activity either.
You obviously don't know this but Oly has said in the past that she hates being touched by people and she feels that the whole experience would be traumatic for her and as such it is easier for her to not do it.
Smear tests are not mandatory so if you don't want them you don't have to have one, lots of people on this site, myself included can not deal with having a person 'down there'.
I know you were trying to be helpful but I think maybe stating that people can die from not having a smear test is a bit unfair. Yeah maybe so, but no one decides to not havea smear test lightly.
^ The same as Iamcatbug said.
When people say they aren't that bad or along those lines it makes me want to cry I have diff reasons to oly but still I am so traumatised by them it takes me approx 6 months or so to come out of the massive crisis they put me in they really are that bad to some people
I totally sympathise with you oly I dread that letter too but yes I think you can request to have them stopped if thats what you want let us know what happens
"And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back so shake him off."
I was medicated for mine so I was less aware of what was going on. It still wasn't easy, but it enabled me to have it done which I felt was important for me and it minimised the traumatic after effects. Everyone has the right to decide for themselves, and it was incredibly hard choice to make but there are things that help if you can have an open conversation with your doctor.
Sorry I was trying to be helpful. Just ignore the letters because nobody has ever forced me to have one.
It became like a sort of prison. Encased in a silver shell, words so full of bleeding need spilled like drops on dry leaves. And all the while laughter prevailed a long way from here. Nowhere land, nowhere time, nowhere space.
Perhaps say, you have thought about it over a prolonged period and have decided you don't wish to have a smear test. You understand you can request one at any time and that you'd like to stop having the reminder letters being sent to you.
I agree this is good advice on what to put in the letter.
Interestingly when I was looking at GP surgeries in the area my bf has moved to in order to register, on the form it asks you if you want to have cervical smears or not. So it really is down to choice, they can't be forced, and I'm sure a letter explaining your reasons for not having one will be sufficient.
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different…
you once called your brain a hard drive, well say hello to the virus.
Sorry for not posting for a while. The holiday with my mum was hard and made me shut down for a while.
I am due to see my GP soon about migraines so I'll mention it to her about not just "not wanting" but not being mentally able to have a cervical smear.
I've never had sex before.
I realise the risk of not having a cervical smear test, but because I haven't had sex before, as said above, it is highly unlikely I have HPV.
PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
It became like a sort of prison. Encased in a silver shell, words so full of bleeding need spilled like drops on dry leaves. And all the while laughter prevailed a long way from here. Nowhere land, nowhere time, nowhere space.
I have diff reasons to oly but still I am so traumatised by them it takes me approx 6 months or so to come out of the massive crisis they put me in they really are that bad to some people 
