me again! keeping you guys updated!
i had my colcoscopy today.....no where near as bad as a pap smear test! All they do is put a small metal thing up there and then put a swab of an acid in your cervix to make the abnormal cells white, then they look at it with a microscope. He said because I'm so young it's only very smallI have to go have an operation in two weeks to remove it though.
They're going to cut off a very small part of my cervix to be able to get into it in order to burn the cells off. They also take a small part of the cells to get tested. It takes about twenty minutes, and you're asleep the whole time. He said I'll probably have a pain similar to period pain for a couple of days though.
The gyno said that he does the operation once a week, so it must be pretty common. He did say that I was very unfortunate at my age to get a high grade lesion but it does happen and that's how people get cancer in their thirties.
I'm a bit apprehensive about the vaccine as well, but apparantly it's free until you're 26, so I have a while to think about it. The guy said that it only protects you against 70% of the strains of the papaloma virus though.
