BigMoFos w/c 25 January

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(better late than never; sorry all)

Yup - seeing her tomorrow morning. I'm not panicking about it, per se, just the inconvenience (or maybe ). Still - hopefully I can put off having it whipped off (if that's what it needs) until after the end of our financial year .

You can't do too much for a good company

The doctor might be able to do the smear anyway; depends on how big and where it is.

Hope you get on OK anyway.

Jackieno i am waiting to see someone at the hosp about a polyp on my cervix too

Have you had any symptoms with it at all?

Oh meant to say the doc was able to do mine ni problems thank goodness.

Ta muchly for the donuts - although I have no room for them - I have eaten all the pies you see

After doing well for three weeks I am backsliding most spectacularly. Far too much chocolate and I seem to be eating toast and marmalade for a very late tea.

Kick up the arse required, if you would all be so kind.

at all the polyps. Hope they are sorted asap.

And pancake day tomorrow (which means I may have to go out and buy chocolate spread to go on them, which in turn means I may have to eat it).

Agalch - interesting that you've got one too - no, I didn't know there were any symptoms .

Hope yours gets sorted soon.

Lol jackie. Not sure that there are any symptoms with it but i have had bleeding between periods,after sex etc. In fact i bleed a bit pretty much all the time so wondered if the polyp was the reason?

Hmm sounds like the bleeding is something else.

Well having googled, it does look as though the bleeding you're getting could well be a symptom, but it also looks as if it depends on the size of your polyp. Have you been waiting long for your hospital appointment?

Well the doctor didn't need to see me, as such, just that referrals to the hospital need to be done by a doctor, so it was just a technicality.

I made it into work for, oh, almost a full hour before school called me to say that DD was feeling ill. It's not really going very well atm. What with DS last week too. But she hasn't actually been sick, just sitting around watching CBBC.

Well had the problem since dd2 (17 months) was born but had a smear a month before christmas and was referred then too.

Got a letter last week and i could be sent to a few different hospitals depending on the waiting list at each hosp.

I have a hosp 2 mins drive away but could end up in the next city?? Go figure lol

That's ridiculous, isn't it. HOpe you get the 2 minutes away one. Doesn't sound as if it's anything to worry about - just a bit of a pita (almost literally).

Lol,yeah too right. AF is here again(every 16/17 days atm )

I can't leave the house without a soooper strength tampon and a super absorbent pad and i am flooding within an hour. Not much fun for mindees being stuck in with me!!!

for you agalch. Must be infuriating. Hope they can sort it.

poor you agalch, had that prob for years before starting noresitherone, stopped them at xmas after 2 years and- nothing. still no AF yet! hmmm, not sure if thats good but saves me money!

Norethisterone made me psychotic - the best thing about having my op done was that I could stop taking it!!

It might be worth you asking your GP for though, Agalch; works brilliantly for stopping never-ending periods. They don't like you taking it long-term unless it's been recommended by a gynaecologist but it might keep you sane until you can see someone.

I'm just thankful that dh has health insurance and I could get mine sorted out quickly.

All of you who are having/have had problems - it really makes me wonder how many women have "women's problems" - I never hear of these things in RL and that makes me sad, there really shouldn't be such a stigma attached to it. I am fairly sure that if my Mum had any gynaecological problems, or if she knew of anyone else who did, she wouldn't tell me out of some sort of misplaced embarrassment. I really hope that I can be more open with dd than she ever was with me.

Anyway, have unsurprisingly gained 2.5lbs this week . I knew it was coming. My eating has been somewhat out of control. Funnily enough now the weigh-in has been a kind of cut off point - from this point on I will do better. I suppose that's the advantage of a slimming club, it gives you a place to start again every week.

My mum had problems when she was my age or younger - she only told me about them when she found out I was seeing the gynae.

I had to tell the girls at work what I was having done (nosy lot!) and several of them have had problems too. It's obviously more "normal" than I thought it was ... but no-one talks about it. I agree with you, Tiger - I intend to be far more open about these things with my daughter than my mother was with me.

New week, new start hey, Tiger?

Well after the peri-menopause thread, I actually asked my mum about her experience of menopause etc, and she couldn't remember having any symptoms. Which I guess is good, and bodes well(-ish) for me, with any luck. Not something I'd talked to her about before. Also asked her when my periods started, and she couldn't remember any more than I could.

Can I start again WWB

(joking)

I am guessing that at 59 my Mum has been through the menopause but she has never, ever discussed anything like that with me. Obviously she can't have been too symptomatic otherwise I would probably have noticed

My darling, if you want to start again that's always OK by me!

Oh, and don't assume your mother has already passed menopause.

My mother was 69 before she had hers ...

I remember very well when my periods started, Jackie ... it was my ninth birthday (nice present )!).

9th birthday! blimey! I was 12 (iirc), at boarding school, didn't tell my Mum until I was at home for the summer and bled on my bedsheets, so I had to

I'd better stay put WWB, otherwise when I finally shed that 6 stone it will look like I have only lost 2lbs that week and that's it

My mother's response was "Oh, you know what that is, don't you?" (er, no; she'd never told me). She left a packet of towels in my bedroom and that was the extent of her telling me what was going on. I nearly died when it happened again; I thought it was once and once only!

Hence me always being open with dd about such things.

God it all sounds so familiar

My Mum said "I suppose you already know what this is all about don't you?" (I was lucky I suppose, I knew all about it from my cousin and it had been covered at school) and bought me one pack of sanitary towels to last the whole of the next term .

When I was about 10, my cousin gave me a couple of her sanitary towels - I swapped one with a friend for a day of wearing her trainer bra

Blimey, she sounds about as good as mine!

I was lucky in that I had a really nice teacher at the time, and when it happened a second time he was shrewd enough to realise that something was wrong and had a chat with me about it. He told me what was happening and he bought me a book about puberty as well, bless him.

Love the idea of swapping STs for a trainer bra ...