Yep. Nearly got it from being exposed to HPV from an asymptomatic male spouse. There weren’t any symptoms other than potentially a little skin tag. It was caught in the advanced precancerous stage or whatever. They offered me a hysterectomy at 29 or we could try cutting out what (visibly to me) looked like about large marble-sized chunk of cervix. We could try that twice. Thankfully I’ve been clear for years, have my vaccine now etc. You know, it’s wild they do that while you’re awake in an exam room to me. Anyway!! A little vaccine could have spared all that.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 22 hours ago

Free cure for cancer.

but, nah.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

it’s wild they do that while you’re awake in an exam room

It's a little hyperbolic to say, but the most dangerous part of a surgery really is the anesthesia. If you can do an operation without it it's far, far better for the patient, even though it sucks to have to be conscious through it.

[–] dazzlingclitgame@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There’s a lot of options between no pain relief and anesthesia though.

Most procedures for women are done with no pain relief at all. Maybe they’ll suggest you take some ibuprofen beforehand.

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They only started believing that the cervix had nerves and is able to feel pain like 5 years ago.

When my mom was a kid they didn’t believe that children felt pain or need Novocain for dental extractions.

It was ten years ago that article came out about white doctors thinking black people feel “less” pain than everyone else.

Babies still don’t get a local anesthetic to cut part of their penis off.

Medical acknowledgment of the ability to feel pain is directly related to your proximity to being a white adult male.

[–] dazzlingclitgame@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

I will never stop being angry at the standard for everything being set to white adult men.