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nolib1966 said:

JUDEMO

I have never heard of SED rate but I am thankful your doctor saw an sign you had infflamation somewhere and you had a PAP test.

The sooner you can gt it done the better.  I am sure the time waiting for your July 1 appointment seems to drag but it will get here.

I went through it last year.  Pap done in September, D&C in October, Hysterectomy in November, and chemo started in December.

You will make it just keep busy, exercise, eat good, and have positive thoughts.  The stronger and healthier you are the better you operation will go.

You are not alone.  Please take care of yourself.

JS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JS,

Thanks for replying to me! SED rate is usually significant for some auto immune disease like RA (rheumatoid arthritis for ex) but I don't think it is specific for CA.  Oh well....at least it helped get me going in the right direction.  How are you doing now?

Thanks again!

JH

NoTimeForCancer said:

Judemo, I had atypical cells

Judemo, I had atypical cells on paps and irregular bleeding which caused my gyn to say "Let's find out what's going on".  She couldn't do the endometrial biopsy on me and decided on a D&C. I understand the endometrial biopsy couldn't be done on you but can they do a D&C?  Without knowing exactly what is going on it is hard to say without them doing a little more testing. 

As you may know, the CA125 is marker in your blood that they measure.  These range all over the place and isn't used as the sole reason to determine if someone has cancer or not.  As many of the women here will tell you, a cold or allergies can elevate it during their tests.  (I admit, I get a liitle hung up "having a good number" though myself )

I will say it is great to hear you were referred to a gyn oncologist.  If you should find you have a below the belt cancer, these specialists are the people you want on your team.

Thank you for sharing your info.  You know, there might be a chance that there won't be a problem in the uterus then, but who knows since she couldn't really get to it. Not sure then why she would want me to have a hysterectomy right away without knowing for sure.  regardless, I'm meeting the Gyn onc next week so we'll figure it out then.  Thanks again for replying and congrats on your good number!

JH

Toriahhh said:

Newly Diagnosed; new to the site

Hi all,

I'm 31, no children (I really want children), and I was diagnosed with uterine cancer on June 10th. After dealing with PCOS for 10 years,  I started having terribly heavy bleeding over a year ago.  20+ days of bleeding,  in a row. Severe anemia,  pain,  frustration, and more hormone treatments than I can count finally led my gyn to do a D&C with hysteroscopy 3 weeks ago. At my 1 week do follow up I got the news. I've met with the oncologist once and have my ultrasound scheduled for this Friday.  I'm nervous.  

Thanks for your reply and story. Let's just keep supporting each other.  I'm new to all of this as well.  I've always had irregular pap smears due to HPV and figured one day it might lead to something more serious.  I don't have kids either.  what is PCOS? I missed a year or two of going to the GYN for regular Pap smears so Im glad I finally went a month ago. What's crazy is there really isn't a test for Uterine CA. So, it can go undetected for some time, even after regular Pap smears.  Anyway, you hang in there ok? I hate this waiting, so being connected to this website is helpful! I just watched some videos on Utube about uterine CA and actually watched a real time laparoscopy!

till next time...