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A week and a half ago, I woke up in the middle of the night and had to pee, I went to the bathroom and when I wiped, I noticed a considerable amount of blood on the toilet paper. I wiped again to make sure it was coming from my vagina, and it was. I had a complete hysterectomy 11 years ago when I was 45. When I woke again at 6am, I still had some bleeding, and it went away after that. I called my gyno’s office that morning and got an appointment two days later. She didn’t see anything but she did scrape the walls of my vagina to have it sent to the lab. I found out today that I have atypical cells and they discovered I have HPV. They scheduled me to have a vaginal colposcopy on January 3rd. I’m stressing out, thinking it could be vaginal cancer. Has anyone else had the same issues? And if so, how did it turn out?
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Welcome, @joni66. I can imagine that you're stressing out. I moved your post to this existing discussion that @savypaige25 recently started on the exact same topic:
- - Possible Vaginal Cancer https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/possible-vaginal-cancer/
I did this so you can read the previous posts and connect with other members like @jeanadair123 @savypaige25 @naturegirl5 @jabrown0407 @rainyp who know what it is like to have a suspected case of vaginal cancer and the horrible wait period to know more.
I myself have had atypical cells and a vaginal colposcopy. In my case, that was the end of treatment that was necessary. I hope this might be the case for you too. The colposcopy wasn't hard, but the wait times between appointments and follow up were really hard. How do you distract yourself?