yearly checkups

I go for yearly checkups. But not physicals. I go for my mammogram and pap smear. As a Certified Mastectomy fitter, I met many women who did or did not go for yearly exams. I can tell you some scarey stories.

I don't go in for regular check ups, mostly because I've always felt healthy. Let's face it -- we all know how to keep healthy... eat well,exercise, get enough rest, blah, blah, blah. Whether or not we DO those things is another matter!

I go for a yearly check up because I have to in order to get my birth control. If I could get away with buying the pill OTC I wouldn't go every year.

I go in every 3-4 years or when I am really sick. I don't have heatlh insurance from work yet so I try to go in as few times as I can

Yes I do go for my check-ups regularly. I actually go to the Doctor more often than once a year due to some medical conditions, but every year have all those annual blood tests, ECG etc. I am not sure that Doctors know everything but they know more than I do. Luckily our Doctor listens to me when I say something is "not quite right" and tell him why I think that and he takes it from there which is good as far as I am concerned. Sometimes a medical condition can go undetected certainly, despite regular check-ups. However, I feel that if anything does come up that it shouldn't be too far advanced (hopefully) because of these regular checkups.

I get an annual exam at the clinic, but only because they won't give me my Depo shots without it.

I used to go for chekups, but I haven't done it for a long time. I'm glad I'm not missing anything.