first colposcopy!
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vaginapaginajust wanted to write this in case it would be helpful for anyone with a colposcopy coming up.
Well, it's finally over. For one reason or another my first colposcopy appointment kept getting delayed but today i finally went in to have it done. I was soooooo nervous beforehand. Seriously. for some reason i'm super squeamish about pap smears and the like and considering this was supposed to take longer, yeah. i was a nervous wreck. It didn't help that after I had checked in and met with the nurse's assistant, i had to wait 30 min. in the room mulling over the situation in my head. I took a valium and advil beforehand to make everything a bit easier :).
First the doctor came in and went over all of my previous test results. All negative except for high risk hpv. She explained the procedure and discussed the various follow up scenarios regarding the outcome of the tissue samples she'd take. Let me just say that my doc was amazing. she was so enthusiastic and knowledgeable, it made the whole thing easier.
She told me to lie down and in went the speculum. I HATE this part. speculums are always so uncomfortable for me. After that was in she started complimenting my "amazing muscles" which just made me laugh and helped to distract me a bit. She then put some solution (vinegar i believe?) on my cervix to highlight the abnormal cells. The vinegar was not too fun. It stung more than I was expecting. I then had to wait for a minute and a half for the vinegar to do it's job. She didn't really walk me through the rest of what she was doing but I know she took some tissue samples off the parts of my cervix that had turned white. This wasn't nearly as bad as i was expecting. She then put some solution on where the tissue samples had come from to stop the bleeding. Apparently something like what men use if they get cuts while shaving. Everything went faster than i thought it would and although it was very uncomfortable, in hindsight the whole procedure wasn't that bad.
after the speculum and everything was out she drew a picture of where the spots on my cervix had been. I was a little sore at this point but nothing too terrible. She gave me a pad for any bleeding and discharge (yay) and that was that. oh and i got my first gardasil shot! might as well be protected against strains i don't have. I'm so glad it's over!
Well, it's finally over. For one reason or another my first colposcopy appointment kept getting delayed but today i finally went in to have it done. I was soooooo nervous beforehand. Seriously. for some reason i'm super squeamish about pap smears and the like and considering this was supposed to take longer, yeah. i was a nervous wreck. It didn't help that after I had checked in and met with the nurse's assistant, i had to wait 30 min. in the room mulling over the situation in my head. I took a valium and advil beforehand to make everything a bit easier :).
First the doctor came in and went over all of my previous test results. All negative except for high risk hpv. She explained the procedure and discussed the various follow up scenarios regarding the outcome of the tissue samples she'd take. Let me just say that my doc was amazing. she was so enthusiastic and knowledgeable, it made the whole thing easier.
She told me to lie down and in went the speculum. I HATE this part. speculums are always so uncomfortable for me. After that was in she started complimenting my "amazing muscles" which just made me laugh and helped to distract me a bit. She then put some solution (vinegar i believe?) on my cervix to highlight the abnormal cells. The vinegar was not too fun. It stung more than I was expecting. I then had to wait for a minute and a half for the vinegar to do it's job. She didn't really walk me through the rest of what she was doing but I know she took some tissue samples off the parts of my cervix that had turned white. This wasn't nearly as bad as i was expecting. She then put some solution on where the tissue samples had come from to stop the bleeding. Apparently something like what men use if they get cuts while shaving. Everything went faster than i thought it would and although it was very uncomfortable, in hindsight the whole procedure wasn't that bad.
after the speculum and everything was out she drew a picture of where the spots on my cervix had been. I was a little sore at this point but nothing too terrible. She gave me a pad for any bleeding and discharge (yay) and that was that. oh and i got my first gardasil shot! might as well be protected against strains i don't have. I'm so glad it's over!
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