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Colposcopy tommorow I DREAD IT

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red37 · 27/02/2006 20:49

For the past 2 years, I have been attending the colposcopy clinic for abnormal cells. I hate it, it pisses me off, she is never gentle, when will this endAngry

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Flossam · 27/02/2006 20:50
Sad

Hope things are a little more gentle for you tomorrow. Good luck.

alliebaba · 27/02/2006 20:50

i don't know love. sending warm wishes from a stranger :)

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red37 · 27/02/2006 21:02

Thanks alli & flo.Smile

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lockets · 27/02/2006 21:06

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robinpud · 27/02/2006 21:06

You have my sympathies. I too have to have coloscopies as the nurse at our practice can't get a satisfactory smear, and boy has she tried.
All I recommend is building in the time afterwards for a nice cup of coffee and a read of a crappy magazine.

expatinscotland · 27/02/2006 21:12

Why don't they just do a cryotherapy or loop?

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red37 · 27/02/2006 21:16

What are they expat?Blush

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expatinscotland · 27/02/2006 21:20

Well, you go for the colpo, right. The healthcare practitioner does the camera thing and sees abnormalities with it. So she takes a biopsy. Pathology should come back w/a diagnosis of the biopsy - CINII/moderate dysplasia, for example. CINIII/severe dysplasia. Cancer in situ. Etc., etc.

Once your lab results are back, further treatment, if necessary, should be discussed. Cryo, where some of the topmost layers of the cervix are frozen off, hopefully removing the abnormality. Loop, in which a laser sort of cheese grates the abnormalities off. Cone biopsy - a more serious procedure in which abnormalities are removed from the endocervical canal, the opening bewteen the vagina and the uterus. Or repeat smear test in 6 months/'wait and see' approach.

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red37 · 27/02/2006 21:26

Thanks expatSmile
Always have the wait and see approach 6 monthly.

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notasheep · 27/02/2006 21:59

Thinking of you,MASSES of Sympathy.I have had 2 colposcopys so far,the worst one was when the Doctor inserted a tampax!!!!!!!!! Why couldnt he let me do it myself.

But the good news is that since surgery for adnormal cells all smears have been negative.

Wishing you well-can anyone go with you to hold your hand-i found that helped

chjlly · 27/02/2006 22:04

Thinking of you, I hope things aren't too bad I too had one 5 years ago and still remember how bad it was. :(
I had laser treatment to deal with the abnormal cells though and just had to go for regular smears since

blueteddy · 27/02/2006 22:06

Sympathies from me too. I had a couple of these done around 10 years ago & they are horrible.
Good luck.

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red37 · 27/02/2006 22:32

Thanks everyoneSmile, just have to grit my teeth, dh cant come with me as he has to work(he has been to the last three).

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saltire · 27/02/2006 22:42

Totsl sympathies too, have had about 8 in the past 2/3 years, so know exactly how you feel. I also had the Loop treatment that expat was on about. You could maybe try asking about it?
Good Luck anyway

Aimsmum · 01/03/2006 16:02

Is it really that bad? I've to go for one on Monday? Sad

RachD · 01/03/2006 16:49

Sorry to hear yours was bad.
I had one a couple of months ago.
They Lasered all my bad cells, at the same time.
Didn't feel a thing.
Maybe your should politely mention how 'rough they are being'.

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