How long did it take for your body to swing back to normal?  This has
been going on for a few years now, which makes me feel that it is my
UCTD- the inflammation causing abnormal paps.  It seems us AI'ers are
all suffering from "weird-body-syndrome"!  lol

Thanks for the post!
-Sharon

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Thanks for the post REP.  This has been going on for years, abnormal
pap, colposcopy, repeat pap sometimes normal, mostly abnormal.  The
irregular periods just started when I got really sick from my UCTD last
summer.  It hasn't regulated since then.  Sometimes I miss completely,
sometimes I have a completely light month, just like spotting, and
sometimes I get it mid month even though I'm on the pill.  No spotting
from intercourse usually.

When I first had an abnormal pap, they thought I had HPV, and the test
came back possibly the higher risk for cancer kind.  Then they did the
colposcopy and biopsy and said that it wasn't HPV, false positive.  That
was over two years ago, and ever since I've been having abnormal paps
and I have had another colposcopy and biopsy with everything being benign.

I still think it's because I have inflammation from the UCTD.  But for
some reason my gyno says it's not, so I don't know what she thinks it
*is*.  She said the time before this one that it was probably some yeast
or something.  She's only seen me have two abnormal paps so far because
I switched gynos during all this.  This time she seemed a little more
nervous about it, but said to me that "it isn't something to worry
about."  But to me I heard the difference in her voice from the last
time she called and sounded so confident that it was nothing to worry
about.  This time she gave the good news of having no liver troubles,
and when I started sounding happy she stopped me and said that there's
some bad news, my pap's abnormal again, and she sounded unsure when she
said it's nothing to worry about, not like last time where she just
brushed right on by.

I told her I'm still irregular, and she said that she'll see me in April
for a repeat pap and she probably will change my pill.  The last time I
tried changing I ended up contracting all day everyday like I was
pregnant.  SO painful, so I fear changing it, but it can't go on like
this either I guess.

I'm sorry to hear you had to deal with cervical cancer.  I can't imagine
how scary that had to be.  Just waiting for the results of biopsies can
send me up the wall.  And then to get the call and have it be bad news,
that's rough!

Thanks again,
-Sharon