Hi everyone 

I’m new here and just looking for some advice please based off your own experiences if you don’t mind.

I had irregular bleeding in between my period. Heavy and lasted longer than my usual period would started a week after my period ended. I went to my GP and he did an internal examination, swabbed for infections and STI’s. Said everything looked normal and didn’t appear to be an infection but we wouldn’t know until the results came back. Prescribed 2 antibiotics for 2 weeks as said it could be an infection higher up. Told to avoid sexual intercourse whilst taking the antibiotics.

I’ve had the same sexual partner for the past 14 years and we are married and not seeing anyone else so STI is highly unlikely! GP said results came back as normal except I had thrush so prescribed medication. Bleeding had stopped after a week so seemed like all okay.

Exact same thing happened a month later with bleeding beginning a week after my period ended. Also started with a watery discharge with an almost chemical odour and some bleeding after sexual intercourse.  I expressed concern that it could be cervical cancer as the females in my family. Have a history of this with my grandmother being diagnosed at the exact age I am now. GP said we needed to do more tests and referred me for a scan. 

 I haven’t had the referral for the scan yet, as after a month I haven’t received it. It had been highlighted that the original referral was never actually made. Same thing happened this month and discharge symptoms have been continuing.

I’ve not been referred for a scan so hoping that comes through in the next couple of weeks. I also had a smear test and that came back negative for HPV. 

I’ve seen the GP today - it’s a different GP every time I go unfortunately. She said that we could rule out cervical cancer. That the GP would’ve been able to see that on the first examination. I’ve seen three other GPs and none of them have said this. I’m relieved, but now I’m worried that that isn’t incorrect. She said that because my HPV was negative and there was nothing to see on my internal examination by the first GP, it couldn’t be cervical cancer.

I was planning on seeing a gynaecologist privately next because I got myself so worried it was cervical cancer and didn’t want to delay finding it. None of the other GPs have done much in the way of reassuring me that it isn’t cervical cancer, but the GP was so confident that it wasn’t cervical cancer and was convinced that it would’ve been picked up on either the HPV screening or the internal examination by the GP.

Based on your own experiences should I take this as reassurance and relief, that it isn’t something more sinister like cervical cancer? I didn’t know that it could be picked up by a GP on an internal examination. I guess now the GP has the HPV results and the internal examination findings combined that clears the potential for it being cervical cancer?

Sorry for the long post had got myself in quite a worry about what it could be, and it could be the worst!