Hi, I had emergency surgery on the 16/02/16 to remove a 'mass/lesion' from the posterior wall soft tissue. This was not an external growing mass but internal within tissue and protruding due to increasing size. The location is lower third of my vagina.
The lump was hard, unmovable and apparently 'tethered?' and not painful although sitting down was causing a problem due to the pressure on surrounding areas.
I had an urgent referral from GP to Emergency at Hop. I seemed to go up the ladder very fast as saw 2 gynaecology Dr's who did not know what it was. The more senior of the two then referred me same afternoon to the Consultant. He saw the 'mass' the and literally he listed me for emergency surgery the following day. He did not biopsy the mass prior to surgery as he was unable to insert a needle as i believe too dense. He said there there was internal blood surrounding the 'mass/lesion' in other words it had been drawing on a blood supply to promote its growth. The lump came up and enlarged very fast, literally within 4 weeks it went from nothing noticeable to 2". He appeared to think it was quite rare.
By the way they ruled out cysts, Bartolins, Gartners and Skenes.
The surgeon did a complete excision of the 'mass/lesion'.
I am wondering if anybody can help me on here as i still haven't had the pathology results back yet. It seems to be taking an extraordinary amount of time to get the results. I have called the Consultants secretary and waiting for a call from her tomorrow. In the meantime i really need to know what i am potentially dealing with here and feel in the dark completely. So far i am on working day 12 from surgery or two weeks and 2 days post op.
Is the length of time it takes for results reassuring or the opposite? Surely prelim initial path results come back quickly, within 3 days?? If all clear they tell you sooner, don't they? If more conclusive testing this takes longer?
I am pretty much resigned to worst case scenarios here and feel able to face a bad result whilst at the same time i am eternally optimistic for a good one! :-)
Anybody help?
