New, scared, and questions.

MsStevious · New User Joined: 16 Oct 2009 Posts: 5

Hello,

I will start by telling you a little bit about myself. I'm 23 years old, mother to three young children who are 5, 3, and 2 years old, wife to a Coast Guard husband, owner to a labrador, and a full time college student.

My symptoms started out with labor-like pain, like the worse contraction I've ever had, but would not give me a break. The first time it happened was in mid June 09 and lasted for about 45 minutes, then the next was about a month later and lasted about 25 min. I ignored both of these; I guess I just figured that since the pain completely left after these episodes, I would be fine. I was confused mostly and just thought that I should wait until I had other symptoms. Well, I did have other symptoms and they came just a couple weeks later. The next symptom I had was vaginal bleeding after intercourse. It was moderate bleeding and I continued to bleed for a couple days. I had been working out for quite sometime and out of nowhere my upper left leg and knee were in alot of pain, I had taken a break from working out, but it still continued to hurt. There are more symptoms, but I'll just leave it at that for now. I then made an appointment to see my GYN for a pap smear, at this point the last pap smear I had had was 2 years before.

I have always had normal pap smears, until 10/2 of this year. When receiving my results, the doctor had told me that I had high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion. After asking for a copy of the papers, I noticed that it also said "atypical endocervical cells, favors neoplasia". Does anyone know what this means? My GYN said that I at least have severe dysplasia and he immediately told me that I would need to come back for a LEEP procedure. After telling me this, he performed a colposcopy and said he found two spots on my cervix that looked like bulging blood vessels and biopsied both of them. He said that I should not be having any symptoms with dysplasia at all, but also said that he didn't think that I had cervical cancer because I was "too young". So if he doesn't think it's dysplasia because I am having symptoms and he doesn't think it's cancer cause I'm too young... then WHAT IS IT?? He is confusing me. I just don't know what to think, but I can tell you that I am TERRIFIED. At this point, it's just a waiting game. I'm waiting for my biopsy results to come back. Can someone please tell me what to expect to find out from these biopsies, if it is CC will it tell me what stage I'm in?? Did anyone of you have symptoms with dysplasia?? I might have more questions later, but for now this is where I'll end it. Thank you for listening to me ramble on in my nervous emotional fury. Mad

miozio · New User Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Posts: 1

The most important thing is to see your biopsy results. If you are diagnosed with dysplasia, there is no need to worry as it is not cancer and it is treated on a regular basis. You did great to see your doctor, but how often do you normally see your gynecologist?

rockstar · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:15 pm Post subject: Re: New, scared, and questions.

Hi MsStevious,

First, sorry you are going through this tough time of not knowing. We have all been their and sometimes waiting is the toughest part.

First off, with the biopsies from the colp, we can find out what kind of cellular changes are happening on your cervix. If it is cancer, we can't necessarily tell what stage you are in yet as we would not know how deep it is until we did a cone biopsy (but lets not get ahead of ourselves).

We do need to wait for those results. And I know the information that your doctor is giving you seems confusing and conflicting (do they even listen to themselves? Razz

), but we can't jump to any conclusions until we have all the facts. "atypical endocervical cells, favors neoplasia" basically means that there is an unusual new growth in the cells around your cervix. This is nothing to fret about because it could just be very small cellular changes.

And with the severe dysplasia and symptoms, try not to over think it. Your symptoms could be caused from other things. And this whole thing of "too young for cancer", doctors like to say that to patients because they do not want to scare their patients. Most times it ends up NOT being a cancer diagnosis. If doctors got a dollar for every time they have a patient who thinks they have cancer and it turns out it wasn't, they wouldn't have school loans to pay off....what i am trying to say in a long convoluted way is that yes, cancer can happen at a young age (hello!), but chances of it are very rare.

Moral of the story: wait for the results! Very Happy

and let us know what they are when you get them back!

-i hope that did not sound like a weird tangent or anything
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Stage 1B1 Adenosquamous Carcinoma of the Cervix.
Diagnosed 5.7.09 @ age 20
Radical hysterectomy on 5.15.09
Wedding date: July 23, 2010

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