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Re: Confused!From: Andrea (anonymous@obgyn.net)Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:32:56 -0600 (CST)
At Thu, 31 Dec 1998, lauren wrote: > >Andrea, > >I'm not a doctor, but if your doctor is assuring you that there is no >risk in having a biopsy, then why not have it? > >Pap smears can come back with false negatives or false I appreciate your response, but I did read on the Women's Health Board that there is a slight risk to a pregnancy if a biopsy is taken during pregnancy. My last pap came back totally normal, it was the one before that that came back AGCUS. The two before that were normal too. I just don't want to put my baby at risk for any reason, and even if I did have cervical cancer I would try to carry the baby as far as I could without treatment until the baby was born. I realize all the risks involved with waiting, but biopsy's turn out to be negative all the time after an abnormal pap. positives. That's >why, I think, the doctors do them so often. I once had an abnormal pap, >low level, but at the colposcopy, by doctor couldn't find anything >abnormal either. Still, he did a biopsy. Turned out normal except for >an infection that was treated with, I believe, clindamycin. That did a >lot for my piece of mind. I went on to have a baby who was 9 days late, >so obviously no damage was done to my cervix. > >I don't think that a biopsy shows only cancer either (correct me if I'm >wrong). You could turn out to have an infection of some sort that >DEFINITELY needs resolving in order to be more assured of carrying a >healthy baby to term. In my case, as noted above, I had an infection. >Infections can cause pre-term labor. > >I am interested to hear what the doctors have to say, but I think you >should have the biopsy. > >At Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Andrea wrote: >> >>In May of 1997 after having my first child, I had cryosurgery due to >>mild to moderate dysplasia. I went in every 3 month of repeat paps. >>First two came back normal, last one this past August came back AGCUS - >>not ASCUS. Needless to say I was concerned how this could happen having >>two normal paps just 3 months apart. Anyway, a month after the pap came >>back AGCUS, I got pregnant. During this time I had to transfer doctors. >>My new doctor after reading my lab report for the AGCUS pap decided to >>do a repeat pap smear. This one came back completely normal two weeks >>or so ago. Even though this pap came back normal this doctor wanted to >>do a colposcopy, which I went along with. During the colposcopy, even >>though she couldn't find anyting suspicious, she wanted to do a biopsy >>just to make sure. She told me there was no risk to the baby having a >>biopsy. I have heard that there is a slight risk of miscarriage having >>biopsy's during pregnancy, who is right? She took a picture of my >>cervix, told me it looked perfectly normal and healthy. I didn't >>understand why she still wanted to do a biopsy after having my pap come >>back normal. I refused to have the biopsy since I am almost 20 weeks >>pregnant, and had my pap come back normal. My doctor got really upset, >>made me sign a paper releasing her of any fault if I or the baby end up >>dying because of cervical cancer. I do not think I have cervical >>cancer. My last pap came back normal, my cervix looked healthy and she >>couldn't find any abnormal cells on it. Did I do the right think in >>refusing the biopsy? I told her I would go along with the biopsy after >>the baby was born if my paps came back abnormal then. Is this normal >>procedure during a pregnancy to have biopsy's taken? I am very confused! >>Would appreciate any advice. Thanks.
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