Thanks Laura since my appointment on Friday I keep asking my husband what they said because I can't remember Half of it, I keep thinking about the consultants face and why she wouldn't reassure me that I was going to be ok when I told her I had hardly any symptoms, I'm driving myself mad xx

One thing I learned was not to try and interpret expressions on the consultant’s face, or dwell too much on every word and how they said it. I remember mine asking me how I was feeling when I was going through radiotherapy and when I said I felt good, he said “unfortunately that means nothing”. A throwaway remark to him, but I never forgot it and I worried about it so much. They sometimes need a lesson in bedside manner! They don’t want to commit too much or give any guarantees because they can’t, so I understand that, but my chap was never very reassuring to me! Meanwhile, we are desperately seeking reassurance all the time that everything will be ok. I’ve seen several different consultants through everything, depending on their area of expertise, and some are better than others. I really trust my current one, who was my surgeon, and feel very comfortable with her, thank goodness! xx

Woke up in absolute terror again this morning, i want to know the results of the ct scan but I'm dreading the phone ringing all night I've been waking up thinking it's gone to far and knowing it's my own fault if it has because I didnt have a smear dor 13 years, my family could have been saved from the upset there going through, I've been stupid and selfish and I'm torturing myself about that xx

I didn’t have a smear for a lot longer than 13 years and did the torturing myself thing too. And then ignored MAJOR red flag symptoms for the best part of a year before seeing a doctor. Don’t beat yourself up about something you cannot change-you need to deal with the present rather than what has been in the past. But I do know how hard that is. I first assumed that my cancer would have spread and would be untreatable, but that was not the case at all, and my nurse was kind enough to phone me with my ct scan results to confirm no spread which was a huge relief. You are not stupid, not selfish, just unfortunate to have a cancer diagnosis, but hopefully you will get positive news with your scan results. xx

I'm trying to think if I had any symptoms but I would know if I had been in pain, I eat a lot of spicy food so I may have had stomach ache and put it down to that, ive had no bleeding and when I had my coil removed last November there were no signs of anything on the cervix then, I went to the doctors as soon as I had some blood because I thought it was a uti as the pain felt like that, can I ask what symptoms you had and ignored please xx

I ignored very bad post menopausal bleeding and extremely bad pelvic pain. So those don’t seem to apply at all in your case, which is a big positive! I should have gone to the doctor as soon as I had these symptoms, but hindsight is a wonderful thing. You went to see the doctor as soon as you thought there was an issue, so that’s also positive in getting diagnosed quickly. xx

Thank you so much for that that had made me feel a little better xx

Hi 

I am new to this site, I have read lots of stories on here and can relate to everyone's worries. I am 48 and had a colposcopy 2 weeks ago, they did a biopsy there and then as they noticed 2 lumps on the neck of my womb. I am having lower back pain on both the right & left sides. Have also had some mild pelvic pain. GP did my full blood count last Thursday so am waiting for the results for them too. I am worried and finding it hard having to wait for results:(

Thanks Jo x

I have seen ladies diagnosed with cervical cancer without symptoms, but it tends to be early stage. The more advanced the stage, in my experience and from speaking to many other women, the more symptoms they have, particularly pain and abnormal bleeding. Try not to get ahead of yourself before all your results are in and the stage decided on, as it’s impossible to guess and it just causes so much worry. Are you expecting a call today with the scan results? xx