Thread: Thick Uterine Lining

Hello everyone. I am new here, and hoping to find some answers and relieve my concerns. I am 34 years old, and have a history of HPV. I have been having severe bleeding during periods, and they are lasting a lot longer than usual (10 days at times). I went for a pap smear a few weeks ago, and the Dr. also wanted to do an endometrial biopsy since I was having the heavy bleeding. However, she was unsuccesful in getting it because she said the uterine lining was to thick, and I was very uncomfortable during the procedure so she did not want to keep trying. I had a LEAP procedure several years back due to some abnormal cells on my cervix. This time my pap smear came back normal. She wanted to do an ultrasound to check on the thickness of my uterine wall. So yesterday I went for the ultrasound, and shortly thereafter I seen the Dr. She tells me that my uterinie lining is 24mm and 5mm is normal. She then explains that she really needs to get the biopsy and so she did it in the office again after numbing my cervix, and was able to get the sample. Is this amount of thickness on the uterus lining a sign of cancer. Since it is a holiday weekend, I won't have test results back till middle of next week, and I am worrying myself sick. Any body been through the same thing?

I had the same thing happen to me a year ago. I was having really bad cramps and back pains so I went to the doctor. They did an ultrasound and discovered that I had a very thick uterine lining and they also discovered that I had fibroid tumors... 5 very large tumors... ( 2 grapefruit sized, 3 tennis ball sized) They did a biopsy in the doctors office and it came back normal and a few weeks later I had surgery to remove the fibroids which the biopsy came back normal on those as well. They don't know why the uterine lining is so thick but they said everything is normal so it's nothing to worry about.