WHY YOU NEED TO GET YOUR ANNUAL PAP SMEAR- MY CERVICAL CANCER STORY

hey guys and welcome back to my channel I'm back for a video that I never really thought that I'd be filming I never thought I'd even be talking to anybody on the internet about this this is very personal so stare with me this is very hard for me to talk about so as you can see by the title we're gonna talk about my cancer story and basically how I develop a tumor and how how much I want to share my story I'm not a crier I'm not a crier but this really really sucked it was a very very difficult time for me and I feel like my story can help somebody out there so I'm going to share it because of that reason I'm not trying to have that any kind of pity I don't know I don't want any kind of you know attention and that way I really just think that this could help somebody out there because I've talked to this I've talked about it to other women and have gotten crazy results talking to them about this and realizing that people don't know how important it is to take care of your personal health and there are so many things that you as a woman probably neglect and my job here is just to remind you not to do that because you don't want to be in my shoes and what happened to me sucked but luckily I feel very very blessed and I feel very fortunate to be here telling you the story because I'm okay and I hope that I'm I'm still okay for the rest of my life so let's just get started so about two years ago I went in for my annual pap so if you're you know probably over the age of 18 depending on where you live in the world you probably have gotten a pap smear you're supposed to get one as soon as you're sexually active and I urge women out there to go get pap smears and my story is going to remind you why you need to do that go to your pap smears ladies don't don't delay this don't put it off went on and I I've always been very very good about taking care of myself in that aspect so I went in for my annual pap smear I had just gotten one day year before so it was no problem you know my pap smears had always been normal so when in got my PAP and the doctor called me about two weeks later and said he wanted me to come in to go over the results and he explained to me that had come back with mild cells changes so when they do a pap smear and they get a little swab of your cervix and in your cervix in your cervical wall there ourselves everywhere so he just looks in there and kind of throws um actually I don't know yeah I guess you could say that he just throw some kind of liquid that kind of helps all of the cells look appear very very clear in his microscope and then he goes in and just takes a little swab of things just to kind of look at it and just see what's going on there if there's anything that's worrisome which a lot of times cervical health isn't something that necessarily kind of jumps out at you you're not going to have a lot of symptoms if something is wrong with your cervix a lot of times unless you are very very very far into your cancer or your tumor or whatever it is right so a lot of people don't have symptoms so that's why you forget that you need to go get your service seriously though your cervix checked but anyway I went and when I got my pop smear and this time it came back up normal like I said he explained to me that the cells had changed a little bit it was very very mild stell changes and they kind of grade these self changes between low grade and high grade so low grade lesions or low grade um cell changes are cell changes that are very very minor they are typically not very worried about them but they like to monitor them and of course high grade changes show that something significant is going on in your cervical walls and in your cervical health right so I went and mine had come back it's like a low-grade lesion he explained to me this is very normal you're in your 20s this happens a lot so I'm just gonna to tell you to come back so we can get a little biopsy done and we're just gonna take a little piece out just to see you know what's going on there just make sure that everything looks good so I remember I came back and the actual process of the biopsy is called a Colt Co pulse copy that's kind of what your word Co pulse could be so they go in with this like microphone of microphone I'm really nervous to film this video because this is a very uncomfortable thing for me to talk about but I'm pushing through guys so they go in and they look in with this big microphone and they splash that thing in your vagina that kind of lets everything in there glow and they're looking for cells that don't look right and they go on with a little little thing to remove them and there is no anesthesia for this at least not and not in the US so they just do it kind of cold-blooded and to be honest the first time I got a biopsy it was pretty painful I mean I'd say it was like a level 7 out of 10 pain scale so it was pretty painful I mean it wasn't anything horrible the first time we'll get to the later parts but yeah first time it wasn't so bad they took out a little chunk he sent it to the lab and he told me no it looks pretty good yeah I'm not really that worried you know we'll see what the results say so I left and I came back a batter two weeks later when they called me to come back in to talk about the results and then this is when the doctor just told me you know everything looks really good you know the the biopsy came back with the same very very low-grade changes this is nothing to be worried about and my doctor was really not concerned he was very I mean also my doctor my gynecologist has always been a very happy-go-lucky kind of guy very optimistic very you know you're young you're you're good you're healthy you're fine you know so he wasn't very concerned about it he told me you know this happens all the time we'll just monitor it come back every four months and we'll do another PAP and if we need to do a biopsy we we will but a lot of times your body kind gets rid of the abnormal cells on its own and starts to generate good cells so you're good so I just want to mention really quick too that's something that I didn't know with making my situation worse was that I was on birth control I'd been on birth control for like five years and I didn't know that prolonged use of birth control made these cell changes worse and no there's not 100% guaranteed physical scientific evidence that this is true but there is a correlation between prolong use of birth control or contraceptive pills and the cell changes becoming more and more aggressive so because of that I just want to mention this because I didn't know this and I didn't find this out until very very late in the game so throw that out there in case any of you are on birth control and half the number of control for a long time and you're going through something similar I would advise you to maybe look into getting off the pill that's what I've done and I you know anyway so getting back to this story so he told me to come back every four months and that we would do a follow-up pap smear and just make sure everything looked the same so I went back four months later got a pop and then that came back as well maile abnormal but again told me this is gonna take like a year you know or so to really clear out of your system eventually your your body will start producing the good cells you know don't worry about it I'm not worried about it you're good so he very very much just kind of tried to calm my nerves and reassure me that everything was fine so I went back every four months again the first time mildly abnormal again and then I went back four months later and again mildly of normal again and then I went back again another time and this time they called me so this is like a like a year and a half in to this whole ordeal of having abnormal paps he calls me and it wasn't him it was a nurse on his thing but the nurse calls me and she says hey you know I'm calling you because your PAP came back and it's abnormal and I said yeah you know I happens every time um nope I was not fazed by what she said and she said no no it's more abnormal than usual somebody should come in can you come in tomorrow and that right there just set something off in me I don't know what how to explain it but I had a feeling that something was gonna be wrong with my pap smear I don't know why I just had this very very like prosthetic feeling in my heart that something was gonna go wrong with this pap smear and sure enough you know she tells me can you come in tomorrow we really want to see you the fact that they wanted to see me the next day definitely sent alarm bells in my head I knew that something was wrong so I made the plan so that it could be there the very next day and this is when the doctor tells me you know the the the last pap smear that we did you know came back moderately abnormal so it's not mild anymore it's moderate so I would like to do another biopsy um just because we haven't done one in like a year and just want to roll things out but I'm not worried about it I'm sure it's totally fine it's probably gonna come back as sin one which as I said before is like a low-grade self changes really nothing to totally panic about um so he thought it was gonna come back soon one he said maybe like worst case sin - but like I don't think so since she was moderate felt changes and then of course sin 3 would be hi great or you know severe self changes so he tells me he wants to do a biopsy and when I went back to get these results I didn't expect him to want to do the biopsy right then and there but he did so Oh this biopsy was so traumatic for me um I remember when he went in and got a good look at the cervix and stuff I mean this is kind of TMI but I don't care because it says this is important for the story um he was telling me you know your cervix is very inflamed it is very inflamed it is very irritated so this is gonna hurt you and when he went to go pick at the portion of my cervix that he wanted to pick at my cervix just like contracted and he tried to keep picking at it and I was crying on that table I mean I was just yelling you know there was just tears running down my eyes and I had nobody with me because I didn't know that this was gonna happen and it was such a painful process and I had no idea that it was gonna be that bad because I had had one before he was never that painful so again this kind of just set another alarm in my head and I thought you know it wasn't this bad last time so the fact that it is now just makes me think that something is really wrong with me so again did the whole by ops team he told me again he was like you know I'm not really worried you know I'm pretty sure again this is gonna come back okay so about a week goes by and again the doctor's office calls me it's never a good sign never a good sign so this time the doctor's office called me and the nurse says hey can you come in tomorrow morning like first thing like 8:00 a.m. and of course I'm panicking because I'm like well that's not good and I tried to get information out of her but she wasn't allowed to tell me anything so I just had to make my plans to come in the next day and again I'm very independent with a lot of these things so I didn't want to go with anybody I just wanted to go by myself so I didn't and then at this point the doctor tells me you know the problem is that it looks like your cells are actually like in send two and three which is moderate to severe cell changes and he tells me this and he's he looks shocked he's you know he's telling me like I would have never guessed this your cervix doesn't look like that level of bad I didn't think it was gonna be that bad I'm honestly shocked but because at this point you know your cells have been changing for over a year I mean we need to do something drastic and he suggested that we do a cone biopsy that's definitely not what I want it to do if you don't know what a cone biopsy is it is basically the way they put you to sleep and then they go in with a a knife and they basically carve out a cone-shaped piece of your cervix out so I literally mean a cone so this is your cervix they go in and then they just basically make the circle and then go all the way in make the you know cone and then remove that out that's quite a big chunk of your cervix that they're removing and they do that and it sucks because of course when they go in and they do these kind of things to your body you know that you're risking other things that comes with the risk of scarring your cervix making it more difficult for you to get pregnant making it more difficult for you to stay pregnant making it more difficult for you to deliver naturally the more that they take out of your cervix the more high-risk you are during pregnancy the less chances you have of giving birth naturally because your cervix can't wait to stand the weight of the pregnancy this all comes with a lot of problems and of course I was panicking because um I'm 26 years old so being a mother is definitely something that was on my to-do list in life and being told that they need to do this and remove a chunk of your cervix to hopefully figure out what the [ __ ] is going on with your body sucks right cuz you're like well I kind of want my cervix I don't want to want you to go in there and take anything out thanks I'm good but I had no choice right so of course the doctor basically explained to me he's like I'm thinking that I'm gonna go in there I'm gonna take out as little as I can I'm not gonna go oh I'm not gonna overdo it in there and probably what we take out is gonna be moderate to maybe CIN 3 cells and then that's gonna be awesome because we'll get what we need to get out and then you know that'll help your body heal itself and basically regenerate itself so I feel really good about this and the doctor kept telling me that you know I shouldn't worry about the risk pregnancy or not having a pregnancy in the future and all of these things because he had done this million times before he was so sure so sure that it was gonna go super well and it was gonna be amazing and it was gonna solve all my problems I was never gonna have to go do another one of these things again so I booked my surgery and I remember the day of the surgery I was I just had a bad feeling about it right so the day before my surgery I remember talking to my roommate and telling her I just have a bad feeling about this like I don't know why I just don't feel I don't feel good about it you know so the very next day I went and had my surgery and my wonderful boyfriend came with me he's been such a support system for me I can't even say good things about enough good things about him but um I went in and I you know the doctor comes in and he tells me you know I'm gonna start drugging you and we're gonna get this thing on the road it's a very very short surgery didn't take that long and it's not that risky so it's not like you know you're gonna bleed out and stuff I mean very unlikely so I wasn't very nervous about the actual procedure I was just nervous about you know what is he gonna take out is it gonna be what he needs to take out you know what if it's not enough all these things are just running through my mind right so we go get the surgery I wake up and I remember I was obviously very very drugs on mine um and he just dealt and the doctors like rolling with me out and he tells me you know it's done everything's good and I feel really good about it watch you're gonna have 100 babies you're gonna have a perfectly normal life but I'm not worried you're gonna be good so he was giving me all of this really really positive feedback making me think okay so whatever heat segata there obviously it wasn't that bad if he's feeling good about it and so what they do is whatever they take out from the biopsy they obviously send it to the lab to get tested to kind of roll out like exactly what stage you're in if you're in any stage or kind of make sure the margins are clear meaning that they got everything out so that was that day and I went home and I recovered and I recovered really really well I basically just laid for like two or three days in bed and then after I was pretty much on my feet I couldn't work out or lift anything over ten pounds um or take baths or do certain things for like two months after that but it wasn't a big deal you know I I was I was good and so that was in the end of December actually that was four days before Christmas is when this happened so December 21st was my surgery and then January 2nd never forget that day Jenner a second they called me and it was a nurse she said hey I'm calling you because we got results back from the biopsy and we want you to come in do Dean come in today and I said well sure um obviously I'm panicking if you're telling me that you want to see me today so I you know I told my boss I needed to leave because I had to go and talk to my doctor my doctor wasn't there so there was a different doctor that was gonna give me the results because they explained to me that a nurse couldn't give me the results over the phone because they needed to explain it to me which again not the best thing in the world so my doctor wasn't there doctor the was there with a different doctor that I had never seen before so it's very very difficult because he had to give me the news and so he take me into his office and then he like gets really close to me and then he goes so I don't really know how to say this because we didn't expect this but they found a tumor and your your cervix and it's like a really rare tumor and it does have cancer cells in it and I don't know I just felt like my world what black and I couldn't like I was thinking so many things but like I couldn't get them out you know like he was right in front of me and I had all these questions and all these things that I wanted to say but I was just in shock so he just talking you know it was like you know the good thing is that we cut this early and it looks like we got a lot of it out in the surgery which of course is when I reacted and I said well what do you mean even get it all and he goes no the margins aren't clear meaning so the cone that they took out contained the tumor but part of that tumor or part of those tumor cells or cancerous cells whatever remained on the outside of the edges and what he explained to me was you know I don't know what's next because you're a very complicated case we didn't expect you to have a cancerous tumor in your cervix so so the kind of tumor that I had was a called an adenocarcinoma and the stage that it was was in CTU so basically that is when these cells are encapsulated so the cancer cells have not spread they have not basically um reproduced all that much but they're all kind of contained in this one area but they are there so what he explained to me was that they took out as much as they could they don't know it's left of it and now they could no longer help me because I was no longer a gynecology patient I was a um oh my gosh I just spaced out oncologist I was a OB GYN oncology patients now I had to see somebody that would specialize in cancer because clearly everything that they've done up to this point wasn't helping me and if you're wondering if I was mad at my doctor for the doctor's office in general I wasn't a little bit um just because I feel like they really really neglected me for a long time but the reason I felt it was so important to tell my story is because I've sat with other women other girls my age and talk to them about my problem and they told me oh yeah I've had I'm normal for three years not okay it's not okay to have an abnormal pap for three years it's not okay if your doctor tells you that it's okay [ __ ] go finds another doctor not okay I kept being told not to worry two years went by don't worry don't worry don't worry and all along I should have been worried because nobody was doing what they had to do like nobody was really that concerned about the fact that this thing had been there for two years so like I said doctors are people they're imperfect people and they make mistakes and that's what you have to remember so if you feel like you're not getting the right care somewhere please go seek another physician get help somewhere else don't stay with that person because you might not be getting the answers that you need and it could cost you your life it could cost you your fertility your your reproductive organs it could cost you so much and at that point you know when I was told that I now have to see an oncologist I mean my world just collapsed because I thought well I don't know where to go from here am I gonna be able to have kids what are they gonna do a lot of there's a lot of different treatments for what I had some doctors are conservative and they want to go in and they want to remove as much as I can because they want to make sure that the cancer is not going to spread so some doctors recommend a hysterectomy or a partial hysterectomy where they don't remove like the ovaries but they do remove on you know the other organs like the cervix and the fallopian tubes I believe so there's different types of surgical procedures that they do or they could maybe want to go back in and do another column biopsy so it was very very overwhelming and I didn't know where I stood the doctors didn't know where I stood he was kind of leaving my fate in another doctors hands who I didn't know he just said well we're gonna have to find you a specialist now so all right you know and God bless his doctor too because he could tell that I was dying and he came in and gave me a hug and he tried his best best to console me but it was just very very difficult in that moment and again I was a so I didn't go like prepared for this so I left the doctor and I started looking for a specialist the specialists that they had suggested to me I didn't like um I didn't meet with him but I didn't feel like he heard me out I didn't feel like he listened to me to my concerns or helped helped me feel comforted or reassured so I chose not to go with him I chose to find somebody else and I found a doctor in the Cleveland Clinic and I'm gonna put his name below in the bottom bar in case any of you are in Florida and or South Florida and are looking for an amazing OB GYN oncologist because this man is wonderful and when I went in to go see him I felt like I was being taken care of I really did it he he made me feel so comfortable he listened to me he took a look inside my cervix and kind of told me you know you know we got to give it a little bit more time for everything to heal from the surgery but he did sorry he did explain to me that during the surgery when my doctor had kind of cut off the end of the comb he went back in and he burned the edges of where he had worked on so he told me I feel like because he went and burned the edges there's a possibility that we burned the cells that were still in the pre cancer stage that were left behind and that makes me feel good so that's given another month and then let's do another biopsy so I went home and I did as much research as I could I mean I I research my boyfriend research my friends my family research we all we all put our heads together because I needed something to help me fight this right so I did a lot of research and I found something called a HCC which is made of mushroom extract they have it on Amazon again I'm gonna link it in below down below if you're interested what a HCC does is it helps regenerate cells and because the cells that I had were not good cells I wanted my body to start making good cells and I knew that my body wasn't cool parading up until that point so I needed to do something to force it to create these good cells so I started using the HCC and then I also started using something called beta 1-3 glucan this is something that again I found that my research and what this does is it helps build your immune system so that your body can fight anything and so I really needed that I needed something to help my immune system I knew that my immune system was a huge reason as to why I wasn't getting over this and as to why my body wasn't helping me fight the cells that were impacting my cervix so I bought everything that I could and I'm not saying that because it works for me it's gonna clear up your problems and I'm not saying that because of because I did it it's going to be a replacement for treatment for cancer I'm not saying any of that I'm just saying that I was told I had to wait before I could do another biopsy the doctor basically told me you know I think we took out enough of the tumor that your body can regenerate the the rest of the cells and kind of help itself heal and so I was told I was gonna wait and I I couldn't fathom sitting there and doing nothing for two months so I found this and this is what I started doing and it made sense to me because anything that I could do to kind of help my body rebuild itself was it just made me feel better so I did that and I also removed red meat from my diet because I knew that Bernie is a carcinogenic and if you didn't know that now you know it's definitely are carcinogenic it which means it can contribute to cancer the crate yeah I can't speak the production of cancer cells and tumors and all that stuff so I removed red meat from my diet I started taking the HCC beta 1-3 fukken and then I went back in for my next pap smear at I want to say this was a very very end of February beginning of March around there is when I had my pap smear so I went in and the doctor told me you know that I was healing really really good and I was basically um all healed up or that I was I think he said I was 100% healed and then he was just gonna take a biopsy of my cervix and see what happens from there but he explained to me that because the type of tumor that I had an adenocarcinoma these are rare types of cervical tumors and they tend to be very sneaky and they're more dangerous than some of the other carcinomas because they tend to travel up into the uterus and almost like skips so this is your cervix so an adenocarcinoma can create a tumor here and then almost like skip and then create another tumor and then skip and then create another tumor up into your uterus so they tend to be very sneaky and hard to find so because of that he said I want to get a biopsy of your uterus and this is gonna hurt and I was not mentally prepared for this you guys but the amount of pain that I underwent for this biopsy was atrocious I mean it was I felt like somebody was ripping off my insides it was excruciating I could not believe that they did that without anesthesia but I understood that you know a human being can with can withstand it so I understood that but it was just awful pain that went all the way in there and I mean deep in there and they took that piece and I was just crying bloody murder I mean I've never been in so much pain in my entire this is like a 10 out of 10 pain that I've never had this much pain in my life it was horrible and then the doctor told me you know when it was all done and I was bleeding of course and he explained to me that based on this biopsy hopefully if it came back good that he wouldn't have to go up into my uterus anymore because this would basically rule out the possibility of a second tumor in my uterus so that was that and then about a week later I got my results and my results came back normal my pap smear was normal and my biopsy was normal there were no changes in my biopsy which is amazing I never in a million years thought that was gonna be my result I was almost positive that it was gonna come back with um like mild cell changes or moderate cell changes which I was already like mentally prepared for but when I got the results and they were no salt changes that were picked up on I was just taken back and I could not believe it and I'm not saying that it means that I'm 100% cured because I don't know that I still need two more pap smears and biopsies to say that I am in the clear I am still not considered in the clear but to have such a good outcome on my first biopsy is amazing and I have all the faith and hope in the world that the next two are gonna be just as good and then I am going that I am going to overcome this I have so much faith and I believe so much that this is gonna happen and it has been such a journey yeah so I really wanted to share my story because I am hopeful that by sharing it it helps somebody out there that either has been negligent about their personal you know health or that it reminds money to love their bodies more or take care of their loved ones remind remind your loved ones your might remind your mom's remind your sisters your girlfriend remind the people that you love in your life to go get their paps every single year or as often as they need to because it could save your life if I wasn't on top of my health and if I wasn't going regularly if I had been negligent and not gone for a year or two I would not be here telling you this story I would be telling you that I was probably you know missing all of my reproductive you know internal organs because I had to because of my cancer so the fact that I'm not is proof that you can do this too I just want to share that message with everybody out there and I am grateful for all of you to hear hearing my very long story I know this video is going to be very long but I really appreciate all the love and all the support and please share this video with other people because my my hope is that enough people go get get their paps get their wellness checks done make sure that they're doing okay make sure that they're being proactive about their health and if you're going through something similar please write to me do not hesitate I'm gonna leave my personal email in the bottom bar in case you want to shoot me an email and just tell me about what's going on with you I would love to hear your story I can definitely relate I've been there and I don't want other women to go through what I've been through because it's been very very difficult and I just this could be prevented and that's what I want to be for to prevent it for other people so thank you so much for watching this video and just for being here for this very long of bladder thing that I'm on um I appreciate every one of you so much and um have an amazing amazing rest of your week bye

Channel: Jany Marti

Views: 139,695

Keywords: CERVICAL CANCER, CANCER, CANCER STORY, JANY MARTI, AHCC, PAP SMEAR, SMEAR

Id: B_8ZubKf-Fo

Length: 33min 53sec (2033 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 16 2019