There are lots of reasons for why a cervical screening test can be uncomfortable, however something that people don’t often realise is that tightness in your pelvic floor muscles can account for some of this discomfort.

There are lots of factors that can influence pelvic pain and not all of these require surgery. 

Not everyone who lives with pelvic pain has endometriosis or adenomyosis and in the absence of any other tangible gynaecological factors, people can feel lost as to where to go for help.