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Relief at results

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majormoo · 17/11/2005 12:26

Hello
I suppose I should put this under the Health section really, but as I got so much support here after my losing my baby in August I wanted to put it here.

In March this year I had to have treatment to have abnormal cells on my cervix removed after a dodgy smear result.

In August I had a termination as we found out at our 12 week scan that our daughter had Patau's syndrome.

Last week I went back for a follow up smear and have been dreading the results. I was so worried I would need more treatment and it would affect my ability to carry a pregnancy. That is in addition to the fear of cancer.

The hospital said it would take 3-4 weeks for results. A letter arrived this morning from the hospital and I was terrified it was the bad news as it came so quickly. But it was all fine. I had a normal result.

It feels like this year has been awful-my dad was seriously ill at the beginning of the year, I had my dodgy cells, we lost the baby so at last some good news.

I still have to go back in 6 months as there is a risk of recurrence, but for six months we can breathe again (and will probably give ttc again another go!)

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SackAche · 17/11/2005 12:28

Majormoo - PHEW!! I was nervous enough waiting for my results even though I haven't been through anything like that. Excellent news and GOOD LUCK TTC!

Twiglett · 17/11/2005 12:30

That sounds like good news

Please try to relax about your abnormal cells and treatment though .. I had a loop excision in August after a dodgy smear (and 1 in 12 women get a dodgy result) and was also worried .. but the information I was given was

it makes no impact on future conception / pregnancy

they detect pre-cancerous cells so that means in 10 or 20 years there is a possibility they may turn into something nasty .. but they've been removed

after having a procedure you get checked more often anyway

HTH good luck

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