CancerCompass message board discussion started by stargazer888 on 2/6/2008 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,20692,0.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Hello All- I am new to this website not because I was diagnosed with cancer but because I think I have it. Mind you I never thought this would happen to me but I finally had to give into my symptoms and really think about what was going on with me.  If any of you can relate to the symptoms I am having please let me know. It all started about two years ago when I was diagnosed with HPV. I didn't even know that I had it. I had no signs or symptoms of it but after my annual pap I recieved a letter in the mail regarding my results. I went ahead and did som research as to what it was and found that was a likely prescursor to cervical cancer.  So like almost everyone would do I made regular 6 month apointments from there on out. The following two papsmears came out perfect. My doctor said i had cleared the virus and had no strains of HPV in my pap test. I was happy and thought that was the end of it.  Soon after recieving those results I started having really painful intercoruse with my bf. It was not normal at all. I had to completly stop. I was spotting every now and then but I looked at it as normal because I was never a person who had normal periods. i would sometimes go 5 months without getting one. Little by little I started spotting more and getting my periods almost every month. I thought this was just my bodies way of starting anew and getting into a routine cycle.  Since the painful sex had gone away I started to have intercourse again... only to be back in that painful state again!  I would bleed after it as well and it never felt good.  Now my periods have become an almost constant bleed and when I am not I am spotting and usually everytime I go to the bathroom I seem to have this brownish -gritty stuff that comes out (like dried blood). I think because I have been loosing so much blood is why I am so tired lately. I get more than enough sleep but still feel exhausted all the time.Has anyone else experienced these symptoms. Your replies would really help me. Thank you!Christa stargazer888 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT The only thing you can do is go to your doctor and find out. Don't speculate, don't search the internet for random signs and symptoms, you'll only freak yourself out unnecessarily. Most of the time there are no symptoms at all, of HPV or cancer. I knew I had HPV and had a pap four months prior, but when I went back, lo and behold, I had cancer with no symptoms. Just make an appointment with your gyno. Layla Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT