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vaginapaginahas anyone here ever been diagnosed with CIN 2? it means abnormal cells on your cervix. i have it. i had to get a colposcopy (microscopy thing) and two biopsies taken the other day. i wrote about it in my lj, here and <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?itemid=11423244&nc=3" target="blank>here</a>.
if anyone has been through it, what happened after the biopsy? i get the results in a month. i'm a little worried.
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Date: 2001-09-27 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-09-27 06:14 pm (UTC)cervical dysplasia mailing list (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cervical_dysplasia)
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Date: 2001-09-27 05:41 pm (UTC)If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at jaclyn@inkshop.org.
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Date: 2001-09-27 05:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-09-27 05:54 pm (UTC)It deals with your situation specifically and the future outcomes.
Don't be scared. Many women have abnormal paps. Many women are in your position right now.
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/1680.50763 (http://my.webmd.com/content/article/1680.50763)
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Date: 2001-09-27 05:58 pm (UTC)Re:
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Date: 2001-09-27 06:27 pm (UTC)it's not at all painless, like the info says, but it also wasn't as horrible as i'd made up my mind it was gonna be.
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Date: 2001-09-27 06:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-09-27 08:37 pm (UTC)next stop, cone biopsy. woooo.
Been there
Date: 2001-09-27 06:03 pm (UTC)However, the nice thing about cervical stuff is that whatever's growing tends to grow slowly, so given that you've caught it now, you're in good shape.
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Date: 2001-09-27 07:34 pm (UTC)well, the leep does sound a lot better than the cone biopsy.
the psychological effect is bizarre isn't it? i'd never thought about my cervix before but know i realise how important she is! the thought of something being wrong with it makes me feel quite unsettled when i think about it.
hence, i am trying not to think about it too much.
thanks for your response, everyone here has been so nice!
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Date: 2001-09-27 06:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-09-27 07:30 pm (UTC)thanks.
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Date: 2001-09-27 07:36 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2001-09-28 10:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-09-28 08:24 pm (UTC)I was told by my doc that HPV is the only thing that causes it .. which really upset me because I had only ever been with one man/person at that time who was my current fiance at the time (now husband).
Through research I found out that there are several factors that cause Cin2 and that HPV isn't the only cause.
Hubby and I both got tested and found out that it wasn't HPV. As best we can figure it was caused by concentrated carcenogentics in his sperm because he was a heavy smoker. We weren't using condoms as our main birthcontrol method and I was being exposed to his sperm.
I had the colposcopy ... and yes it does hurt! But it wasn't the end of the world and my results were minimal. Four Pap's later i have been given a clear bill of health.
HPV is not curible ... and does not go away on it's own. Just wanted to make that point clear.
You and your partner should be tested and go from there.... it often goes unnoticed in men.
Best of luck to you ....
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Date: 2001-09-29 08:49 am (UTC)First, a little on HPV. The first pap smear I ever had was "bad." They told me it was "probably" HPV. I've never been tested. However, it is true that most people have some form of it, and that, even if you test negative, you may have it. My understanding of HPV (and I used to volunteer for Planned Parenthood, so I've read up on it pretty thoroughly) is that there are dozens of different strains. Many just sit around in people's bodies and don't bug them at all. Some cause warts. And others cause cervical cancer. Women tend to get it from men, who tend to not be bothered by it. (Even with warts, men can kind of hang out, all warty, and be fine, in many, many cases. Women aren't quite that, erm, lucky.) Getting or giving HPV is something that happens ALL THE TIME without anybody ever knowing it. Get two naked people close together, and whammo, you could be sharing your HPV strains. My partner at the time felt horribly guilty because he was the guy with all the experience in the relationship. But it's possible that I may have even gotten it from my mom when she was giving birth. Most people who've had intimate relationships with more than one person (or with even with one person who fits that description) even have more than one strain of the stuff. It's possible to come up HPV free, but not much likely in these times.
So, longwindedly, HPV is common, and nothing to be terribly worked up about. It's the cervical abnormality that's really the issue.
I had two bad pap smears over the course of six months. Eventually they had me in for the battery of colposcopy and biopsies. I think my CIN was up to 3-4.
I had cryosurgery (an alternative to LEEP). They get in there and freeze those nasty cells off. It did hurt, sometimes pretty badly, and it took a few minutes. (Luckily, there was a nurse there who let me squeeze her hand like mad.)
But it worked. I've never had a bad pap since.
It took about a month to heal. I didn't hurt after the first day or two, however.
At first, they made me go in once every three months for a check-up pap smear. After a year of good cells, I went down to every six months. I still get nervous, but I'm up to one pap smear a year now, which is damn exciting. :)
If you have any questions, just lemme know. I freaked out when it happened to me, and I wish I'd had someone out there to let me know that all roads didn't end in horrible STDS or girl-part-eating cancer. :)
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Date: 2001-10-01 09:11 am (UTC)And I didn't realize you were still in the throws of it (though I think that once you've had a series of bad paps, you're always kind of going through it. Every time I go for one, I get into a little quiet panic, and then I hope like mad that I'll get the paper slip in the mail, rather than the phone call...)
If you need anything, lemme know. Yup. Including Seattle info...
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Date: 2001-10-01 09:19 am (UTC)yep, you do.
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Date: 2004-10-01 06:30 pm (UTC)I'm a bit fearful 'cause I need a colpscopy biopsy done in about 2 weeks and I was wondering what is the cost of the procedure (minus insurance, I can't qualify).
Thank you.
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