Good day.
I would like some advice on what to do.
should I just wait and trust the process although the process so far has not been very good. Or is there something else I can and should be doing?
I am trying to keep a level head and not stress myself out.
But I have had irregular abnormal for me bleeds since October / bleeding 75% of the time. So much so that having an IV iron infusion next week. (For last 4 years has been light spotting only for 1.5 days on avg due to IUD coil)
After reading up on Polyps I noticed other symptoms such as bleeds after sex and white/ yellow discharge which have been going on for longer than that. Husband and I had spoken about it before but assumed this was due to coil somehow.
But the reason I am worried is that on the 19th January I was taken to hospital by ambulance due to acute pain in lower back and pelvis to the point I could not walk. An MRI of my spine was done and spine injury ruled out.
I was in the hospital for close to a week and discharged being told, it’s muscular take pain killers and refer to pain clinic and physio.
while there I repeatedly asked given my female issues for 3+ months whether that could have caused the pain and was repeatedly dismissed/ignored and no one from gynae came to see me. one reason being given that a trans-vaginal ultrasound from 2.5 months before was clear.
I then saw a chiropractor privately post discharge who did more physical tests than had been done in hospital in one week and said it was definitely internal and not muscular or skeletal.
fast forward a week and I had an appointment to have coil Removed at GP. She after half an hour gave up and said she could not see or find the coil/IUD due to bleeding but that it was helpful because she had seen and found a polyp.
like others, I too was assured that it was not cancerous. (Although have also seen 2 so far that have recently been told this only to find it is cancerous)
She said it explained the bleeding but not the pain. I was then referred by GP to gynaecology at same hospital I was in. For removal of polyp and the coil.
I received the call today to say my appointment for polyp and coil removal is on the 06th August and that the gynae team deemed it ‘routine’ and therefore not urgent.
despite my recent hospitalisation or the bleeds requiring iv iron
but that is 6+ months away and my concern is that polyps have the same symptoms broadly speaking as cervical cancer, except for one thing CC can also cause pain in lower back and or pelvis which I am still experiencing
what would you do?
Should I push for more urgency?
Is that even possible?
How would I do that?
I appreciate that there is only a 2% chance however 3 weeks on and I am still in pain with no real answers and surely early detection if it is CC would be better?
Feeling very lost, unheard and defeated.
