Cigarettes Female Health Issues *TMI warning*
*TMI Warning* This post is about a mostly FEMALE health issue that only affects MALES if they had/have sex with a FEMALE... or with a MALE actually...
*Reason 2394 NOT to smoke cigarettes, therefore, reason 999 to switch to e-cigarettes/personal vaporizer...
So far as I can tell, since I quit smoking cigs and only use e-cigs, I have improved blood oxygen saturation levels and have body functions acting closer to normal and the way they're supposed to
act and react. Long list, but approaching normal; my sinuses, breathing, heart rate, skin rejuvenation, etc. Most things I didn't realize were so ill-effected by smoking cigs because I did it for so long, starting in my formative years, that the malfunction, or less than perfect functioning, was
normal to me.
Only now that I quit smoking cigs can I admit that cigs really do
cause health problems but smoking cigs also
STOPS your body from reacting normally to health problems, the way it usually does with a nonsmoker where health issues are resolved naturally.
I had a minor surgery yesterday ~ minor but majorly painful and a real PITA kinda literally and I feel certain that were I not a chronic smoker, it just wouldn't be an issue!
Background info: Pap tested out fine after the birth of my last child in 2000 ~ tested for everything under the sun ~ tested for all sorts of diseases and STDs because I was getting an IUD meant to last for 10 years ~ nothing abnormal.
Fast Forward 9 years when I FINALLY decide to go back to the Ob/Gyn in January 2010 ~ I know, WAY too long ~ but c'est la vie! Abnormal Pap! So then I have to get a special, more intrusive biopsy (colposcopy) ~ lovely ~
NOT!
So then that comes back and I have some funky cells (aka cervical dysplasia) and I need this LEEP procedure done... Yee-flippin-fluckin-Ha!
HPV
Human papillomavirus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (You men should read this carefully too)
HPV is the cause for everything nowadays although in the 2 tests done on me, 1 came back inconclusive, the 2nd with none.
Regardless of the source, I still had the funky cells and had to get that LEEP done!
(LEEP" stands for Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure. It is a way to test and treat abnormal cell growth on the surface tissue of the cervix. LEEP is prescribed after abnormal changes in the cervix are confirmed by Pap tests and colposcopy. Abnormal cell growth on the surface of the cervix is called cervical dysplasia. Though cervical dysplasia is not cancer, over time it can worsen and lead to cancer.)
So lovely to get stretched to damnation, get this LEEP and then get cauterized and rollerballed and burned ~
NOT NOT NOT!!
Why do you tell us these creepy things, you ask!
Well, because by age 50, 80% of women have had HPV in their lifetime but their immune system gets rid of it, resolves it...
HPV Infection Facts ? National Vaccine Information Center
"The majority of women clear the HPV virus from their bodies naturally but women with risk factors, such as HIV infection,
smoking...are at higher risk for chronic HPV infection."
The Ob/Gyn told me they used to think smoking just made it worse, but now they realize smoking makes it worse
AND STOPS your body from handling it naturally, which in most cases your body would get rid of it completely!
Yes, just like those HIV infected people, if you smoke then the odds are you
will not get rid of it! Then you get to go through the BS, uncomfortable, PITAarea shite crap I went through yesterday!
03-12-2010, 04:03 PM
