That makes more sense to me, that its the speculum. Have you ever been diagnosed with vaginismus? I wonder if they would handle things differently then. I also wonder if you would only get so diagnosed if you had a complaint. Its kinda like, my arm hurts when i do this. Well not if you dont do it except for pap time.

One time i had a petite east indian lady dr who used the tiniest clamshell of a speculum on me, i swear it was at most 2 inches long, and the damn thing bit me. It was like those frog clickers. Then she starts going up in size, maybe half inch at a time? After 3 tries i told her to stop. I was pretty mad, and I am usually waaaay over compliant in drs offices.