Wendy,

Go to the Hers Foundation.  They can answer all your concerns.  They are the most knowledge organization made up of women who have had hysterectomies.

www.hersfoundation.com

Jill

Thanks Mary Anne...Im getting a cone on monday....hopefully, i will
wind up with a simple hysterectomy based on the findings.  One thing
i cant find much information on is sex after a hysterectomy.  The few
people ive talked to who have had one say that everything is fine...
that youre just shutting down the baby factory.  My concerns are that
A) nerves being cut (sex hasnt been the same after my second {fat
headed} child.... B) the psychological aspect of "not having all of
my female parts". 
Wendy

--- In Cervical-Cancer@yahoogroups.com, "Mary Anne" <whitedog@m...>
wrote:
> Hi Wendy.  I too had adenocarcinoma in situ diagnosed in 1998. 
After a
> conization in 1998 and a simple hysterectomy in 2001, I'm doing
just great.
> I have one daughter who is now 3.  She was conceived through
artificial
> insemination after the conization left me "infertile."  Good luck
with the
> next step and I'll be thinking about you.
>
> Mary Anne
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Wendy [mailto:bloodandgutz27@h...]
>   Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 9:07 AM
>   To: Cervical-Cancer@yahoogroups.com
>   Subject: [Cervical-Cancer] New Kid on the Block/Wendy
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>        Hi all.  Ive been putzing around in yahoo for a while and im
>   glad i finally found an active board dealing with cervical cancer.
>        Im 35 yrs old with 2 kids and was diagnosed last month with
>   adenocarcinoma of the cervix.  At this point i know that it is at
>   least in-situ, but the pathologist said that there was a high
>   likelyhood that it had invaded the margins.  My diagnosis was done
>   with a LEEP, which uses an electrocautery device to cut the
tissue.
>   Unfortunately, when the tissue burns, it makes reading the margins
>   more difficult. ( i work in an operating room as a scrub nurse, so
>   unfortunately or fortunately, i know these kind of things)
>        I go back  on thursday  for another  biopsy.... im still not
>   sure weather this one is going to be another leep or a cone, but
ill
>   find that out tommorrow.
>        The results of that test will determine weather or not i will
>   have a simple hysterectomy, a modified radical or a radical.
>        Ive been riding the rollercoaster since then.  I think the
worst
>   part is the not knowing what exactly im walking around with and
>   playing the waiting game.  I know something is growing in there, I
>   know that with adenocarcinoma  even if we get clear margins on the
>   second try, that it could have skipped cells and that there could
be
>   an even bigger lesion just beyond where the biopsy was taken.
>                                             Waiting in Limbo,
>                                             Wendy
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