Hi

I come from a long family history of cancer. My whole family on both sides going back the last 3 generations all died from one kind of cancer or another.

When i was 8yrs old my mother was rushed into surgery with cancer of the cervix and womb and luckily aged only 28 they managed to get it all after a full hysterectomy and she recovered.

She had 6 smears in 3yrs due to heavy abnormal bleeding and yet it was only after she collapsed at home and was rushed to hospital she finally had the scans that revealed the tumours.

My grandad fought stomach cancer aged 40, liver cancer at 48, kidney cancer at 55, bowel cancer at 60 and lung cancer at 65 and then at 70 they told him it had been in his blood and spread everywhere and there was no cure. I was 14 and saw him go from a man to a skeleton in just 6weeks before he died.

At that time I had 2 cancerous moles removed from my back and I was just glad it was caught in time to give me the all clear.

Ever since then I have seen several family members catch the big C, get misdiagnosed and then die as its spread too far by the time its finally diagnosed correctly.

I have spent nearly 30yrs living in fear of this enemy awaiting the day it attacked me again. To the point that when things started to become alarmingly wrong last August, I was so scared of being misdiagnosed or facing the truth that it had found mr again, I tried to ignore it.l, as I couldn't face the reality I knew that awaited me as had awaited everyone else in my family. 

Then the symptoms started getting more and more severe until February when I literally spent the week tied to a toilet severely hemorrhaging and passing clots the size of my hand and repeatedly passing out through blood loss.

After a week I was too ill to fight my husband and sought medical advice. They told me it was menopause and menorrhagia and prescribed me traneamic acid. That did stop the bleeding until each time I stopped taking it (as you are only meant to take it whilst heavily bleeding) and within a couple hrs of the missed next dose it started again.

Roll on 3 weeks later and the dr said I need an examination so continue taking the tablets after the bleeding stops them come see them after 5 days of non bleeding (but still on meds)

That was today. I went in, within a minute of the start of the examination, the bed and floor was covered in blood and clots the size of my hand and I have now been told there are masses of tumours on my cervix and I need to go into hospital immediately for treatment.

I have an autistic son who is already stressed to hell about covid without worrying about me, so after being told at the hospital that nothing can be done until tomorrow I went against their advice and came home to try to provide a normal evening etc before our lives get turnt on its head.

I stupidly looked up cervical masses/cancer and symptoms like mine seem to be later stages of cervical cancer.

What I'm really trying to ask is, has anyone else had cervical/womb tumours/masses with this kind of hemorrhaging and it not been cancer???

Thank you