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My Life’s Journey: Living with PCOS
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• nose time had passed, maybe cervix and uterus only S
• uterus two months, at that point because they removed S
• throat I decided not to continue them through my vagina
with the in vitro process via laparoscopic. 2
Most polyps are benign, because of all that had 0
meaning they’re noncan- happened. I still experi- I must honestly say ma- 2
cerous. But because they enced symptoms from the king the decision to have 0
are due to abnormal cell PCOS, which included a hysterectomy felt like
growth, they can eventu- heavy bleeding from my sliding down a double
ally become malignant, menstrual cycle. edge sword. I felt this
or cancerous. Your doc- way because I saved my-
tor can help determine if After some months passed self from all the suffering
the growth is a polyp by the polyps grew back and that I have been enduring
performing a biopsy. This at this point, I was over it, for many years but I will
involves taking a small so I decided to get a hy- never be able to birth a
sample of tissue and te- sterectomy. I had my hy- child which is something I
sting it for the presence of sterectomy on September had always wanted to do.
cancerous cells. (healthli- 2009; I felt like this was The thought of the enti-
ne.com) the best solution for the re experience still causes
problems I continued to me so much pain to this
After this discovery I experience. My hysterec- very day. As I type I can
found out that the polyps tomy was a partial becau- feel my eyes fill up with
were benign; they were se my doctor removed my tears of deep sadness. But
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