Monday, March 7, 2011
my health/ the importance of women's health
I went in to the clinic for a routine 6week post partum appointment. I felt healthy and full of life after being blessed with such beautiful children and a wonderful husband in my life. As we all know at your routine postpartum visit you have a papsmear done. Yes I know one of the worst test we women have to do.well I have never had a abnormal papsmear so I thought hey I'm done for a year. I received a call from my doctor and she said that my pap had came back abnormal. My heart was racing and I didn't know what to say what to think. She said I need to make an appointment for a biopsy of the cells. So I went in two days after the call. The doctor then told me that results would be in in a week. This was the longest and worst week of my life! I called in exactly a week after my biopsy only to find out some of the cells where high grade precancer and the other spots where inflamation that could be the process of turning into precancer:( the cause of my precancerous cells was an abnormal kind they said that only 3% of woman get this. Which she explained the other cause of cervical cancer is HPV. But I tested Negative for HPV. She also said if left untreated it could spread and in 30% of the woman that have this is actually turn to cancer. I have to have a LEEP procedure to remove these cells from my cervix. I will have to be sedated for the surgery. After surgery I will see the doctor at 1week,then 1month, then every 3months for a year then every 6months for 2years and if no precancer comes back I move up to one papsmear a year! So I cannot stress how important it is for us women to get papsmears done!
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