Hannah13
05-07-2009, 04:37 PM
Well today was interesting.
I browbeat the imaging desk staff to give me my test results. (They are not supposed to do that.) That would never have worked on the techs but the desk staff don't know any better. They seldom do, god bless them.
So some of the waiting is over.
And some of it won't be until the histology reports of the tissue samples come in, most of which have not been collected yet.
That can take over a month, (between the surgery itself and the very slow labs.)
The upshot of my current info is that according to the report my giant mass is a fibroid.
There's some suspicious thickening of the endometrium and some spots they could not image well which always gets labelled as possibly cancerous but that's just routine. Best of all there's no free fluid in the cul de sac which makes endo slightly less probable.
Cancer is unlikely as well for a number of reasons though I can't promise cancer and endo are out of the picture yet as much as I wish I could. We need those histology biopsy reports 1st and all the labs are terribly slow..like 3 weeks or more.
So cancer and endo are dark horses but still in the running.
TODAY I HAD A BIOPSY DONE WITH NO PAINKILLERS AND NO ANESTHESIA.
Please remind me never ever to do that again.
It's a little something like this:
• Bimanual examination assess the size and position of the uterus.
• The cervix is visualized using a vaginal speculum, and cleaned.
• A tenaculum applied to the anterior lip of the cervix is used to provide gentle traction whilst a sound is inserted though the cervical os. This reduces the risk of uterine perforation.The tenaculum should be used to straighten the uterocervical canal, thereby preventing the pipelle from passing through the thin walled posterior vaginal wall.
• Dilators may be required if there is difficulty in passing the sound.
• When the position and size of the uterine cavity have been assessed, the pipelle is inserted through the cervical os and advanced until gentle resistance is felt.
• The inner piston of the device is then withdrawn to create a suction and the endometrial sample is obtained by moving the pipelle up and down within the uterine cavity by approximately 2-3cm but not beyond the cervical os. As the cannula is rotated during removal, a strip of endometrium is peeled off and sucked into the syringe.
• This procedure should be repeated at least four times, and the device rotated 360 degrees to ensure adequate coverage of the area.
• The pipelle is then withdrawn from the cervical os and the endometrial sample expelled into a solution of formalin for transport to the laboratory.
Now what that really means is they force your vagina open. No big deal. A little uncomfortable.
Then THEY FORCE YOUR CERVIX OPEN. This is more pain that I can describe. It puts childbirth to shame. Holy Mary, mother of God, I'm still just amazed that the human body can suffer that much.
Then they rip off parts of your uterine lining.
This also hurts more than I can describe.
The pain afterwards is immense and lasting.
The procedure itself takes maybe 3 or 4 minutes but you feel like you are in hell for 40 years and the pain afterwards is truly remarkable. my husband nearly had to carry me.
My gyno did that to me TO HELP ME, that's what's really screwed up. He didn't want to fiddle around and make me wait a longer time than absolutely neccisarry to find out what's going on and undergo the dangers of major biopsy surgery. (Yes, it's routine but every time you go under it's just a little bit dicey.)
Which I still have to do for other areas that he can't get to.
All in all. Hot water bottles, vicodan and wishing for a stop to all this are high on my list.
This is all getting a little too hardcore for me.
At least urelle is helping me manage my IC a little in all this.
I browbeat the imaging desk staff to give me my test results. (They are not supposed to do that.) That would never have worked on the techs but the desk staff don't know any better. They seldom do, god bless them.
So some of the waiting is over.
And some of it won't be until the histology reports of the tissue samples come in, most of which have not been collected yet.
That can take over a month, (between the surgery itself and the very slow labs.)
The upshot of my current info is that according to the report my giant mass is a fibroid.
There's some suspicious thickening of the endometrium and some spots they could not image well which always gets labelled as possibly cancerous but that's just routine. Best of all there's no free fluid in the cul de sac which makes endo slightly less probable.
Cancer is unlikely as well for a number of reasons though I can't promise cancer and endo are out of the picture yet as much as I wish I could. We need those histology biopsy reports 1st and all the labs are terribly slow..like 3 weeks or more.
So cancer and endo are dark horses but still in the running.
TODAY I HAD A BIOPSY DONE WITH NO PAINKILLERS AND NO ANESTHESIA.
Please remind me never ever to do that again.
It's a little something like this:
• Bimanual examination assess the size and position of the uterus.
• The cervix is visualized using a vaginal speculum, and cleaned.
• A tenaculum applied to the anterior lip of the cervix is used to provide gentle traction whilst a sound is inserted though the cervical os. This reduces the risk of uterine perforation.The tenaculum should be used to straighten the uterocervical canal, thereby preventing the pipelle from passing through the thin walled posterior vaginal wall.
• Dilators may be required if there is difficulty in passing the sound.
• When the position and size of the uterine cavity have been assessed, the pipelle is inserted through the cervical os and advanced until gentle resistance is felt.
• The inner piston of the device is then withdrawn to create a suction and the endometrial sample is obtained by moving the pipelle up and down within the uterine cavity by approximately 2-3cm but not beyond the cervical os. As the cannula is rotated during removal, a strip of endometrium is peeled off and sucked into the syringe.
• This procedure should be repeated at least four times, and the device rotated 360 degrees to ensure adequate coverage of the area.
• The pipelle is then withdrawn from the cervical os and the endometrial sample expelled into a solution of formalin for transport to the laboratory.
Now what that really means is they force your vagina open. No big deal. A little uncomfortable.
Then THEY FORCE YOUR CERVIX OPEN. This is more pain that I can describe. It puts childbirth to shame. Holy Mary, mother of God, I'm still just amazed that the human body can suffer that much.
Then they rip off parts of your uterine lining.
This also hurts more than I can describe.
The pain afterwards is immense and lasting.
The procedure itself takes maybe 3 or 4 minutes but you feel like you are in hell for 40 years and the pain afterwards is truly remarkable. my husband nearly had to carry me.
My gyno did that to me TO HELP ME, that's what's really screwed up. He didn't want to fiddle around and make me wait a longer time than absolutely neccisarry to find out what's going on and undergo the dangers of major biopsy surgery. (Yes, it's routine but every time you go under it's just a little bit dicey.)
Which I still have to do for other areas that he can't get to.
All in all. Hot water bottles, vicodan and wishing for a stop to all this are high on my list.
This is all getting a little too hardcore for me.
At least urelle is helping me manage my IC a little in all this.