Ok, very complicated, but i'm going to try to cover everything in the little space they give me.
I was told i had an abnormal pap during my last pregnancy, they did two coloscopies and one biopsy then told me nothing else about it other than 'get a pap every six months'. In sept 2005 i had a baby girl, vaginally. I found out just after her 1st birthday that i was pregnant again. I went to see a different doctor due to insurance reasons and again had an abnormal pap. This time, they told me i had an active high-risk hpv infection and 'low grade cancer'. I had this since the first abnormal pap, but my other doctor never said anything.
Was that wrong of the doctor? Could my daughter have contracted HPV in the birth canal? Is it possible to carry both high and low risk strings of hpv and only have high show in the tests? (low risk makes warts and babies can grow warts on their vocal chords and suffocate between 1 and 3 years of age) I've never had warts, but i'm scared for her. >
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2 months ago
since i'm still apparently harboring an active HPV infection, would it be best to opt for a c-section delivery of this baby? When talking to my current doctor she said that HPV is in your blood, so it's in the baby's too, but it was my understanding that the mother and baby's blood never touch, although things can pass thorugh the plecenta, i was also under the impression that hpv was on the surface of your cells and not nessasairly ciruclating your body until the infected cells break through the basement membrane into they blood stream where it becomes cancer...but it's not like i have a medical degree, so i have no idea.
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2 months ago
oh, and also, what my doctor told me was cancer is actually LGSIL, which after reading multiple publications on the subject is just uncontroled reproduction of infected cells, but nothing refered to it as cancer. HGSIL was refered to as precancerous and when it broke the basment membrane then it was cancerous, and if it reached the lympnodes it was invasive cancer.
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2 months ago
I appreciate your input, but i'm not really finding answers to my questions.
For example, it's pretty impressive that they managed to do a study on 100 children born to HPV infected women who'd developed warts on their vocal chords if there's only been 12 cases.
And the to the second, i'm aware that my doctor opted to 'sit and wait' on my cancerous growth, but does that option really invovle not informing the paitent that they have an active STD infection and cancer? (cancer being the uncontrolled dividing of infected cells)
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There have only been 12 people documented to have gotten "warts" on their vocal cords so that is not a real risk factor. You can deliver vaginal with HPV and your baby will not get it but I am not a OB so I would ask them to see. Good Luck and if you have to have a C-section, it is not the end of the world. |
