Cervical Cancer

[hlgraham]

I had my first abnormal pap in sept 07 we did a colp, and it came back fine they said to repeat my pap in three months, now i have and it was so painful and its high grade dysplesia. i have to go have a leep now. does that sound like invasive cancer. for it to move that fast from normal to high grade in three months. i also have endometrisos. i just want them to take it all out and i am only 27 years old. i think i have finally found a dr willing to do it but first things firts, he says we have to take care of this. he said there may be a tumor in my cervix. where is he getting that from. I read about invasive cancer and I do have horrible back pain. all the time. i have to sleep with a heating pad almost every night. i have so much anxiety i can't take this any more. i want to bring a lawsuit against my first dr who actually told me to go back to my primary because they couldnt figure out what was wrong with me. it never occured to them that the endo could be inbedded in my uterus. idoits. any comments might help me sleep tonight

[Helenwulfgar]

I know this is very late- seeing how you posted this two months ago. However, I finally found a story I can relate to. I'm 26. I've had ONE sexual partner in my life whom I met just 2 years ago (he, admittedly, had many more partners than that). I have regular pap smears. 6 months ago, I was diagnosed with an HSIL and after biopsies was told that since I was young, didn't smoke, didn't have HIV, only had one partner (who I had since left), and was healthy, I could just wait it out. 6 months later I go in for a retest and it's cancer.
I was furious.
Unfortunately, I'm also a lawyer and I know just how difficult bringing a lawsuit on these sorts of things are. Despite the media coverage on medical lawsuits, they are not easy to bring and to even get anywhere, you need to have provable damages of at least six figures. And in the end, when you're young and otherwise healthy except for these gyno problems, most doctors are within medically acceptable limits to just say "we can't tell", etc.
It's very frustrating, aggravating, enraging, and every other word I can come up with, I assure you.