A girly issue

[BuFfY]

Um just to give an update. I had my follow up today.
Still waiting for some of the results but what came back was all good. I am pretty much all good.
I am most probably going to have surgery but have to wait for the results to come back to make my final decision. He gave me the option of having surgery or waiting til November and having another thingy the same as last monday. And that hurt pretty bad.. and I am thinking getting the cells removed completely will mean I am at less risk of anything else bad happening.
So yeah... There is a high chance there will be lil baby buffy's running around one day... Like the best news I have ever heard!!

Thank you to everyone for the comments in the thread, PMs and emails... means SO much!

[crashe]

Um just to give an update. I had my follow up today.
Still waiting for some of the results but what came back was all good. I am pretty much all good.
I am most probably going to have surgery but have to wait for the results to come back to make my final decision. He gave me the option of having surgery or waiting til November and having another thingy the same as last monday. And that hurt pretty bad.. and I am thinking getting the cells removed completely will mean I am at less risk of anything else bad happening.
So yeah... There is a high chance there will be lil baby buffy's running around one day... Like the best news I have ever heard!!

Thank you to everyone for the comments in the thread, PMs and emails... means SO much!

Cheers for the update. Glad to hear all is going ok.
All the best with the op if and when you decide to go ahead with it.
Awwwwww a little BuFfY running around one day aye......

[Scorpygirl]

Awesome news Buffy!! Sounds like its going to be a positive outcome!!

[Edbear]

Awesome news Buffy!! Sounds like its going to be a positive outcome!!

Wot she said!

[MyGSXF:Me]

Yep.. great news Buffy!!!!

REGULAR yearly checkups are vital!! One year I was fine.. the next year.. I had a Cin3 smear.. the BAAAAD one was rushed in for emergency surgery to remove the whole end of my cervix. Spent a horrid week, with heavy bleeding & was generally very uncomfortable!!

Have been clear since!!! but hey.. I would choose to go through THAT experience again, any day!!! rather than what could have been....

Take care chick!! & wishing you all the very best!!

Jen

PS: another place for women to go to get info, etc.. is their local "Womens House".. I would think that most towns would have something like that anyway!! I get my smears done there.. for free!

[Nasty]

Buffy .. all the best with the decision ... a colposcopy is defiantely not the nicest thing .... whatever decision you make is the right one for you

[Sanx]

My other half can recommend a specialist on the shore called Bernie Brenner. Has a surgery on Shakespeare Road. She's been to see him a couple of times and has always come away thoroughly impressed with how professional and comfortable (all things considered) he made her feel throughout.

Good luck Buffy - I hope everything goes smoothly for you.

[007XX]

Awsome news chick! All the best..
Procrastination is the worst thing I am told with cancer, and you are tackling this bastard thing head on...

Good on you mate. Got my fingers and toes crossed for you.

[oldrider]

Hey girls.

Not quite sure how to word this.

As most of you will know as a woman we have a few medical issues/procedures we have to deal with throughout our lives. One of the main being our smear tests.
What I want to say is.. please please please go yearly! And if you have daughters or sisters or friends... make them go... especially if they are 18-24 as there is a high percentage in this age range who aren't getting smears regularly and are at a high risk of getting cervical cancer. My doctor said to me that even though it is suggested to do it every three years, it is your body and your cervix so you should look after it and get it checked yearly so patterns can be identified and things can be caught early.

I know it is a totally horrible experience but you honestly don't want to go through what I am because you left it for 3 years instead of 1. Is amazing how much can happen inside your body in such a short amount of time!

Hey girls, forget the smear test, I have perfected the "taste test" and I do it for free, in fact, I will even shout a free dinner, wine, song, oh the list goes on!

Because of popular demand, by appointment only this month! Dreamin again! John.

Edit: OK OK joke in bad taste! (oops excuse the punn) Sorry Buffy hope evrything is Ok for you. Cheers john.

[Curious_AJ]

good to hear all went well that you got back.. and if you have surgery, AJ will give you muchly big sun flower bouquet!

[The Pastor]

oh good news for a change eh? so glad that ur 95% awesomer now .. if that makes sence.

[Magua]

Great news, Buffy.

[BuFfY]

Thanks again everyone! My dad is still stressing out majorily and told my grandparents yesterday (well i am assuming anyway) because I got a text from them (yes a text from my grandparents!) saying how precious I am to them!!

[Hawkeye]

Buffy .. all the best with the decision ... a colposcopy is defiantely not the nicest thing .... whatever decision you make is the right one for you

Had to read that a second time there Nasty. It looked far too much like a Colaposcopy. And I dread to think what one of those are.

Good luck with whatever decision you make Buffy.

[judecatmad]

You guys have it sweet, you're so lucky.

5 times more men die from Prostate Cancer than women die from Cervical Cancer ... and there's no test, free or otherwise, to detect it. Once you've got it, you're history.

Grub, that attitude is WHY so many men die of Prostate cancer. There ARE diagnostic tools for the condition. No, you can't stop it happening, but you can catch it early and then you can manage it.

There's the PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) blood test and the DRE (digital rectal examination - doc's finger up your arse basically. No it's not nice, and it's embarrassing, but if you think it's any worse than having a cold metal implement [speculum] closely resembling a Ford Cortina shoved up your fanny then you need to think again!). In combination, these 2 are a pretty good diagnostic combination for an abnormal Prostate.

Sometimes the PSA is up and there's nothing wrong - that's a good thing, at least you've been checked out. Sometimes the Prostate is enlarged and it's a benign condition - not so good cos it affects the ability to pee, but still not cancer and still treatable.

My father in law died of Prostate cancer at 69, 2 years after diagnosis. He was diagnosed with inoperable Prostate cancer after he finally went to his doc. He hadn't been able to pee properly for 18 months. He'd said he hadn't wanted someone prodding and poking around - so he effectively chose death. I'm still angry with him, 3 years after his death. We loved him so very much.

So when men turn around and say there's no diagnostic tool for Prostate cancer - you're right, once you have it, you have it. In the same way that once you have breast cancer, you have that. However, it's the 'how you manage it' that's important.

If caught early, you can live with Prostate cancer for the rest of your life and die of a totally unrelated cause ('old age' being preferable!). Many men do. However, if you leave it too late and the cancer has spread outside the Prostate, that's when you're buggered. But that only happens (generally) when you've not had regular check ups or you've ignored your symptoms.

I guess the message really is the same for everyone.

Girls - get your smears done regularly and do your breast examinations each month. And go for your mammograms every time you're called up. Neither are very pleasant, but both are better than having to deal with the long-term effects of advanced cancer.

And guys - get a PSA and DRE done every year after the age of 40, and check the testicles regularly for lumps (LOL, what am I saying? There's not a guy alive who doesn't do a testicle check at least every hour!!!)

All we can ever do is make sure we go to the doc if we are symptomatic - and let the docs do their stuff - and make sure we have the age-appropriate screening health checks to try and ensure we stay healthy, whilst not living in a state of paranoia.

There will always be people who suffer illnesses early in life, or whose screening checks came back with false negatives, or whose illnesses came on in-between the advised checks, or whose illness simply wasn't one that was able to be picked up by any tests until it was too late (like my mum's Pancreatic cancer) - that's the the way life goes sometimes. It's a shit, but that's life for ya.

Sorry to hijack your thread Buffy - I hope you're OK and making a good recovery xx