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My cervix feels swollen and in pain please help

paylee
  • By paylee · Posted March 23, 2013
  • 0 replies
  • I have been hurting since Jan 24. I first was diagnosed with a uti and had to take 3 different medicines. I finally got rid of that but I still feel swollen and have constant pain in my vagina where my ...

Radiotherapy damage

droopydraws
  • By droopydraws · New reply March 13, 2013
  • 10 replies
  • I was diagnosed with Cervical Cancer in 1989, following the birth of my Daughter. I had a Radical Hysterectomy performed at St Barts Hospital in London..After the operation I had Radiotherapy treatment ...

cin3 wot is it

dangel111
  • By dangel111 · New reply February 20, 2013
  • 7 replies
  • i had it done found out that i got cin3 they just realy told me that it is nothing 2 worry about i dont no wot it realy is can some1 help me amd how people feel is it me only feel sceard and alone though ...

Wtf

Abbieangel
  • By Abbieangel · New reply February 15, 2013
  • 6 replies
  • Ok so I have Hpv had the leep or letz done this was 4 years ago. Yesterday I had the call from my doctor I would think most women don't want.... Hi angel it's about your smear.. You have a CIN 3. I am ...

pregnant and not well seeking advice

insight2lite
  • By insight2lite · New reply February 5, 2013
  • 4 replies
  • Hello, I'm 29 pregnant with my 4th child. I was diagnosed 2 years ago with cervical cancer when I was 18 weeks pregnant with my 3rd child. I was dropped by my obgyn before I got out of surgery in my last ...

I am confused

jenzbugrulz1978
  • By jenzbugrulz1978 · New reply January 14, 2013
  • 3 replies
  • Okay. The short story is I was dxd with HPV over 15 years ago. I don't remember which strain, BUT I did have ACGUS within months of breaking up with an old bf in college who gave it to me and 2 of my ...

leep procedure and cauterization

lala1974
  • By lala1974 · New reply January 14, 2013
  • 2 replies
  • I have been experiencing abnormal bleeding with clots up to a half dollar size since October and it is only after my boyfriend and are trying to be intimate or attempt to have intercourse. I start bleeding ...

Vaginal prolapse surgery and HPV experiences please help

JLife
  • By JLife · New reply December 7, 2012
  • 6 replies
  • Someone please tell me your experience. Also I read that in women over 40 or for menopausal women they do a hysterectomy. I hear hyseterectomy causes prolapse. If I do "mesh" surgery what is my likelyhood ...

Vanessa

mamadawg
  • By mamadawg · New reply December 6, 2012
  • 26 replies
  • It is with a very heavy heart that i inform all of you that we have lost yet another "sister" today. I have just received word that Vanessa has passed afte lapsing into a coma this afternoon. For those ...

Just Dx CIN3/HSIL, koilocytosis on colpo

RoManic
  • By RoManic · New reply December 3, 2012
  • 7 replies
  • I'm 44, have 2 boys, 6.5 & 3 in a few weeks, had a miscarriage after 8wks in 2008 w/DNC performed. Youngest came NATURALLY at 41.5 AFTER 3 failed IUIs and 1 failed round of IVF. I know I'm blessed! Husband ...

I had a cone biopsy - by mistake

Elizadoilittle11
  • By Elizadoilittle11 · New reply December 2, 2012
  • 12 replies
  • Last week on the 8th of November I underwent a cold knife cone biopsy. This was due to a pathology report one month earlier that indicated I had CIN111. I have only been recently diagnosed (past 4 years ...

preparing for my second LEEP

melodee714
  • By melodee714 · New reply November 16, 2012
  • 1 reply
  • I had a leep last November and I'm going to.get another colonoscopy today to see if I'm going to have to have another.one. I should've had all this done already but I was in denial because to have another ...

Second laparoscopy for enometriotic cyst, in the same year.

primadona
  • By primadona · New reply November 13, 2012
  • 9 replies
  • Hello everyone, I really need your opinia , please help me , in my fight with the tremendous pain due to endometriosis and cysts. So I had an emergency surgery for endometriosis and cysts in february ...

Pregnancy after cervical cancer

aec100
  • By aec100 · New reply October 18, 2012
  • 14 replies
  • Hello. I am 28 years old and was diagnosed and treated for cervical cancer this past April. I had a radical trachelectomy in order to get rid of the cancer. I had a stict put in during the surgery in ...

Stage 4 cervical cancer

skinsfan
  • By skinsfan · New reply September 4, 2012
  • 11 replies
  • I have not been on here in awhile but would like to update you ladies on what is going on. After taking intense chemo for the last three months, the PETscan came back only to show that the tumors are ...

First Colposcopy and i am TERRIFIED!!!!!

spoiledone77
  • By spoiledone77 · New reply September 4, 2012
  • 26 replies
  • i have to have my first colposcopy on the 20th and i am terrified!!! i am not really terrified of the colposcopy itself, i am terrified of if they have to do a biopsy with it!!! i have NO tolerance for ...

The waiting is the hardest part!!

lovelaughlive
  • By lovelaughlive · New reply August 26, 2012
  • 2 replies
  • Tom Petty was right! I had my colposcopy on Wednesday and now am waiting on the results from my LSIL pap. I was ASCUS last year so obviously things are progressing and I'm so scared/nervous/upset - it's ...

Pregnancy after a radical tracelectomy

MimiBob
  • By MimiBob · New reply July 25, 2012
  • 1 reply
  • Nearly three years ago i had a little boy after a really difficult pregnancy.I had the radical trach 2 years before this and had the most amazing support from my obs and husband but from 16 weeks I gave ...

Internal radiation

Vabene
  • By Vabene · New reply July 22, 2012
  • 7 replies
  • Just finished my 5th and hopefully my last chemo, I need 5 more external radi then will start internal radi. I am not looking forward to this. Any help on getting through this ...

Vaginal Adenocarcinoma

Suva
  • By Suva · New reply July 11, 2012
  • 27 replies
  • Please post here if you have or had vaginal adenocarcinoma. I am Stage IVb. I have just finished 23 external beam radiation, 3 brachy, and 6 weeks chemo, (same therapy as for cervical adeno since there ...

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