WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for June, 2008: Re: GYNECOLOGIC: Cervical Dysplasia Treatment

Re: GYNECOLOGIC: Cervical Dysplasia Treatment

From: CLS (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:24:02 -0500 (CDT)

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I agree something needed to be done, although it did not warrant losing 4.5cm x 2.5cm x 1.9cm of my cervix. (The focal moderate dysplasia with the background of mild dysplasia was limited to the 9 o'clock position and did not extend .5cm in depth.) The cervicitis had turned into chronic cervicitis by the time this was done, so I know that had to be removed, but going nearly 2cm deep was not necessary, per any of the lab reports. Why do you say actual conization was needed? There was nothing in the endocervical canal, and the endocerverical glands were not involved.

But my real concern is to know if doctors consider the kind of body a woman has, in addition to her condition, before recommending one treatment option. Or if LEEP has become so popular, doctors don't care if some women don't tolerate burn wounds very well. I got ahold of two guidebooks on LEEP, and they both state it is a requirement to discuss the alternatives to LEEP before a woman signs the paperwork. They also state cervicitis needs to be diagnosed and addressed, first. (I told the first doctor I had an infection and wasn't sure what it was; she waved it aside.) Most women I have met didn't know they had options to LEEP. I would have liked discussing my options, first, before choosing one.

Needing a pillow and painkillers to sit down for three months, getting an infection, and using a maxi pad for the entire three months has put me off LEEP, permanently. I told the new doctor I will never consider LEEP as an option, again. He looked very uncomfortable. But I would like to be able to trust doctors, again. I know my case was botched.

At Sun, 22 Jun 2008, William F. von Almen, II, MD, FACOG wrote: >
>CLS
>
>You DID NEED some kind of cervical conization therapy, be it laser, leep
>or cold knife cone. I am sorry you had an untoward response and very
>sorry your first ob put you off so rudely...Dr. von Almen

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