Hi all, very glad to find this site and hoping for some clarification...
Had a routine smear last July that thankfully came up negative but the nurse commented on 'quite a long polyp' and suggested I get it removed. She said it's very normal and usually nothing to worry about so I've only just gotten around to it today. Today the GP said it's actually very very small (contradicting the nurse's description) so there was little for her to get hold of, when I asked if it was worth removing it she said 'yes, to see what's going on down there'. She could only get tiny bits and said it wasn't like a normal polyp that protrudes from the cervix, it was actually on the face of the cervix 'at about 2 o'clock' and had no stalk which polyps usually have. She's sending it off for tests, results in two weeks, and said 'hopefully it's nothing to worry about.
So of course I'm worrying. However from the dreaded google I can't find anything much about growths on the cervix that aren't polyps or cysts (it wasn't fluid-filled so not a cyst). Do all polyps have stalks and come through the cervix? Can they shrink? Can cervical cancer present as a small growth on the face of the cervix, even though a smear is negative? I've had no irregular bleeding though I have a mirena coil so don't have periods any more. I have had some cramps in recent weeks that I've been to the GP about but was presuming they're recurrence of fibroids I've had removed previously arguing with the coil (have had a gynae referral for that). I'm 42. I'm just at a bit of a loss - I went in for a standard cervical polyp removal and came out being told it doesn't look like a standard polyp and 'hopefully' it's nothing to worry about...
Sorry for all the questions.
