Severe Dyskaryosis

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... its abnormal cells. I hope everything is o.k.

Honestly Sue, what else will be thrown at you to deal with.

sending up a prayer for you

Sorry honey, Like you don't have enough going on....
I had cryology - freezing the cells on the cervix 12 yrs. ago.
Worst case - if you need that ? Not that bad of a procedure
and very effective. My paps have been fine ever since.
Good luck and keep us posted.
Zelda

huge hugs to you. i had the freezing years ago too, and it wasn't fun but wasn't horrible. i then took some chineese herbs and have never had abnormal cells since.
hope you get to the other side of this very very soon.
kiki

Hi Sue

I had that after having my babies. It started off as 'cervical erosion', which seems to be another way of saying "Your cervix hasn't gone back to normal quick enough after having babies." I had to have more frequent smears for a few years, then the abnormal cells all went away by themselves and have never returned. No freezing necessary. I went back to 12 monthly smears and just keep that up. Never had another problem.

Just remember that doctors use secret words with more than two syllables as a way of describing simple things, often (but not this time) another way of describing the symptoms we have just told them we have. Then we go "Oooo! That sounds scary!" but it is really only another word.

For heavens sake (not impatient with you, just stating the bleeding obvious), we go to see them knowing there is a problem or for routine screening to look for problems Why then, do we get so scared when we hear a big word? It is because we don't understand and haven't been given all the information, and it means more prodding, poking and having things done to our bodies with sharp pointy sticks! NO WONDER WE SAY "OOOOO, THAT SOUNDS SCARY."

Feel the fear and do it anyway. Hope all goes well. Keep breathing. At least you are onto it and can get on and deal with it, as unpleasant as it might seem. Better than not having smears and having a gyno tell you a few years later that you will die if s/he doesn't remove your uterus!! Aren't I the cheerful one. (((Sue)))

Cheers

Louise

Hi Sue

Keep breathing, my dear. At least it will be over sooner, rather than hanging around waiting. I do hope they are kind to your body while you are there. I know that they certainly will have a clear idea of your wishes by the time they have to 'do' you!

Ya'll be in my prayers.

Louise

I have had scares last year, first my breasts and prolapse they sent me fr a mammo and thank God it was ok. In the UK they are really quick with womens type of things so don't worry MeMyselfAndI I know it's hard not to but believe me prayer to God helps. Sometimes we don't even know when help has been there.Godbless you i'm sure everything will be just fine
One night a man had a dream.
He dreamed he was walking along
the beach with the Lord.

Across the dark sky flashed scenes from his life.
For each scene, he noticed
two sets of footprints in the sand,
one beloning to him and the other to the Lord.

When the last scene of his life flashed before him,
he looked back at the footprints in the sand.
He noticed that many times along the path of his life
there was only one set of footprints.
He also noticed that it happened at the
very lowest and saddest times in his life.
This bothered him and he questioned the Lord about it.

"Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you,
you'd walk with me all the way.
But I have noticed that during the most
troublesome times in my life there is
only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why when I needed you most
you would leave me."

The Lord replied "My precious, precious child,
I love you and would never leave you.
During your times of trial and suffereing,
when you see only one set of footprints in the sand,
it was then that I carried you."

Hang in there....good luck on Monday....I'm be thinking of you.
Love, Goldfinch

can you give us a reminder? we can all send you light when you are there(I guess I should only speak for myself but I'm sure I'm not the only one!)
S

{{{hugs}} i have to go in for a colposcopy/biopsy soon too. to see how it is developing. i'm not too worried. i've had it done before and sometimes the first test is inaccurate. i hope thats the case with you also.

Let us know how you get on.

Anita xx

HI Sue,
I just wanted to reassure you that if one of your fears is a general anesthetic, YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE ONE for a biopsy or for lasering cells. I don't know if they do it under an anesthetic under the UK (they seem to do lots of things under a general there!) but in the US it's done in your doctors' office with no anesthetic.

i agree about not wanting to be asleep whilst anyone goes near the prolapses--i was thinking a tatoo might be good saying "leave my prolapses alone!". but for a simple biopsy and also for dealing with the cells you don't need to be asleep. it may not feel great, but it's completely doable.

let us know how you get on!
kiki

Be thinkin' of ya Sue! Good luck.

Louise

i will be thinking of you today, sending all my love xoxo

and thinking of Sue
{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}

let us know how it went

You are OK - I am sooo happy for you. I have been praying and thinking about you all morning today. Thank you for letting us know. :-)
(((Goldfinch)))

So glad you got through it. You must feel relieved and as for the prolapse well that must have made you feel better as well :o). Well done.

Anita

I'm so glad all went well I have been thinking about you (((Sue)))
You have been so kind to many of us on this forum and I personaly thank you for that. I'm just glad everything went well and i'm sure it will continue.
Anne
x

Sue,

I love your typos, your imagination and your wit!

Two of my daughters had what you had and neither of them had any more trouble.

"I don't want them to know." Exactly. I think a lot of doctors think we want to "do" something about our problems. Quite frankly, I don't. When you are passive about "fixing" stuff, they think you, the patient, are dumb. So you lose either way. I went for my annual, and I didn't say a word, and she didn't say a word, and I went away with my prolapses, and she ( the doctor) went away with her pregnancy, and we're square!

I don't need help with what "ain't" broken, so don't try to break it so it needs fixing. That's my policy. I believe the term is "benign neglect."

Well now that I've practiced my quotation marks, I'll close.

Pax and thankfully today is not Monday! Hope you can put the ordeal behind you and move on to healthy, healthy, happy, happy.

Judy

Sue:

Glad you are doing well.

Judy - can I borrow that phrase "healthy, healthy, happy happy"? It is GREAT! I'm going to use it as much as possible. We all need it!
-Nikki

N4x4,

Sure - in fact I'll make you a present of it. Now it's yours.

Judy

It all sounds a bit painful. I find smears uncomfortable so I can't imagine them taking an inch of my cervix! Yikes!

You are bound to worry, that is only natural. Keep positive thoughts, all will be well.

Your hubbie sounds so good, its great to have that kind of support system.

The board is really quiet these days. Everybodys either really busy or is just taking a break. I seem to ALWAYS be around. I must lead a very sad life! he he.

Anita

.... the dragging sensation will ease in a few days. I bet you are finding it really hard not to checkerama!

How long before you get the results?

You are funny. Leave it all alone! No surgical gloves!

I used to check check and re-check constantly throughout the day but have now gotten to the point that I am scared to check. I know its worse as I can feel it so I don't need upset myself further by literally feeling it.

I am sure you are worried at the moment and it will seem like the longest 6 weeks ever but we will all be thinking of you and keeping our fingers crossed that it will be fine.

Anita

can you at least squat over a mirror and take a peek?

I know, I'm enabling. sorry!

I hope the results come back good, and soon

I do hope it doesn't die on you. I am lost without my internet connection! Gosh what a sad thing to say but honestly I use the internet for everything and when we do have computer crashes it really stresses me. Also I can't get on here!

Luckily hubbie is really good with computers and put together our main computer himself so usually within a couple of days we are up and running again.

.... son actually asked if he could have a computer in his room when we get round to decorating it sometime this year. My husband said yes and I was a bit like "how much is that going to cost?" and he said he could knock one up really cheap. I'll have to ask just how cheap he can knock one up and what sort of spec it would be.

Our laptop is Vista but the main computer is Windows 98 I think. Vista was a bit confusing at first but like everything else you get used to it and eventually find your way around it and now I prefer it.

tea all over the keyboard!

OMG sue that is too funny

I saw this one in a fabric shop:
"any children unaccompanied by an adult will be turned into remnants"

but I still like the 'dr at your cervix' best : )

.. make a difference. I switched to decaf when I was pregnant and found it tastes exactly the same so I always buy decaf tea now. I am assuming it is the caffine in tea that makes it a diuretic? I have 1-3 cups of tea a day myself and have recently had coffee, now the coffee is not decaf but I don't find it really bothers things, the feeling is always the same.

Anita

P.S. Hopefully Sue things will start to feel better again soon.

DON'T let your son have a computer in his room ! Yikes, I just saw this and had to put
my little opinion out there ! Do you KNOW how broody and weird teen-agers get ? You'll never see
him again !!! That's right around the corner... Keep control of the computer at all times !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
keep it in the center of family space. There is a compulsivity issue these kids are dealing with
and it makes them all the more vulnerable to these chat rooms and all the disturbing fallout that
is associated with this instant connection, but lacking the maturity to handle it well, and be kind.
I just saw such a disturbing program here on PBS about Kids and computers, and it only reinforced my
own experiences with my kids (16 &12) and suspicions I have. My Apple has such a great security
system with passwords and such that my kids have to go through me to get on. And house rule is
they don't have access if I'm not around. I sound like a control freak poss., but you continually lose ground
as kids get older so by all means don't GIVE it away !! AAAah !
Sincerely !,
Zelda