Long story coming up but I don't want to drip feed! Sorry everyone x
I'm 34 with a three year old DD. After 18 months of over-frequent periods (every two weeks, increasingly heavy) I finally mentioned this to my doctor and got a referral. I have memory issues so it took my DH to help me work out what was going on! Hence the 18 months.
I had an ultrasound two months ago which found a polyp. They showed me it and basically it was outside my womb and they were like, it's no big deal, loads of people have them, you probably won't need anything doing to it. I could very clearly see it was not in my actual womb.
A gynae decided it's probably my contraceptive implant playing up. He said they'd do a hysteroscopy, get a sample of my womb lining just to check and put a Mirena in while they're in there. No big deal, he said.
Well last week I went back for the hysteroscopy. The gynae - a different one - seemed fine until she realised that what she thought was the front wall of my womb was in actual fact a huge polyp that has somehow developed between now and that ultrasound. She didn't say anything but her face said it all. She looked really confused and quite stunned. She showed me it and it looked a lot like my womb but slightly dimpled, and it's attached at the top, to the front.
Obviously she couldn't put the Mirena in. She told me the polyp is a few inches across - pushing my womb out, as it's bigger than a walnut - and she told me is need an operation to take it out. She said I'm probably not fertile and should not TTC (not likely as I don't want another one anyway). She told me the wait is six weeks. She looked quite concerned.
Obviously I'm now freaking out that maybe I have cancer. Plus it took five attempts to get a good enough sample of my womb and now I'm on my period and I swear to god I've never had period pain like this. It's hurt ever since I had the hysteroscopy and I don't know if it's all in my head but it feels like pressure down there.
Questions:
- What's it like to have a polyp removed
- How long is the wait, usually? Six weeks seems fast and I have a pre-op next week. My gallbladder took way longer
- Am I crazy or does it sound weird to grow a huge polyp in two months
- Can someone please tell me their story of growing a huge polyp and not having cancer
Thanks everyone.