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Whether you’re heading to a private specialist or just seeing your primary doctor to get referrals for specific testing, you absolutely have to bring her most recent Pap smear results—it's non-negotiable. That one piece of paper dictates everything. It determines whether the insurance provider covers the necessary referrals or if a private clinic will even bother with things like swabs or colposcopy. Basically, the treatment plan hinges entirely on those results. You need to go with her to pick up the findings because, let's be honest, gynecologists insist on this for a reason: if there’s an issue, you both have to undergo treatment together to actually fix the problem!
Honestly, they didn't give me any specific info either, so I was just wandering around aimlessly—the staff at the clinic failed to mention which building on Mayo Clinic I actually needed to head toward. If she had just told me it was the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, I would have found the place in a heartbeat.
All I'm saying is that I personally dropped it off there, and everything I wrote above was pulled directly from the lab results—just as a heads-up for anyone else out there who doesn't know the exact address.
So, I just got my lab results back and they list the following details
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Microbiology Department
Mayo Clinic
tel- 4696 316
The gynecologist mentioned she'll be taking the swabs this Wednesday.
Here is my experience—my sister, who works at the student health clinic, called me to say my Pap smear came back as CIN 1 and I needed to come in for swabs. When I finally got there, the gynecologist took them—she had those little test tubes ready—but once she was finished, she just asked if I’d be dropping them off at the Arlington Avenue lab immediately. I was standing there completely bewildered, holding four test tubes in my glove, thinking, "Wait, what?" Honestly, thank God my boyfriend happened to be with me; otherwise, I would have totally lost it. We just grabbed everything and sped off in the car. My referral specifically noted swabs and HPV typing underlined because the Pap results showed changes linked to HPV. The results were actually ready in seven days, and I didn't have to pay a dime—that was back in June of this year. They ran PCR tests for HPV, Chlamydia, bacteriology, plus Ureaplasma and Mycoplasma—everything came back negative except for the high-risk HPV