5 Cervical Cancer Symptoms You Need to Know

it’s true – there are few symptoms of cervical cancer, and that is why screening with the best and most effective tools is essential for cervical health!
one thing to take note – the pap test is NOT 100% accurate – only 50-80% depending on the type of pap. that is why we are lucky to have the HPV test – to let you know if you are carrying the virus that causes cervical cancer BEFORE it becomes invasive, even BEFORE it causes abnormal changes and can lead to a LEEP, cone biopsy, or worse yet – hysterectomy, chemo, radiation, internal radiation……. which is what i had to go through, despite my history of NORMAL paps.
so i applaud your effort to increase awareness of the pap, but i think it is important to talk about ALL the tools available – the vaccine, the liquid pap AND the HPV test – if we want to truly eliminate this cancer we must unify the message and get it out to all women. because we can. and we should.

My friend was diagnosed with cervical cancer 10 years ago – while she was pregnant! As you could imagine, her pregnancy was stressful and she was ordered to bed rest. She couldn’t get any treatments for the cancer b/c she was “with child.” After the birth of her healthy son, she had surgery to remove part of her cervis and underwent radiation treatments, which mader her extremely ill – but it saved her life, thank goodness. I am very aware of cervical cancer now, since it hit so close to home. I am trying to absorb a lot of information about Cervical cancer.

was just told today that I may have cervical cancer and am 15 weeks 5 days pregnant….dr than went to hear babys heart beat and couldnt find it….have to wait until thursday to have an ultrasound have never been so scared in my life

i have at least three symptoms of the cancer and i got hpv cuz of rape and gang activities and i actually got it when i was being let in the gang i didint even kno until 5 months later when i went for a pap and i found out for the first time that i got hpv and i had it for awhile so a week of pills and it was gone but i cant belive all that has happend in two years and until now and i never thought id see this kinda drama but i should of known better now i choose my friends wisely and i cut out almost all my friends and its safe to say im almost pretty much friend less but thats not a bad thing if i do find out i have it idk if im even gunna get treatment or tell anyone but newayz all the nurse told me is theres abnormalities and im too scared to go Back to the doc to see for sure but since i already have 3 of the signs thats really scary and no one knows this i have one cousen and my bf who knows i MIGht have it but no one knows i have any actual signs or anything much else so i dont think theyre taking me serious and thats fine im just idk messed up on the inside really confused ?and i havint talked to anyone about it really this is my first time venting if anyone cares so idk if anyone knows what im going through it would be nice to get a reply no info exchange just venting to eachother cuz idk..im just not the type of person to tell ppl who i have to see everyday all this horrible crap im very private so thats why im venting on here and i dont wanna bother my fam or my bf cuz they go through theyre own junk and they dont need mine so if anyone cares i need sumone who at least understands a lil of wat im goin through? and if na than thats cool too later

To Comment #4…Dear Girl, you need to go back to the doctor, please. Don’t let the past haunt you- believe in yourself and in your future. You have been through so much and have survived- this tells me you are a strong woman. Take control of your future and be who you are meant to be. It is not too late.
Blessings of Love and Peace to you.

Message for . You should go to the Dr. It is better if you know about the symptoms, when I went it wasnt because I was aware of all the symptoms and I had something, it was ok I didnt die but atleast I went. You will feel better when you go, because if you do not go then you will be like, “I wish I went earlier” and then you will feel even worse. Go now find out and if you do have something they can help you like they helped me. Once they took out what was bad in my system my next exam came out normal, I went 6 months after that and it was abnormal again I was scared but I went thru the same process again, now it is 2 yrs after and I dont have nothing. Believe me its better to know and get it fix the quickest you can. other females arent so lucky and go too late. You are in time.

#4 I am sorry I dont mean to be rude but you are being soooo dumb. I am 24 with 2 kids and now I have cervical Cancer. I never would have guessed in a thousand words that this would happen to me. Your not the only one with a bad past belive me. I cant stop thinking about whats going on i mean i want more kids and I want to be healthy and you should to. oh yeah one more BIG thing you need to talk to some one I dont care if you call a cancer hotlinre but you just cant ignore this. There are hospitals willing to help if you dont have money to cover the apts. I dont get Medicade and I dont have insurance so I went strate to the hospital and they have a program that will go bassed off your income. This is for everyone here who needs some kind of help dont keep it inside you gotta let it out!!!!!

I haven’t been to the doctor yet, but I have four of the symptoms and felt a bump on my cervix. I have been wondering what’s been up with my body for a while now, but figured it was just different now after having a child. My son is now a year and a half, I’m 22 and I haven’t been in for a pap since having him. I’m getting really nervous about this. I suspected all of my symptoms were from the birth control pill I am on, but my body never regulated with it. I have my appointment next week, but I’m also concerned that the symptoms I tell the doctor about will be brushed aside (since this is all I’ve experienced with doctors in the past and even through my pregnancy when it turned out I had preeclampsia that went unnoticed). I’m not the type to worry about health things all the time, so when I looked this up I was a little shocked. We’ll see what the doctor says. But can that much happen in just a year – year and a half of not having a pap? Everything in the past has been normal.

I am about to maybe get my jab and i am wondering, is it safe has it made your life better or worse? I am not sure what to do.

Hi im 16 and i was diagnosed with precancerous cells in my cervix about a week ago, and i am VERY scared of whats going to happen. It doesnt help that i am stressing that school is starting in a couple hours and the stress of my mom being sick. Remember, early detection is the key. -thank you.

i had genital warts before and undergone surgery to remove it, i also had gardasil vaccine but until now i am worried, i might have cervical cancer too because of the genital warts i had…one thing more, a year after removing the genital warts, i had sex with my bf (who has infected me with the virus) though i don’t see/feel warts anymore..i know i was stupid to do that even after knowing i got infected from him…. my worry is about this cervical cancer, i am afraid i might have it in later years…help pls, what do i need to do? i broke up with my bf already and don’t have bf anymore,i’m afraid to have sex again becaus eof this experience, afraid i might infect others or i might catch one agin…

i had sex 8 months ago unprotected and im sceared that i may have a STD or curvical cancer, would i have symptoms by now if i had curvical cancer? x

Hello. How can you be positive about the cervical cancer? I am having abnormal bleeding between periods. I had my period about 3 weeks ago, then about 2 weeks ago, I’ve been bleeding once again, and it has yet to stop. I do smoke cigarettes, and I have had sex at a relatively young age. Do you think I could be cervical Cancer positive?

Hi I’m Edna I’m 14 and I have most of the symtoms of cervical cancer……..after I have sex with my boyfriend I bleed but I bleed like a normal period I’ve gotten my cervical cancer shot but I heard it doesn’t help prevent it my boyfriend has had sex with many other partners but hes positive he doesn’t have a STD but I don’t know I’m very worried how could I know if I have it? I can’t go to the doctor because then my parents will find out my mom begged me not to have sex after I had sex if she would have told me before I had sex I wouldn’t have sex I don’t want to tell her if I get worse I’ll tell her but for right now it seems like nothing’s wrong

I just found out I have HPV, and to tell you the truth I never in a million years thought I’d have this. Honestly when I went to get checked for stds, I was so happy I didnt have the curable ones or HIV, that I didn’t even care about my pap smear. I didn’t even know that HPV was a std, i thought it was only the cancer. BOY ; was I very wrong. I am so scared, and yet so mad at myself for being so stupid. And all though I am in a healing process with forgiving myself, I have to move on, and really take care of myself, and I advise that to the other young women who find out the same thing. I am heart broken only because I broke my own heart. this hurts me. I don’t even know how long I’ve had HPV… so there is no telling that I have alot of this sysmptons && abnormal pap. so wish me luck. and I wish everyone here luck GOD BLESS !

Im 17 years old and have been having many of these symptoms…I had an abnormal pap last year and it runs in my family. I was wondering if anyone can give me some insights on more symptoms to look for…I have a doctors appt coming up soon.

Hi, my names Amanda. I just turned 21 and fearfully all my symptoms have returned. I had my yearly pap smear last Sept. and I came up abnormal, I didn’t think anything of it ontill my doctor called me her self and told me that she had called the hospital and that they would be expecting me there the next day at 7am. That’s when I started getting scared. I stayed up the whole night learning all I could about the cervic and how things can go wrong. For me though it’s a little bit different. I’ve never had a period so when the bleeding started I was so happy that I was going to be like a normal young women, but I was wrong. My mother having been a vet for over 30years could tell that I wasn’t acting my self and that I would not even call to talk (I had moved into my first apt. only three monthes befor I got the bad news, so my not calling was a big sign to her that something was wrong) finaly I told her, we cried and held each other, cried some more then finshed off a pint of ice cream. After endless tests for weeks straight I thought that I’d be fine, ontill now. All my symptoms are back and the pain is worse than ever. I only wish that I would have agreed to a hysterectomy. I wouldn’t because I was only 20, young and in love. I wanted a “home grown” baby, not a petree dish baby, I wanted one from my own body then I would be more than happy to take any I could have into my home. But now I’m soooo scared I just want everything that makes me a women out. This time though I can’t say anything to my mother no matter how close we are. My mom’s on the verge of having a stroke and she’s already had five heart attacks the next on could take her away from us. I can’t lose her, she’s my life, I even moved back home mostly to take care of her and my step-father. What’s worse is that I can’t afford any of the co-pays let alone the test. The main thing is that I’m scared of lossing what makes me a women. I already lost my hear and I got through that with firends and family, I’m just so scared. I’m that strong girl who works fulltime and is cutting back on my spending just so I can go back to college, who takes care of her parents, who’s alwasys there for her friends, I can’t get sick again.

To all of you strong girls, young ladys, women and mothers, you give me strength. it’s you that I get the power from to get myself out of bed each morning. It’s you who gives me the courage to grin and bear it. And to the young girls and lady’s you must take care of yourselves first, how can you help anyone if your not ok? It took me a long time to understand that. Please get your yearly pap smear, and make sure that the one your with is safe, physicaly and mentaly. The guy I was dating at the time when I first got sick left me cause he said that I was freak, that I’m unclean. I didn’t have HPV or any of that. Please simpely be safe with your body. And I ask you not to pray for me but for my mother who I know will try to muster all her strength and will-power to be strong for me.
(sorry if I sound kinds preachy, I don’t want to come off as bossy, but I wish that someone would have told me, or preached to me. God bless and be strong, we are women after all, the strongest thing there is.