Cervical Dysplasia

[livingwith]

I’m a 20 year old college student and in October of 2007 I got the call from my doctor saying I had abnormal pap results and I needed to schedule a colposcopy. I had no idea what any of this was, so of course I went straight to Google and freaked myself out. I automatically thought I had cancer and was very upset. After getting though the initial hysteria, I educated myself further in the area I realized that it was a normal preventative procedure and all I kept hearing and reading was tha...Read the full article

[nikiz]

Hey. I've been through a very similar thing. I am 22 and a University student and I had the Leep done in September. As your doctor probably said, we are fairly young to be having to go through this now. The Leep wasn't too bad. The heeling part was what I was most worried about. And it did take me almost 2 months to stop bleeding/spotting. But I was a rare case. I was that 10% that the leep isn't successful with. So my doctor wanted to do a cone biopsy. I put that off until this January because I couldn't handle taking too much time off in the middle of a semester. The cone biopsy was painful. The Leep wasn't very painful at all. It felt like light cramps for the first two days. I have just found out that the cone biopsy was successful and I am free of cervical dysplasia It feels great to be done this chapter in my life.
So I hope your experience is better than mine, but I mine wasn't that bad either. And the HPV thing...there is always more than one thing that leads to cancer/precancerous cells. Keep your body healthy. Invest in some vitamins. I didn't when I had the Leep done, but I did when I got the cone biopsy done and I am healing much faster. Goodluck!!!