dmntink
09-14-2005, 12:09 PM
hey everyone, i don't want to scare anyone with what i'm going to say i just want to get it out there so people know that everyone is different.
In the beginning of the summer, i went in to the doctors and had a meeting about an abnormal pap they did a few weeks prior. I was told that i had precancerous cells on my cervix and they wanted to do a colposcopy, so i went in and had that done, well they needed to do a biopsy that day as well, i didn't have any type of numbing medicine i just dealt with the pain. I have been told that getting the numbing meds hurt worse than just the biopsy and colposcopy combined! So about a week after i had the biopsy i got a call from my doctor himself telling me the results weren't good and i needed to come in to talk about future procedures. We had planned for me to get a LEEP done at the local hospital because of how my cervix is positioned (it's tilted) so they set my surgery date for 7/1/05. After the surgery i was out of it because they had to put me all the way under. My anesthesioligist (sp) was great!! he talked me through everything to calm me down, i was very scared, so after i woke up i had to use the restroom before they would let me leave the hospital. I got home and I line in an apartment complex and thank god we have an elevator, otherwise i would have had to be carried up the stairs. Maybe it was me still waking up from the anesthesia but i was in some pain. I was given tylenol 3 with codine for the pain and i just layed on the couch all morning, my boyfriend took wonderful care of me. He helped me get around everywhere and finally took a nap with me so he was there incase i needed him for anything. I started feeling a bit better since i wasn't so groggy anymore but thats when the discomfort set in. I walked very slow for a few days after the surgery, careful not to move to fast to reduce the pain. I was out of work for a week. I tried coming back in after a few days off and my work made me leave (they were all worried i came back before i was ready) but it took me about a week to fully recover. So i went back for my post surgery appointment, and found out the results didn't come back good. They didn't go down far enough to get all the cells that were causing problems. So i had to heal and I went back to the doctors on monday (9-12-05) for another colposcopy and i had to have TWO biopsys this time...which scares me because it tells me i will have to have the leep done again...which i don't mind i just want it all over with because i'm still young. I'm only 21 and having these problems isn't good since i want kids and not in the distant future, i'm talking like within the next few years. So if anyone has had this done twice i would love to hear from you.
I'm on the verdge of hysterical now..i feel like i want to just curl up in a ball and not do anything, I am so afraid that i won't be able to have kids, ovarian cancer runs in my family...mothers side at that, and i'm just worried this isn't helping me, only hurting me more.
In the beginning of the summer, i went in to the doctors and had a meeting about an abnormal pap they did a few weeks prior. I was told that i had precancerous cells on my cervix and they wanted to do a colposcopy, so i went in and had that done, well they needed to do a biopsy that day as well, i didn't have any type of numbing medicine i just dealt with the pain. I have been told that getting the numbing meds hurt worse than just the biopsy and colposcopy combined! So about a week after i had the biopsy i got a call from my doctor himself telling me the results weren't good and i needed to come in to talk about future procedures. We had planned for me to get a LEEP done at the local hospital because of how my cervix is positioned (it's tilted) so they set my surgery date for 7/1/05. After the surgery i was out of it because they had to put me all the way under. My anesthesioligist (sp) was great!! he talked me through everything to calm me down, i was very scared, so after i woke up i had to use the restroom before they would let me leave the hospital. I got home and I line in an apartment complex and thank god we have an elevator, otherwise i would have had to be carried up the stairs. Maybe it was me still waking up from the anesthesia but i was in some pain. I was given tylenol 3 with codine for the pain and i just layed on the couch all morning, my boyfriend took wonderful care of me. He helped me get around everywhere and finally took a nap with me so he was there incase i needed him for anything. I started feeling a bit better since i wasn't so groggy anymore but thats when the discomfort set in. I walked very slow for a few days after the surgery, careful not to move to fast to reduce the pain. I was out of work for a week. I tried coming back in after a few days off and my work made me leave (they were all worried i came back before i was ready) but it took me about a week to fully recover. So i went back for my post surgery appointment, and found out the results didn't come back good. They didn't go down far enough to get all the cells that were causing problems. So i had to heal and I went back to the doctors on monday (9-12-05) for another colposcopy and i had to have TWO biopsys this time...which scares me because it tells me i will have to have the leep done again...which i don't mind i just want it all over with because i'm still young. I'm only 21 and having these problems isn't good since i want kids and not in the distant future, i'm talking like within the next few years. So if anyone has had this done twice i would love to hear from you.
I'm on the verdge of hysterical now..i feel like i want to just curl up in a ball and not do anything, I am so afraid that i won't be able to have kids, ovarian cancer runs in my family...mothers side at that, and i'm just worried this isn't helping me, only hurting me more.