HPV and abnormal Pap
Posted By: sm on 2006-02-01
In Reply to: Call back and ask a few questions sm - Karen S.
For the most part cervical cancer is not hereditary. Something like 90% of abnormal Paps are caused by HPV and while it is an STD not to run home to kill your husband, that HPV is so common that the only way to guarantee not getting it is being a virgin and marrying a virgin (or monogamous relationship). Most people never show any symptoms and can have it for years without knowing. I got results back 2 years ago saying I was positive for HPV and had an abnormal Pap. I freaked out, too thinking I might have cervical cancer. Fortunately all my MT experience has taught me that even if I did cervical cancer is just about the most treatable of any kind of cancer if you catch it early, so I had that comfort. I had a colposcopy with biopsy which came back positive for low-grade changes (they call this precancer, not cancer) and elected to have cryotherapy since I was a borderline age for cell changes clearing themselves up. Just a simple little procedure that took 15 minutes in the doctor's office and I've had nothing but normal Paps since.
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Can anyone calm my fears? My PCP just called and said that my Pap smear came back abnormal and he is going to refer me to see a gynecologist for further examination. He told me that this does NOT mean I have cancer but I am still worried. Although I can't think of anyone in my family with cervical cancer, cancer is strongly positive in my family.
My PCP told me that his nurse would call and get me an appointment and then call and let me know when it would be.
I've had 2 abnormal (sm)
One showed abnormal squamous cells, one showed abnormal endometrial cells. Both times I had to have an endometrial biopsy and both times they were negative. I worried so much the first time that I made myself sick, so I know how you feel. But really, it is most probably nothing. I have a lot of cancer in my family too, although not cervical.
I simply said, let me know if it is abnormal.
Rather than that, she played a little game. Editing and e-mailing me my chest x-ray report. Geesh ladies.
Had I been asked, I would have simply put off responding until the person had the results from their physician. No big deal.
No, a bit short yeah but not abnormal - sm
I just added a new account to my group of work, and have to do full QA for 5 days; then will be off pending approval. Obviously will submit work if necessary after that but I won't have to send in every report anymore. I have 6 years experience. I am still not done my 5 days, only did 3 days so far as I have been really, really busy with my other accounts and this is one I am to go to when I have nothing better to do basically, so it will not be often most likely. But need to get in there and finish up my QA days, 2 to go, and get off of that myself.
I found out my mammogram was abnormal after 3 weeks!
I assumed the doctor's office would call me if it were. It wasn't until I got a letter from the radiologist 3 weeks later that I learned it was abnormal. I called my doctor's office and the secretary assured me that they had called me and had left a message. I asked the secretary what number she had and she kept saying, "tell me what your phone number is and I'l see if it is what we have." I asked to speak to her boss and she found that they hadn't even been sent the report. I was LIVID! That secretary disappeared within a few days. I also brought the matter up with administration at the hospital where the test was performed. There was a "hurry up offense" to get me in for an ultrasound and I didn't even have to sit in the waiting room. Fortunately for me everything was okay.
No excuses. 30 day TAT. Absurd.
Hope everything works out okay for you.
Me too, periods through 5 months. I know, TOTALLY ABNORMAL! nm
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