Bump on my cervix!!!

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So, I decided that I would start using Cervical position to help me chart and learn even more about my body. I had tried to do this years ago but found it difficult to find my cervix so I gave up.

This time around I found it easy enough. I was on CD10 and it was right there low down. But as I started to feel I felt…nice and smooth…then something unusual – a bump. Slightly bigger than a pea, smooth, round and hard. Visions of cancer, and all those awful things you hear about jumped right into my head.

Well, of course, after making an appointment with the ob/gyn, I did some research and this is what I found out. It could be a number of things, most of them benign.

Firstly – a nabothian cyst which is a benign cyst of the cervix. It occurs when the normal skin of the cervix grows over a normal cervical gland. The purpose of cervical glands is to make mucous. So when the gland gets blocked off, a small cyst of mucous forms. This is completely benign. It is easy to diagnose just by looking at the cervix. There is no need to treat.

Secondly, an irritation from a trauma. This could be the trauma of vaginal delivery, or sex, or even a tampon.

Thirdly, endometriosis can show up on the cervix. This can also cause bleeding.

Fourthly, it can be a polyp from the upper cervical canal or the lining of the uterine cavity (endometrium). This can also cause bleeding.

Fifthly, it could be a wart.

And finally, it could be cervical cancer which is causing a mass.

Well, I don’t have any weird bleeding – although I seemed to spot longer than usual at the end of this cycle. But I got an appt with the doc in a couple weeks to do a pap smear and investigate this. Will try not to worry about it – I understand that cervical cancer takes years to grow anyway so no need to panic.

Also I found this website with comments from alot of other women who had the same thing and it turned out to be nothing for most of them. It was comforting.

http://herveryown.typepad.com/herveryown/2005/03/cervix_freak.html

Of course I would hate for this to interrupt our journey to our baby but at the most it will be just a slight detour – or at least that is what I am telling myself.

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