Health challenges after treatment

Discuss physical challenges that occur six months after treatment and beyond, and help others understand the ongoing dynamic changes caused by radiation to the pelvis and chemotherapy. These chronic and often permanent changes continue to manifest for years after treatment and it can be difficult to understand the changes going on in ones body.

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Radical Trachelectomy & Pregnancy

By jessir · New reply April 12, 2013
1 reply
Hi Everyone, I am so glad to have found this site. I have been reading your posts for awhile but this is my first posting. My background: I had stage 1B cervical cancer. I had a radical trachelectomy ...

Just found out I'm pregnant!

By Nevathadiva · New reply April 10, 2013
7 replies
I just found out on April Fool's Day that I am pregnant. By my calculations I am around 6 weeks. I am very worried since I had a radical trachelectomy with node dissection last May to treat my 1B1 Cervical ...

How long after treatment will my feet continue to be numb?

By Shantasurvivor · New reply April 5, 2013
9 replies
I can't take it anymore. Can someone please offer a solution. My feet really hurt mostly at night ...

Cramping mid-cycle after Cone/LOOP?

By garrisonbest · New reply March 8, 2013
1 reply
I had a cone biopsy and LOOP about 8 months ago. Margins came back clear. Six months later, a PAP showed inflammation but a colpo came back clean. My doctor says everything healed nicely, but I am having ...

Another Bleeding after LEEP Post

By UGAgirl · New reply March 8, 2013
2 replies
I am a 23 year old college student who just had a LEEP procedure 2 weeks ago in which they high-risk cancer causing cells were removed. My story is similar to everyones: slight discharge/bleeding for ...

Pregnancy at 41 or 42 after trachelectomy? Anyone?

By AlmostGrace · New reply February 11, 2013
3 replies
Ladies, I'm so thankful this forum is available to me! I'm 41, never been pregnant or tried to get pregnant and was just diagnosed with 1b1 cervical cancer with a 1.2 cm tumor per the results of a cold ...

Periods that last two weeks after LEEP procedure. Normal?

By meggy40 · New reply February 4, 2013
20 replies
I had the Leep procedure three months ago and ever since my periods have been lasting anywhere from 10-14 days. I start spotting lightly for about five days with brown spotting and then my real period ...

Is this normal? Two week long periods after LEEP Procedure three months ago

By meggy40 · New reply December 31, 2012
4 replies
Hi everyone. I had LEEP August 31, 2012 and ever since my period has changed from a normal 7 day period to 14 days which consist of 7 days of spotting to a full 7 day period. It has stayed this way for ...

Spot bleeding after cervical cancer

By nikibore39 · New reply December 13, 2012
1 reply
I had cervical cancer 3 years ago, went through both treatments. This year had CAT scan and regular doctor's appointments. All was good until last month. I had my first spot bleeding, just one day, three ...

aching legs following pelvic radiation

By toots61 · New reply December 2, 2012
22 replies
I had a radical hysterectomy in dec 2011 and 25 pelvic radiation treatments and 3 brachytherapy. I feel great other than my legs ache so bad and no one has any answers for me. Anyone else experiencing ...

Just a theory, but don't know if there's research to back it up?

By btherese · New reply October 1, 2012
8 replies
I really didn't know which topic to put this in, but here's my question/theory/predicament; if I am battling dysplasia (in a clear period right now after LEEP and Cone), and my spouse/partner is a smoker ...

leg pain

By toots61 · New reply September 28, 2012
10 replies
I had a complete hysterectomy in Dec 2011 and had 25 pelvic raditation treatments and three brachy therapy. I have leg pain in both legs since about two weeks after finishing treatment. No one has any ...

Is this normal????

By So-confused · Posted September 26, 2012
0 replies
I had my leep on July 18, 2012 roughly 2-1/2 months ago. Didn't bleed long. 6 week looked good she said it is healing good. Well I'm still bleeding after sex. Not every time & not a lot anymore just spotting ...

Conceiving after Radical Trachelectomy

By Nevathadiva · New reply September 17, 2012
2 replies
5 months ago I had a radical trachelectomy and had my lymph nodes and cervix removed. I had stage 1B1 adenocarcinoma. My husband and I have begun talking about conceiving and my doctor has given me the ...

3 Weeks Post LEEP

By westermeyer · New reply September 15, 2012
3 replies
It has been 3 weeks since I have had my LEEP done. When I first started having problems was around 2 weeks after I got married. I went to the er because I was in such pain but the er doctor told me that ...

Severe pain after 3 chemo.

By Sibasis · New reply September 15, 2012
1 reply
She has been treatmenting in tata memorial hospita. In near past We had gone to tata hospita. They had given us 3 chemo. As prescribed by doctor. The time gap between two chemo was 21 days. We were wanting ...

To worry or not to worry?!?

By zyzzx · New reply September 9, 2012
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Radical hyster in Oct 2012, 6 weeks of radiation and chemo, ended in Jan 2012. Sluggish recovery and ct, pets, etc all came out clear. First pap a month ago, hpv positive and abnormal pap/cin1. Going ...

MENOPAUSE AT 29

By cecilia001 · New reply August 8, 2012
3 replies
WELL I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CERVICAL CANCER ON SEPT 22 OF 2011. I AM FINISHED WITH MY TREATMENT, CHEMO AND RADIATION AND HAVE PASSED THROUGH MOST OF THE AFTER PAIN. SOME DOCTORS TOLD ME I WOULD GET MY PERIOD ...

hysterectomy

By cum · Posted August 6, 2012
0 replies
I was given the "ok" after my 6 weeks to have sex and i noticed afterwards the semen had a little red discharge and when i wipped myself ther was a brownish discoloration. i didint have a total hysterectomy ...

Enbrel

By bhunny · New reply July 7, 2012
4 replies
I had LGSIL last year, met my husband, and now have CIN 3. My husband has been on Enbrel for a couple of years. Does anyone know if it's more difficult to clear the active HPV if one partner is on an ...

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