Hello guys.
I have a few concerns regarding abnormal smears and HPV.
I'm a 30-year-old woman and I live in London.
I have always attended my routine smears and for the last two years have been getting abnormal results (borderline changes). The advice was always to just keep attending my routine checks. Last year, I was given a referral for a colposcopy, which showed minor abnormalities, and was told to go back for a second colposcopy in a year's time. In the meantime I attended my routine smear at my GP's, which they said came back as normal ("They didn't call us from the hospital, so I think it's normal", which seemed pretty vague an answer if you ask me). A couple of months later my colposcopy was due. The doctor didn't want to visit me because he could see my history in the system and said my last smear was normal, so it would be a waste of time. He made me feel very uncomfortable for my insisting he visited me, and when he finally came to see me in the room he said: "Here is M, the one who's perfectly healthy bit wants to be visited all the same.", which I thought was grossly unprofessional, but anyway. Only a second later he was looking inside me with perplexity, and when I looked back and saw my cervix on the screen, it was clear even to myself there was something wrong with my cervix (a white patch and some reddish areas). Without even telling me, the doctor executed a biopsy. He then told me it was not cancer but there were abnormalities, results in a months time, thank you very much. I was left very perplexed. Later in the day, and to make matters more complicated, I had a positive result on a pregnancy test (had communicated to the doctor prior to the visit I might be pregnant as I'd been trying to conceive for over a year). My questions now are:
1)Will the biopsy affect the sticking of this pregnancy (had a miscarriage four months ago at six weeks)?
2)If a CIN is detected, can I get treatment (laser?, freezing?) during pregnancy?
3)If treatment is not undertaken during pregnancy, what is the rate of degeneration of a CIN?
4)Has anyone had a white patch on her cervix which did not turn out to be a CIN?
5)Do you think I need a second opinion? Is private healthcare my only alternative? If so, do you know any good doctors?
Thanks a lot for reading my long post and thanks anyone who's willing to share their own experiences or advices.
Cheers,
M