laurie864bla
10-20-2004, 06:26 PM
Hi all,
In November of 2002 I had a very bad pap and went in for a colposcopy which was also not good. I had lots of bleeding with the biopsies and lots of pain too. It was horrible. Anyway, my doc at the time told me I needed to have a loop and cone biopsy after consulting with an oncologist. When I asked if I had cancer he said no, just pre cancer. Why he consulted I do not know. The morning of my surgery I had this paper in my hand to take up with me and I decided to look at it--it was my form for surgery. It said on the top, "adenocarcinoma" and I freaked. I asked my doc and he really blew me off and said, no no no, just pre cancer. I had the procedure done and he said path report stated he got it all and it was fine. I was majorly packed after surgery under general anesthesia so much so I felt like I had a roll of bounty up there. (sorry) I had a pap the following year and it was fine, but it hurt bigtime! This year I switched docs again, the old one is not practicing anymore. I just went in for a check up and to discuss bleeding. It hurt really bad---really bad! She couldn't believe w/ my history that I had not been told to come back every 3 months. She stated my cervix was very hard and very closed. She wants me to have an endometrial biopsy, internal sonogram, and consider an ablation fro the bleeding if there is nothing drastic, like cancer, wrong. She said I am definitely a candidate fro general for the biopsy and ablation--thank God! I can get the results in about a week from the pap, but I am really nervous now and feel like a complete idiot for not pressing the doc more a couple yrs ago. It sounds so strange looking back, but maybe I did not want to know or something. I have to go down there to sign something and get the records asap, b/c I do not have them. I know that is what I need to do, and let my new doc see them like she wants. Any thoughts out there on what I should expect or what I should write down to ask the doc this time? I want to make sure I am getting all the facts this time and not just blindly trusting doctors with my health. Thanks, and sorry so long.
In November of 2002 I had a very bad pap and went in for a colposcopy which was also not good. I had lots of bleeding with the biopsies and lots of pain too. It was horrible. Anyway, my doc at the time told me I needed to have a loop and cone biopsy after consulting with an oncologist. When I asked if I had cancer he said no, just pre cancer. Why he consulted I do not know. The morning of my surgery I had this paper in my hand to take up with me and I decided to look at it--it was my form for surgery. It said on the top, "adenocarcinoma" and I freaked. I asked my doc and he really blew me off and said, no no no, just pre cancer. I had the procedure done and he said path report stated he got it all and it was fine. I was majorly packed after surgery under general anesthesia so much so I felt like I had a roll of bounty up there. (sorry) I had a pap the following year and it was fine, but it hurt bigtime! This year I switched docs again, the old one is not practicing anymore. I just went in for a check up and to discuss bleeding. It hurt really bad---really bad! She couldn't believe w/ my history that I had not been told to come back every 3 months. She stated my cervix was very hard and very closed. She wants me to have an endometrial biopsy, internal sonogram, and consider an ablation fro the bleeding if there is nothing drastic, like cancer, wrong. She said I am definitely a candidate fro general for the biopsy and ablation--thank God! I can get the results in about a week from the pap, but I am really nervous now and feel like a complete idiot for not pressing the doc more a couple yrs ago. It sounds so strange looking back, but maybe I did not want to know or something. I have to go down there to sign something and get the records asap, b/c I do not have them. I know that is what I need to do, and let my new doc see them like she wants. Any thoughts out there on what I should expect or what I should write down to ask the doc this time? I want to make sure I am getting all the facts this time and not just blindly trusting doctors with my health. Thanks, and sorry so long.