00:00Hi friends, get on ready with me for story time I guess. Honestly I wasn't even thinking about making this
00:08video because I don't know I just wasn't gonna like say anything except to like my close friends and family
00:19and I was freaking out about the news that I got so I came on TikTok to like see if
00:26any of you ladies made videos about it because you know I'm scared and freaking out.
00:30And there was multiple videos and a bunch of people posting about this and their experience and what they went
00:37through. So I'm like okay I will I will do my own video and basically for awareness to stay on
00:46top of your appointments because I was not great with that.
00:50Um and yeah just like women health like it's not easy being a woman especially going to these appointments and
00:58going through uncomfortable you know appointments and situations.
01:02So yes this is this is going to be my video more for awareness um and to also say thank
01:09you to all the women out there that did make videos about this um because you're making me feel seen.
01:16And it's not just me and there's a community of women that are going through this.
01:22Okay so as women you know we have to go to our appointments we have to do our pap smears
01:30they're usually like every six months I think.
01:32Um and obviously you know I've been going to my appointments with my amazing doctor who gave birth or helped
01:39me give birth to um my three kids.
01:42Um and he's always like on top of me he knows that I hate going to these appointments because they're
01:48uncomfortable they hurt.
01:50Just the whole thing is just awful but like you got to do it.
01:53So the pap smears I've been having issues with getting abnormal results and pre-cancerous um you know results pre
02:05-cancer cells and your cervix and everything.
02:09It's very stressful guys um yeah.
02:14Okay so I've been dealing with this for like probably three four years now I don't know but like a
02:20long time of just like staying on my pap smears.
02:23Making sure you know there's nothing that will escalate to cervical cancer all these things.
02:30So my last couple appointments my last couple pap smears I had to get the uh colposcopy.
02:36Well no I only got it once.
02:40So when my pap the first time when my pap smear came back abnormal and he was a little worried
02:45you know there might be some you know pre-cancerous cells in there.
02:48Um I went back and they just did another pap smear where they put like this iodine in there to
02:55like see if anything is highlighted like the cells.
02:59I don't know but it wasn't great so then I had to do a colposcopy and I'm like what's that
03:06and then we get in there and they basically have to take a chunk out of your cervix and you're
03:14awake by the way.
03:14Okay and um yeah it's like with this little clamp and I had to do that.
03:20So uncomfortable like I already I already hate pap smears regular pap smears to begin with like nobody likes going
03:27to their pap smear appointment and like feeling uncomfortable and all those things.
03:31So I already knew it was going to hurt and I was just like bracing myself for it so yeah
03:36you are you're you're awake for this and they just put a clamp up there and they just snip two
03:43samples from your cervix.
03:46So I was like great so that hurt it wasn't a great experience um and he's like we're gonna send
03:55these out for a biopsy
03:56and then you know if anything escalates or you know I think
