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louiseds
May 25, 2008 - 6:53am
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Bleeding polyp
Hi Fairmaiden
I just had a look at some of your other posts. You had an haemmoroid or something last year, didn't you? But you said in this last post that this is on your cervix. Is that right?
I think you would be wise to have your PAP smear early, and also ask the doctor exactly what it was last time, and if this is related.
As you are just past menopause (probably?), I would be going to a general practitioner who is a member of your country's menopause association, not a gynaecologist. The menopause doctor will refer you if need be. In Australia menopause is not a medical specialty. Gyns do menopause stuff, but I think they are all a bit busy removing uteruses and hitching up bladders to make menopause patients a priority. However, you probably know the doctors you deal with, and I don't!
Actually, our closest gynaecologist is over an hour's drive from here, and last time I saw him he wanted to relieve me of my uterus, so I don't go back there!
Our town finds it hard enough to find general practitioners to work here, despite the fact that it is a beaut community and not far from the big city, so if I have to travel further afield, as I sometimes do, I may as well go to the most suitable practitioner, and for me, in the case of menopause, that is a general practitioner at a metropolitan women's health clinic where they do it all the time.
That's my thoughts anyway, but I think you need to clarify for yourself exactly what is happening in that body of yours. Bleeding can be a sign of things other than a uterus that doesn't know if it is finished or not. And why is the polyp bleeding anyway?
cheers
Louise
fairmaiden
May 25, 2008 - 8:24am
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Pretty sure it's a polyp
I feel so naive about my body. I'm really not sure what it was last year that was bleeding. I'm not sure if I even asked. Terrible of me, isn't it? I do feel a bit wiser, though, since finding this site.
I'm from the US. I do have a General Practioner. Not sure of country's menopause association. Never heard of that association. I'm making an appointment on Tues. Should know more about it then. I'm wondering if it could be my period. But my bladder is much worse too. I just don't know.
louiseds
May 25, 2008 - 9:04am
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Pretty sure its a polyp
Hi Fairmaiden
No you're not terrible at all. It is pretty hard stuff to deal with, particularly if you feel uncomfortable about asking, and the doctor is not active in telling you, but I can see that you need some answers. I can also see that it could be gyn-based, and it could be menopause-based, or it could be both.
I had an interesting discussion with an elderly and very smart, conservative, orthopaedic surgeon a couple of weeks ago. He was telling me that all medical specialist fields have very clearcut boundaries between them, and they don't touch each other's territory. If their orthopaedic surgery risks affecting, say a uterus, they would consult a gynaecologist and have one in attendance. They really don't even understand a lot of the language of other specialties except their own. I don't know to what degree specialist and general practitioner have fixed boundaries between them? These boundaries give western medicine both great strength and great weakness. Unfortunately it is the patient who is caught in the middle.
However, I can only encourage you to find out exactly what was diagnosed in the past and get copies of all reports, so if the doctor falls off the perch you have the information about you, that you paid for, in your possession. Your learning starts now. 5-4-3-2-1-0- Blast off! I am sure you will understand better what has happened when you have better information, and will feel less scared of what is happening to your body now. It probably doesn't matter who you go to, as long as you find out what it is. It is your body, after all.
Good luck.
Louise
fairmaiden
June 10, 2008 - 4:56pm
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Irritated uterus..
is what I was told was the problem; not a polyp. I do notice it when I strain to have a BM. I try not to do that. Usually, when I drink tons of water, it just slides right out(TMI,sorry). Does sound gross, but that's how it feels.
When I was having the pap smear done, he did tell me that my cervix is 'right there'; he didn't have to go 'in' & find it. I was told that my prolapse looked good & he does seem to go in pretty easily. I told him that I manage it & it does go in pretty easily especially at night,lol. I kinda made myself laugh when I said that. He told me that I was doing a pretty job.(I considered that a compliment.) He then proceeded to show pics of ladies who don't get hysterectomies & their prolapses look sooo bad. I suspect that those were women who hadn't been taking care of themselves. He does go to Guatemala on the 20th to help the women over there. He told me that they walk everywhere.
I was reminded that when "I'm there'(for the hyster & bladder susp),he'll be there to do the job.
AnneH
June 12, 2008 - 10:13am
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Well did he tell you what to
Well did he tell you what to DO about the "irritated uterus"?? Perhaps your cervix is rubbing against panties or drying out. Have you tried slathering one of the Whole Woman balms on the area? That might put a protective film over whatever is hanging at the opening. Change type of panties maybe, or wear no panties at all, at least while you're just hanging around the house, or try a pessary to hold it inside. According to my research, the reason that it is dangerous to have the uterus outside the body is because the tissues are not designed to be exposed to air. There are also other things, such as causing a urethra prolapse, but the main problem is exposure to air. You get such irritations and then once the surface is compromised you risk infection and so on. You only have a bit of cervix to worry about so if you can heal the irritation and eliminate any risk from that, then you will be better off holding off any argument the doctor will give you about "needing" a hysterectomy for your own safety.