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.

sex after a leep

Chrissy-Jean
  • By Chrissy-Jean · New reply January 7, 2009
  • 8 replies
  • What would happen to me if i have sex 3 or so days after i had a leep ...

Bowel pain after hysterectomy?

kb1200
  • By kb1200 · New reply January 7, 2009
  • 33 replies
  • I had a total hysterectomy March 31 for adenocarcinoma in situ. Since then I have had horrible bowel pains from gas and anytime I have a bowel movement it is excrutiating. My ob thinks it may still be ...

Fertility Concerns

GormCanor
  • By GormCanor · New reply December 30, 2008
  • 9 replies
  • As a young woman, I know one of the major concerns I have encountered is the preservation of my own fertility. It breaks my heart to imagine that I might never have the opportunity to become a mother ...

Post LEEP...what's normal?

sweet_annabelle23
  • By sweet_annabelle23 · New reply December 30, 2008
  • 12 replies
  • I had my first LEEP two days ago after colposcopy results came back as severe dysplasia...which ended up being much more traumatic than expected. My body didn't respond to the local anesthetic...so instead ...

Blah..... pinky blood... what?

utzingerj
  • By utzingerj · Posted December 28, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Ok so I had a LEEP procedure done on the 26th of November.... i had my period the week before hand... I had the normal smelly discharge for a while, almost zero bleeding and then on the 9th of December ...

cervical cancer and water retention

adoll
  • By adoll · New reply December 21, 2008
  • 4 replies
  • I'm currently on a 3 month break from chemo, but scheduled to start again on the 29th. My CT scan found that in the 3 months I've been off of chemo my lesion on my liver has increased to 8.0 cm (from ...

Cervical pain and leg weakness

Whysperia
  • By Whysperia · New reply December 18, 2008
  • 19 replies
  • When I was pregnant with my son, Noah, I was diagnosed with cervical cancer. I had my son two months early by cesarean. A month after that, my cemo and radiation started. My treatments have been over ...

LONG TERM EFFECTS FROM PELVIC RADIATION

sara48
  • By sara48 · New reply December 6, 2008
  • 20 replies
  • Has anyone experienced insuffiecient pelvic fractures or hips and legs hurting, necrosis? I had radiation 30 yrs ago for cervical cancer and for the last 2 yrs having problems. Sara ...

9 Days After Leep? Discharge Question.

mamagaines
  • By mamagaines · New reply November 27, 2008
  • 10 replies
  • It has been 9 days since my LEEP. Let me tell you I will never have that procedure done again unless they knock me out. My cervical block / local what ever you want to call it did not take place. Needless ...

Has anyone had a bone scan?

4myboys
  • By 4myboys · New reply November 16, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • Hi all, I have had a couple low-level labs in the last couple months (I am now 5+ months post chemo & radiation treatments). Last month my white cell count was down, and 3 weeks later my platelet count ...

IT'S A MONSTER!

Tavy
  • By Tavy · New reply November 15, 2008
  • 8 replies
  • Ok...I just need to blow off some steam. Maybe I'm whining and want sympathy...I don't know? Anyhow, MY DIGESTIVE SYSTEM IS DRIVING ME NUTS! I've had a good couple of weeks, but last night and this morning ...

Sex after my LEEP

lilangel0088
  • By lilangel0088 · New reply November 8, 2008
  • 3 replies
  • this may be a really dumb question, but i had my LEEP operation done Oct8th and had my follow up today, and my doctor said everything looked great. my question is, (that i should have asked my doctor ...

Pressure in lower Abdomen after a leep

littleone11
  • By littleone11 · Posted November 7, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • I've just had my second Leep procedure on Nov 3rd and have been experiencing pressure in my lower abdomen. It is uncomfortable, almost feels like I am bloated, but not necessarily painful. Has anyone ...

Has anyone experienced this?

erinleigh8
  • By erinleigh8 · New reply October 29, 2008
  • 4 replies
  • Hi everyone, So it's been almost seven weeks since I had the radical trachelectomy, and everything seemed to be going fine. At five weeks I went to my doctor's office for a checkup and they said all the ...

hernias after hysterectomy

toja
  • By toja · New reply September 23, 2008
  • 14 replies
  • Stage 2a, 2005 external/internal rad, cisplatin/5fu, hysterectomy Seattle cancer care alliance I am on my 3rd hernia,the first one appeared right after surgery,(although they where trying to tell me that ...

New decision after all these years

cfng102
  • By cfng102 · New reply September 23, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • I had adenocarcinoma in situ and carcinoma in situ 18 years ago when I was 25. It was treated with a laser cone biopsy and I have not had an abnormal pap since. Here is my dilema now.....I have moved ...

Dormant vs eliminated HPV

Pirkar
  • By Pirkar · New reply September 18, 2008
  • 25 replies
  • I got HPV 16 probably in 2005 and it stayed in my cervix for 4 years. When the dysplasia (CIN III) was removed by excision, HPV may be have been removed in toto. In case I will be tested HPV- after the ...

sea-buckthorn oil after LEEP/CKC?

Pirkar
  • By Pirkar · Posted September 12, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Maybe silly question. My gyn recommended inserting sea-buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) oli into vagina about 1 week after the surgery (LEEP/cone biopsy). See for effects: http://www.itmonline.org/arts/seabucktho ...

Anyone else have these symptoms? Please say you have...

MOOREGIRLY_MOM
  • By MOOREGIRLY_MOM · New reply September 8, 2008
  • 9 replies
  • Hey everyone, mind if I give a list of symptoms? I'm really looking for someone to say, "oh, yeah, I've had that before - completely normal" - LOL. Something just doesn't feel right to me and I don't ...

Bowel treatment after radiation? Solution

michellelwhitlock
  • By michellelwhitlock · New reply August 31, 2008
  • 3 replies
  • Hello all--- If you're like me, you're tired of pooping your pants and diarrhea after radiation. it's been 4 yours, many doctors, medications and treatments. I was beginning to loose hope and then ...

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