Anxiously waiting biopsy results from colposcopy

hi everyone! I'm looking for advice/reassurance. I'm 26, I'm married with twin girls aged 26 months & a baby girl aged 16 weeks! My most recent smear 8 weeks after my baby was born came back abnormal. No other info into the abnormalities & enclosed was an appointment for a colposcopy for the very next week (yesterday). I went yesterday with my husband, the colposcopy it's self was ok, not painful but uncomfortable. He didn't do treatment, he just sprayed solution in me & took one biopsy! I asked him outright if it looked like cancer. He said "no, pre cancerous, not cancer, do not worry!" I asked how long biopsy result would take, he said 6 weeks which I thought was very long! Anyone else waited this length of time? I'm so so worried about all this! I had a smear after my twins were born, it came back borderline changes & to return in 6 months, I had another 6 months later which came back normal but still to return in 6 months. By that point I was pregnant! I contacted my GP & told her. She said not to worry unless I have abnormal bleeding etc, ive had none of this! No symptoms at all. Anyway, my Mind is all over the place so in a bid to calm myself down I called my GP surgery & receptionist got GP to call me back, to be honest her manner wasn't pleasant & I came off the phone in tears feels worse! I asked if I could get more info on my smear results, she told me it was severe dyskariosis. I'm so worried as I went 16 months with no smear, in that time it's went from normal to severe changes?! I'm terrified for my children & husband! I'm scared I have cancer!! Should I take what the dr said yesterday as a comfort?! Thanks in advance. Karen

  • HI karen86,

    I just wanted to say hello and welcome you to Cancer Chat. Wow three little girls, you must be very busy! You have come ot the right place to talk to others with a diagnosis of severe dyskariosis as there have been several threads on this website by people who have been diagnosed with this. I just wanted to reassure you that severe dyskiarosis means you have pre-cancerous cells but this does not  mean that you have cancer. It just means that some of your cells are abnormal and need to be treated and there are good treatments for that as you can read in our Cancer Help page here. In fact, a friend of mine had a very successful treatment for that over ten years ago and has not had an abnormal smear since.

    We have had users who discussed severe dyskaryosis on the forum recently so feel free to drop them a line on their thread. You can find their posts here and here to mention just a few.

    I hope you will soon talk to a nice doctor who will be able to explain things to you better than the one you had on the phone!

    Hopefully this forum will be of some help to you and others will be along soon to say hello,

    Lucie

  • Hi I had colposcopy about 4 weeks ago because I had severe abnormal cells they removed the abnormal cells that day but I've had letter today to go back to clinic but it doesn't say Why so I suffer from anxiety really bad and it's freaking me out do you think it's just follow up 

  • Hi, I'm sorry I know your post was a long time ago, but could I ask why you had to return? I had a colposcopy, LLETZ and biopsy carried out less than 2 weeks ago. I was told i would receive a letter in around 4 weeks time and would have to have another smear test in 6 months time. However I got a call yesterday asking me to return to hospital to speak to someone, so I'm assuming it's bad news. They wouldn't rush things and want to see me this quickly if it wasn't something urgent. I'm clutching at straws trying to find another reason they want to see me other than to tell me that I have cervical cancer. Could you shed some light on your return experience please?

  • Hi, I'm sorry I know your post was a long time ago, but could I ask why you had to return? I had a colposcopy, LLETZ and biopsy carried out less than 2 weeks ago. I was told i would receive a letter in around 4 weeks time and would have to have another smear test in 6 months time. However I got a call yesterday asking me to return to hospital to speak to someone, so I'm assuming it's bad news. They wouldn't rush things and want to see me this quickly if it wasn't something urgent. I'm clutching at straws trying to find another reason they want to see me other than to tell me that I have cervical cancer. Could you shed some light on your return experience please?

  • Hi AmieL

    is it possible for you to say how your hospital appointment went? I have had the LLETZ and biopsy nearly 4 weeks ago and am worried I have not had my results back yet. I hope your appointment went ok? Thank you so much 

  • Hi ladies,

    I just read your stories about anxiously waiting for biopsy results. My experience is recent, I have now been waiting 5 weeks for result's and tried to chase things up today. The consultants secretary has said due to staff shortages that they may take between 8 to 10 weeks instead of 4 to 6 weeks which is what I was told at my appointment by the consultant.

    This isn't good enough I'm already so anxious waiting so the lady I spoke to said she would email the consultant to let him know I've been in touch. 

    Does anyone have any ideas if there is anything else I can try? 

    Thanks in advance. Jo x

  • Hi Jo,

    I'm sorry about your worries. I totally understand, as I was in a similar place a few months ago.

    And they do take several weeks, mine was 6 weeks wait for biopsy results. I called a few times both the clinic and my GP, but there wasn't anything else to do, so just waited.

    I know it's difficult and one gets bad thoughts, but stay strong and stay busy if it helps. I wish you get good news back.

     

    Sxx

  • Hiya sorry for the bother I was just wondering how long it finally took for your results to come back after   I had my biopsy done at the clinic on the 25th November and am still waiting for the results of this but my anxiety is going through the roof at the min.  Xxx