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Hello.

Welcome back to my channel.

Your virtual ticket to Japan Day.

We're going to be talking about going to the gynecologist in Japan, period.

Contraceptives, STDs.

I'm sure a lot of women I want to know what it's like to go to the gynecologist in Japan.

I am not, like, afraid to go to the gynecologist told myself.

You know, their doctors, they know what they're doing.

They've been doing this for years.

They've seen so many vaginas in their life.

What?

What's going?

What's the worst that can happen?

So I've had more good experiences and bad experiences in Japan.

I am still trying out some doctors here in Tokyo, Nice toe to get a second opinion and to talk to other doctors into, you know, see which one you feel really good about.

Just going toe.

One isn't always gonna cut it for me.

And if you guys want to know, um, anything about gynecologists, I will link all of the ones that I think that are good down below.

I haven't gone to some of them, but I've heard good things.

So I will link that down below and my other video about doctors.

Ah, couple that years ago I forgot toe link, some of the clinics, the primary care clinics and all that stuff.

So I like that in description as well.

So you guys can go back and check for just General jock general doctors.

I can't speak.

There's so much to talk about.

You guys all right, Going to the gynecologist.

I'm going to kind of tie in my experience and what's gonna happen when you do go to a gynecologist in Japan.

It is a scary thing when you go to a doctor in another country.

My first experience going to a gynecologist was when I first moved to Japan in the debt program and that was not a bad experience.

I had a of female friend to went with me and I end up getting a yeast infection and that was like my first ever yeast infection.

So I ended up going to a doctor.

He was some old man, like he was super nice.

He was very knowledgeable.

There wasn't anything crazy.

This was an all mori.

So, like there was like one gynecologist gave me medicine and everything was good again.

So that was like the first time I went to a gynecologist.

I was so nervous.

I was breaking out.

My heart was beating.

I was like, Oh my gosh, I don't know what to expect.

I don't know what they want me to do but it was nice to have ah, friend who was Japanese to go with me When I moved to Nagoya, however, I had to look for on English making gynecologist I don't know too many gynecologists in Nagoya.

I had one bad experience there When I went there.

He was just so nasty.

Like he was not nice.

The doctor was just so pushy.

I don't know how to explain it.

And he was the one who told me that PMS is not normal when it comes to having a period which confused the hell out of me because don't we all have cramps and like mood swings and all that stuff before a periods like, I'm pretty sure that's common and normal like and I was like, That's really strained.

I have never heard of any way that didn't have those things, but that was my story.

Going to a really bad doctor.

I was livid when I left.

I don't even remember the name of the doctor.

So I can't really tell you which one it was.

But he did speak English, but yeah, I never went back to him after that.

First, when you do go to a gynecologist, they're going Teoh, ask you, Teoh, take off.

You know everything below the belts and put it in a basket so you will be escorted into a private room and you can take off your clothes, put it in there and then you will be seated on a chair before the doctor comes in.

So it's kind of like an all private thing in the beginning, and then they put a curtain over your face.

So this was the one of the shocking, like culture shocks that I had When I went to the gynecologist, they put a curtain over your face.

A lot of women get really shy about it, or nervous actually like it like I like not having to see the doctor and just getting the procedure.

Don whatever I'm doing and then finished.

Honestly, most clinics are pretty high tech, so everything is very up to date.

Maybe the way they approach things are a little bit different.

But when you do a Pap smear, for example, they can see on a screen like your ovaries.

It's kind of like an altar.

Sounds like you can see everything on the inside because they take pictures of it and videos of it, and then they check to see if there's anything abnormal or what not the Pap smear tests.

The annual tests that you should be getting to check for any cancerous problems or anything like that is so easy.

Like I'm gonna tell you guys, it's literally two seconds in your own.

I've been doing it every single year, and I know a lot of women in Japan who come to live here.

Do not go to the gynecologist.

Please go to the gynecologist.

This is important, Okay, like you have to get checked every year.

It's so important, especially as you get older.

Don't make any excuses.

Don't not go because of fear.

Be brave and go.

The other thing that was really strange at a gynecologist is they don't check for your breasts, so when you go to the clinic.

They're not gonna check for any lumps in your breast.

You have to go to a separate doctor for that.

And they do have English speaking for us doctors, breast clinics, which I haven't been going.

Teoh and I should be going.

Teoh.

Yeah, I was really strange.

Like I was like, aren't you gonna took my boobs?

Because I don't know what they don't do that here.

It's very important to go to another doctor to do that, which is kind of a hassle.

But you could also test for check yourself to see if there's any abnormalities.

And if you feel any kind of love, I think you guys should definitely go right after they do the Pap smear or whatever you need to get done.

You get escorted Teoh the doctor's office and he tells you what he's seen or if the test was okay and sometimes we'll send you, you know, the results in the mail or whatever.

So it was very simple and very easy to get through no issues.

And I've had some pretty good doctors who have listened to me.

Also One last thing I didn't mention when you go to the gynecologist.

Do not bring your boyfriend.

Usually they don't allow men into ladies clinics and hospitals.

They do.

But ladies clinics know.

So just remember that if you are going to bring someone, bring somebody that's female moving on to contraceptives.

Birth control is not really thing in Japan.

Just gonna tell you that a lot of people just don't do it, okay?

If they do it, they use condoms.

And condoms here are not a one size fits all is honestly like if you're coming from a Western country with your husband or your boyfriend or whatever, bring condoms because most of the time they're not.

I'm not saying that every guy has a small you know what, but it is very hard to find larger sizes here.

A lot of my male friends from America have had such a hard time finding condoms that work.

So it's good.

Teoh, bring some order.

Some somehow online contraceptives like birth control.

There's literally only six choices for you really have to test them out before you figure out which one fits you well.

Also, birth control here is extremely expensive.

It's about 3000 yen a months which is $30 for one month, really sucks.

Because if I want to get three months, it's like 9000 yen to, like, $100 every three months.

Birth control There are only, like, six kinds.

I'm going to go through some of them for you.

One is marvel on Marvel on.

I'm gonna tell you for me was awful, Awful, awful, Awful, awful, awful.

So on so many levels That pill made me insane.

I felt like I was bipolar.

That's what it felt like.

My my mind.

I felt like I was going and saying it cleared my skin completely.

I had no period symptoms, but my move I couldn't cave.

Explain how I felt like I felt like I was two different people and I didn't know it was that for such a long time.

I didn't know why I was being so moody until I figured out like changing my pill.

All of it went away like I changed my pill to something called trike Will our tranquil air.

And this is what I have now just like a lower dose it This has been really good for me.

I've been taking the pill only because I have ovarian cysts.

I've had some pretty brutal periods in the past.

That's why on the pill, mostly you can get an I u D and an I E.

D is something that goes, I think, is it in your arm?

Or maybe that's an eye us something that gets put into your body as, like, plastic.

And these air like the safest.

I think a lot of my friends have this and it last for, like, 10 years or something so you can get these only of one clinic that I found, which I will link down below.

And the doctor graduated from Michigan State University, which is where I graduated from, so I kind of want to see her and see what she talked.

Thinks the cost of getting it is so expensive.

It's like literally $1000 to like 600 to $1000 to get these, but it's worth it because I spent 9000 yen every three months on this pill, you can just use condoms that's honestly like the best way instead of harming your body.

I think that's like the best way to go is just condoms.

Some clinics.

Before you get birth control, you have to get a blood test every time and get a new pack, which really sex, or every time you go to the doctor, you have to get a blood test, which was so annoying that was one of the clinics that I had to endure was a blood test every single time.

I needed new packs and it was so annoying.

But it is a good thing because they check to see if everything's working.

Collect correctly, because some birth controls can cause blood clots that problems inside your body, which is something that could be the culprit of things that are happening to me now, just way in your options before you get these things done because you don't know what it's gonna do to you long term anyway, you might have to get blood tested.

Not all clinics do this, which is Thank God.

I go to a clinic called K Ladies Clinic and it's in Shinjuku.

It's walk in base.

There's no appointments.

Very quick, very easy to get in.

The doctor seems to explain things to me very, very well, and I really like him so, and you can email him about any questions that you have.

He's fluent in English.

He's easily.

He's easy to access.

And, yeah, I enjoyed the clinic morning after pill.

You cannot just go into a store and get the morning after pill, which is a very hectic process.

So if you do mess up, you need to go first thing in the morning to get it at the clinic.

And luckily enough, this clinic that I go to currently does have it.

It is expensive, A F.

It is not like $50.

It's not $30.

It's 200 freakin dollars just to get the pill.

It's so annoying.

They do have it.

You do have to go to the clinic.

The clinic I go to like I said, is walk in.

So if you do need it, I will like that down below STD tests.

They do have STD tests, and I go to a primary care doctor to get STD testing, and they do have it at an international.

It's called like international Tokyo Clinic, and it's in Shimba.

She I think, and they are amazing.

I just found them recently and they do everything.

The allergy testing the do blood testing.

They do physicals.

They do, uh, see you testing to do everything.

Even if you're traveling like they do.

If you're traveling in Japan, go to this clinic.

I don't know how expensive it is without insurance.

Japanese insurance.

I don't know if they take any other insurance you don't wanna call head.

They speak English fluently.

Everybody there.

They treated me like family.

Like I really, really, really like this doctor.

So I highly recommend them.

They do STD testing all of them.

Um, I will link that down below, getting your period in Japan, just going to say there's literally two brands of tampons.

So if you're looking for tampons, you have to choose between one of the tampon brands that they have, and it sucks, but, you know, it gets the job done.

I never really had a problem with it.

The only problem that I have with it is how expensive it is.

It's like $10 for one box of tampons.

It's ridiculous.

So pads, literally.

I'm shocked.

Pads are like built for giants.

I don't know why I think it's to have, like, extra coverage or something, but I'm like Who?