Re: STD: HSIL on Pap Test
From: T. Lyons MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:20:35 -0500 (CDT)
Message posted on T. Lyons, MD behalf by: Hope, Fibroid and Women’s
Health Forum Moderator
This abnormality is caused by a virus (HPV specifically). You must
have been unlucky enough to have happened upon one of the bad acting
varieties of this virus and it can progress. You need to get in and
have the culposcopy done now. Period doesn't effect the culposcopy so
go and get it done. Also if you can't get to your gyn to talk find
one you can talk to. The most important part of this is to continue
follow-up - PAP smears, treatment, etc. If you do this you shouldn't
have to worry about this being any kind of real problem for you. This
should not effect your future fertility or any thing of the kind. Get
cupol then follow-up!
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T. Lyons, MD
ATLANTA, GA, Sightline of Atlanta
http://www.thomasllyons.com
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At Mon, 17 Mar 2008, ANON wrote:
>
>I've searched through the forums and Google, and still have yet to find
>an answer. Not to mention my OBGYN is a difficult man to get in touch
>with with my work schedule. Anyway, I'm a 19 year old girl and I had a
>papsmear about six months ago show LSIL. I had the colposcopy done and
>upon examination, my OBGYN said he did not see any abnormal cells. Three
>months ago I went for a follow-up (six months after my original pap) and
>he gave me a repeat pap and this time the resultes were HSIL. I'm
>supposed to have my colpo. this Thursday, but have to cancel becuase of
>my period. I've had bleeding all last week too, so naturally I'm
>freaking out becuase I know one of the symptoms of cervical cancer is
>abnormal bleeding. But I also know that if I had cancer, the pap test
>would have shown cancer, not HSIL. I guess my question would be how
>fast can it progress to cervical cancer? I've heard ten years and I've
>heard as little as three (thanks Google!) so I'm just very confused. And
>I would like to know how my OBGYN saw no abnormal cells with the LSIL
>and now the cells came back, only worse. I'm getting scared. I already
>have PCOS and Endometriosis, and now this. I've had a pap done every
>year since I was 14. How does that progress so fast???
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