Woman, 26, Given Bleak Prognosis After She 'Brushed Off' Post-Sex Bleeding as IUD Side Effect

A 26-year-old female who knowledgeable bleeding aft activity thought it was a broadside effect from her contraception — but it was shape 3 cervical cancer.  

Jasmin McKee, who lives successful nan English metropolis of Southampton, said that she’d ever “put off” her yearly pap smear test — nan gynecological exam that swabs nan cervix and tin observe abnormal aliases cancerous cells — because she was nervous, according to The Daily Mail.

But past February, McKee began experiencing bleeding aft sex. She said she ignored nan symptom, attributing it to her precocious inserted intrauterine device, aliases IUD. 

“No 1 ever wants to deliberation nan worst, truthful that's why I didn't really deliberation thing of nan bleeding and conscionable brushed it off,” McKee said. "Irregular bleeding" is not an uncommon broadside effect of an IUD according to Yale Medicine, which notes that astir women acquisition nan denotation aft insertion of their IUD.

Any different symptoms, McKee said, were chalked up to her ongoing menstrual struggles. “I'd had rather dense periods and bad backmost symptom and would beryllium really tired but I ever put it down to hormones and my period,” she said. 

When she did be her yearly gynecological exam, McKee’s pap trial discovered abnormal cells — and later tests confirmed she had shape 3 cervical cancer. 

“It's for illustration nan world stops moving a small bit,” McKee said. “They're utilizing each these large words and talking astatine you successful a measurement that's really difficult to grasp. It's that numb feeling, I don't deliberation I've stopped emotion for illustration that. It's for illustration I'm surviving successful 'the in-between.’ ” 

She opted to acquisition laser curen alternatively of radiation and chemotherapy successful nan hopes that she could sphere her fertility and person children successful nan future, but was later fixed nan bleak news that nan curen had failed.

In February, McKee began radiation treatment. “The expert said it was apt I won't beryllium capable to person children people and that's nan worst result for me,” said McKee, who froze her eggs. 

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Before starting chemotherapy, McKee trim her hairsbreadth and donated it, explaining, “I thought, ‘If I'm going to suffer my hairsbreadth I mightiness arsenic good do it connected my position and do thing bully pinch it.’ “

She said she’s “grateful” she yet had her pap test, explaining, “If I hadn't had it done past I astir apt would've conscionable kept connected putting it off.”

McKee explained, “You tin beryllium and overthink it and you mightiness publication different women's experiences online but it's truthful easy to do. It's virtually 10 to 15 minutes of your clip and it tin prevention your life.”