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Leg Cramps & Foot Pain after Treatment
Anyone else out there with undiagosed foot pain and leg cramps? janeyb asked that question on April 1, under the heading "Stage 3", and received several answers. Is this a known side effect of treatment? Is there any relief?
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abnormal paps
my last two past have come back abnormal but the doctors told me that it was due to having a yeast infection. After veiwing several different website containing info on cervical cancer, reading stories of people having several pap smears come back abnormal than finally being diagnosised will cancer. Maybe I'm just being…
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confused with diagnosis
I have been diagnosed woth moderate squamous epithelial dysplasia (CIN II);acute and chronic cystic cervicitis, and benign endocervical glandular epithelium. I had a leep procedure performed and feel ok, but, my dr. says this is not cancer but when I look up CIN II, it often reads as if it is cancer????? Does anyone have…
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Help eliminate cancer
I am looking for people in the Los Angeles area interested in supporting ACS in a Relay for Life event. I am a recent survivor looking for others to join me in the fight. email me at CelebrateLife@sbcglobal.net
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Help eliminate cancer
I am looking for people in the Los Angeles area interested in supporting ACS in a Relay for Life event. I am a recent survivor looking for others to join me in the fight. email me at CelebrateLife@sbcglobal.net
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Help eliminate cancer
I am looking for people in the Los Angeles area interested in supporting ACS in a Relay for Life event. I am a recent survivor looking for others to join me in the fight. email me at CelebrateLife@sbcglobal.net
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Help eliminate cancer
I am looking for people in the Los Angeles area interested in supporting ACS in a Relay for Life event. I am a recent survivor looking for others to join me in the fight.
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LEEP procedure
I just had a LEEP on Nov. 12th. Nothing was said about not taking a bath for 2 weeks, only no sex or tampons. I took a bath the next day. Worried I should call the Dr., but last time it took 3 days to get to talk to the nurse. Any suggestions.
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awaiting biopsy results
I am 32. I have had my third abnormal pap since 1999. I was told this last one was high grade. The Dr. did a biopsy on 3 areas that he said showed abnormal. Now, I wait 2 weeks to go back and find out. I had things going on that I now realize were symptoms. I bled after my paps. I noticed an odor lately but attributed to…
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chemotherapy
Hi, Im getting ready to start chemo again next week and I am scared to death. I will be taking a combination of taxol and carbonplatin. I was wondering if anyone has taken those and if it really makes you sick and if there are real bad side effects with it? I also have to go have a port put in my arm due to the fact my…
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cont. problems after treatment
After having a radical hystorectomy, chemo and radiation treatment, (last treatment was May 21, 2001)I still continue to have diaherria and have to go to the bathroom continuously (I almost feel like I'm pregnant again, to bad I know that's impossible), is anyone else having or had this problem?
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New to the group
I am new here and just wanted to chat with someone who has been where I am... surviving
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glassy cell adenocarcinoma
Would like to talk to someone that has Glassy Cell type. Can not seem to find much information on this type of cancer.....
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A question for after treatment
I was diagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer February 28, 2000. I am now in remission after radiation and chemo. I still have some health problems like kidneys that only function at 30% of normal and a weak bladder. I did not have a hyterectomy. I do have a question. I know that all of the radiation (both internal and…
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Still Clean
I was diagnosed with cervical cancer at 33. I had to have an D&C, IVP & a C-Scan. The Dr gave me 2 choices, radiation or surgery. I chose the surgery and still had to have the radiation. So far I have been clean for 9 years. My oldest sister had a biopsy and was dianosed with colon cancer this past Feb, they rushed her…
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need support
i am 22 years old and have stage 4 cervical cance, they don't give me very long--is anyone else going throught this--or anyone else my age or older--can't write long have no finger nails
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young adult fiction.
hi. i am currently writing a novel & i need some help. the main character (chloe) befriends her new next door neighbor- a woman w/ cervical cancer. the woman is 29. i was wondering if you guys could explain to me a little more about cervical cancer... symptoms... emotional state... treatment. i would really appreciate your…
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relapse
Has anyone ever had a relapse? I was out shopping today and started bleeding. I have been in remission for about 10 months
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surviving cervical cancer
Hi, my name is April, I am 32 and was diagnosed with cervical cancer when I was 21. Had bioposies done and came back stage 4. Had laser surgery done and so far things are okay. This was all done in about 3 weeks time. Nothing showed up when I had a pap about a month or so before my son was born but after the 6 week checkup…
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carcinoma in situ
Hi, I hope that someone can help me, I am not sure if I am even in the right place,considering my doctor said I no longer have the cancer since he took out my cervix. I had just had a pap done before my scheduled hysterectomy. It came back off, and he said that since he was taking out my cervix anyway they would biopsy it…
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After Cone Bioposy be Vigilant
I had a cone biopsy in 1987 (at 34) that was both diagonistic and curative. So my ob/gyn said. Each year after that I had a Paps and every few years a mammogram. Had an easy menopause in 1994, no trouble, so I figured I was healthy. In late 1998 I was diagnosed with stage 2B cervical cancer, just a few months after my last…
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ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT-CERVICAL CANCER
WOULD LIKE ANY INFO ON A TREATMENT WHICH INVOLVES NO FLOUR,NO SUGAR, NO MEAT, AND SEEDS, ALONG WITH B-17? A PHYSCIAN IN CALIFORNIA IS THE ADVOCATE-WOULD LIKE IS NAME OR ANY RELAVANT INFO-THANKS SO MUCH
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Long term effects of radiation
More or less 6 months after completing estensive radiation i had to have an illiostomy. About 6 months later I had some reconstructive work done on the colon and am about to have the illiostomy taken down, YEH!!! BUT, as things go, in January i developed hematuria and that magnified into hemoragic cystitis (excessive…
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Cervical Cancer and Infertility
Hi. I hope you can learn an important lesson from what happened to me. Three months after my second marriage in 1993, I was diagnosed with cervical cancer. The oncologist insisted on doing a laporoscopy to make sure I didn't have any other damage that could prohibit me from becoming pregnant. She was also supposed to do…
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God has Healed Me
I thank God for healing me. my famiy for supporting me
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Newly Diagnosed
After not having a pap smear for 10 years I have just had the results come back with cancer cells present. I have made an appointment with a specialist for a biopsy and diagnosis, and since I had waited so long I am terrified that it is going to be not such good news. Does anyone have any suggestions to help me keep my…
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Slow Test Results?
I was just diagnosed with moderate displaysia. It took nearly 4 weeks to get the results of my PAP back. The Dr. called me to schedule an appointment right away because she felt it was very important to begin treatment immediately. If she had such a sense of urgency, why the heck did the lab take 4 weeks to look at my PAP?…
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INFERTILITY AND CERVICAL CANCER
Okay everyone out there. I have searched high and low on this resource network and I can find nothing about infertility and cancer. Does anyone have any suggestions such as books, support groups, whatever. We all know someone or we wouldn't be here now, right? I'm looking for hope and answers. Any info would help.
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New to the board
My mom has just been diagnosed with uterine cancer. She lives in Oklahoma.
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Please respond. I am freaking out...
I just finished treatment for early stage breast cancer and went in for my annual pap in July. They called a month later to say I have a "low grade squamous intraepithelial lesion." Do I need to have another test done and do the colposcopy and or a biopsy? What is the normal course of treatment? I can't believe now this.…