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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.

9 Days After Leep? Discharge Question.

mamagaines
  • By mamagaines · New reply 8:02 pm
  • 23 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 ...

Had Cone BIopsY, can I still get preg?

ccubberly
  • By ccubberly · New reply November 18, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • Soo, i had a cold knife cone biopsy in January.... for a while I was hurting and bleeding.. Every month after I had this procedure done, I have been getting very bad labor-like cramps for the 1st 2 days ...

Weight Gain

banana
  • By banana · New reply November 18, 2009
  • 15 replies
  • Has anyone had problems with bloating or weight gain after a LEEP or a Cone? I may be crazy but, I have gain a few pounds since. Also I seem to get bloated more than usual ...

Nichole Greene 1976 - 2009

aileen
  • By aileen · New reply November 18, 2009
  • 15 replies
  • NICHOLE GREENE 1976 - 2009 Nichole Bernadette Greene devoted her life to serving and following her Lord and King, Jesus Christ. She died Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 at Tarzana Regional Hospital after battling ...

Bowel pain after hysterectomy?

kb1200
  • By kb1200 · New reply November 18, 2009
  • 46 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 ...

No period or ovulation after cone biopsy

babymom
  • By babymom · New reply November 16, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • I had a cone biopsy 4 months ago and still have not ovulated or gotten my period. A few days after my cone biopsy I thought that I got my period but it never returned the next month. In Oct. I thought ...

Side effects of Radiation/Chemo

penny4
  • By penny4 · New reply November 12, 2009
  • 26 replies
  • I had 6 chemo, 29 external radiation and 5 internal radiation treatments that ended one year ago December. I experienced bladder and bowel problems then, and still do over a year later. I also experience ...

has anyone tried isoflavones for menopause??

bodina
  • By bodina · Posted November 10, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • I was wondering if anyone has tried soy isoflavones or any other natural remedy like pueraria mirifica for menopause symptoms instead of HRT. Im really thinking of trying something more natural first ...

Hip pain?

Obi69
  • By Obi69 · New reply November 7, 2009
  • 9 replies
  • I have squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix..i had major radiation to the pelvis area that was in july was last of tx..i have had hip pain small and tolerable..now my hips hurt so bad i can hardly walk ...

Can't take Estrogen..any suggestions

sr5er
  • By sr5er · New reply November 6, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • I was wondering if anyone could help me with this dilemia. I have recurrent cervical cancer..so they will not put me on estrogen. Afraid it will cause another cancer. any suggestions for herbal/natural ...

Bloating

JBO713
  • By JBO713 · Posted November 5, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • I had a leep this past june for cin III/cis and ever since then I have been extremely bloated. It comes on more when I am getting my period but I am bloated all the time. I also started to vitamins and ...

Pregnancy with HPV,LEEP,PCOS

Amanda5507
  • By Amanda5507 · New reply November 4, 2009
  • 14 replies
  • Hello all, This is my first post and I just want to say I am very inspired by all the support and advice I have read through other posts on this site. I guess I just need to vent about my personal situation ...

Tubal Cancer

okla_butterfly
  • By okla_butterfly · New reply November 3, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • After 6 months of Chemo and 5 weeks of intense radiation therapy .... 5 months later walking with a walker because of lower back pain and hip pain. Can radiation treatment cause this kind of pain? They ...

Any one with radiation enteritis?

JenniferLG
  • By JenniferLG · New reply November 1, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • Hi, I finished my treatments in Dec 2007, everything was going great(well as good as can be expected) until the beginning of 2009. The doctor thinks I have enteritis. Not much is being done about it ...

nausea after hysterectomy

Wendii
  • By Wendii · New reply October 23, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • I had a total hysterectomy on Oct. 5 - in the past three days I have felt very nauseated. It feels like the nausea that I had when I was pregnant. I'm trying to figure out if this could be due to the ...

Is my problems post hysterectomy normal

traceybcn
  • By traceybcn · New reply October 23, 2009
  • 8 replies
  • Hi all, I did an abdominal hysterectomy 14 days ago and suffer severe bowel pain when I go to the bathroom. My lower abdomen is very sullen ( I think that is the english word) and I have quite smelly ...

Life SUCKS!!!!

babyj870508
  • By babyj870508 · New reply October 20, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • Ok, I haven't been on the board for awhile. Updates are; I had cryo therapy back in April, ended up getting an infection from that and spent a week in the hospital being treated for endometritis.. OH ...

recovering from radical trachelectomy

christiecsr
  • By christiecsr · New reply October 18, 2009
  • 10 replies
  • Hi everyone. It's been awhile since I have posted. I was diagnosed with stage 1b1 cervical cancer on June 28th. I had a radical trachelectomy with node dissection on August 26th and am home recovering ...

8 wees pregant after a recent cone

cmp75
  • By cmp75 · New reply October 12, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • had cone biopsy in June after having CIN III CIS0. I was told it was ok to have sex 6 weeks later. My husband and I had already made the decision to start a family and fell pregnant in August, I am now ...

New decision after all these years

cfng102
  • By cfng102 · New reply October 9, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • 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 ...

stopcancernow: How about a HPV test you can do in the privacy of your own home and not have to go into the docs office for the test?!!?!?!

stopcancernow: How about HPV Point-of-care testing in Docs office so you can get HPV result while in the office?? We have the technology to do that now.

stopcancernow: It is good to be careful not to over test young adults (under 21). So so many positives that amount to nothing and women over tested!!

stopcancernow: What needs to be added to ACOG guidelines??? HPV Testing. HPV Testing. HPV Testing!!!!!!!!!!!!

stopcancernow: What needs to be added to ACOG guidelines? Add Pap test AND HPV test for women age 30 and over. It should be in there!!!

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