WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for November, 2000: Re: When is enough, enough???

Re: When is enough, enough???

From: CMM (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 3 Nov 2000 08:23:47 -0600 (CST)

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Unfortunately, I know that your response is true but a part of me has so much anxiety every 4 months, that I've been diagnosed with depression (of course, not all of it stems from this but a LARGE portion does). My mother died at 46 from kidney cancer. I'm 36, a single mom. Things like this weigh heavily on my mind and I just don't want to have paps every 4 months for the rest of my life. I am a nonsmoker, not sexually active.

At Thu, 2 Nov 2000, R. Daniel Braun, MD wrote: >
>At Thu, 2 Nov 2000, CMM wrote:
>>
>>Abnormal Pap History
>>
>>(dates are approximate)
>>8/97 ASCUS w/inflammation; suspicious of HGSIL
>>12/97 ASCUS BCC
>>2/98 Colposcopy; 1 punch biopsy; benign, ECC=AGUS
>>5/98 ASCUS w/inflammation, favor dysplasia; prescribed vaginal
>>antibiotic cream
>>6/98 Colposcopy, 6 punch biopsies; all benign, cervicitis, ECC=normal
>>7/98 LEEP performed; moderate and severe dysplasia, clear margins, AGUS
>>10/98 Normal
>>1/99 ASCUS w/inflammation BCC
>>4/99 ASCUS w/inflammation BCC
>>9/99 Normal
>>1/00 ASCUS w/inflammation BCC
>>4/00 ASCUS w/inflammation BCC
>>8/00 ThinPrep Pap – mild dysplasia
>>9/00 Colposcopy – mild dysplasia and moderate cervicitis, ECC=normal
>>
>>So when do I need to stop worrying? When should I opt for treatment
>>versus the terrible stress of worrying every 4 months about abnormal
>>paps? I'm switching insurance companies and don't know their protocol
>>for abnormal paps. I feel like a HUGE gray cloud has been hanging over
>>my head for too long...
>>Thanks for listening and answering.
>
>As long as you keep getting the smears and the treatment, you have very
>littl risk of developing cancer of the cervix. It can continue for a
>long time. As long as you keep going in, you can quit worrying. If you
>start ignoring it and not going in, then WORRY.
>
>RDB
>
>--
>R.Daniel Braun, MD FACOG FOG
>
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>**Thank you for your understanding ;-)
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