Is pain during your first gynecological exam normal?
I went to my first gynecological exam today because I had the signs of a yeast infection. I have never gone before because I’m young and still a virgin. When we got to the part with the speculum it was so painful, I almost started crying, he tried the smaller one and he tried three times but I couldn’t take the pain. I shouldn’t have asked him at the end of the exam if it was normal but I didn’t. So is this normal? Is the pain simply because of the infection? I also feel swollen from using Monistat which was probably the biggest mistake of my life. (Apparently Monistat is awful and hurts a lot more women than cures them.) And I took Monistat before seeing my gyno in hopes of curing myself but it just burned like crazy and made me swollen and I still hurt from using is 5 days ago. Please someone help me.