Sorry if this is too much detail, but when inserting my diaphragm I found this stalk-like growth which seems to protude out of my cervix into the vagina. It gets longer when you pull, feels like about a 1cm but doesn't hurt or bleed - yeah, i'm grossed out, too.

I spent to days freaking out about the 'alien' inside of me, then I rang a clinic. No reason to panic, apparently. Just get it checked out, they said. Right.

I have a long and tedious history of problems with my cervix. Spotting, bleeding during/after sex, one doc suggested I should put a stop to domestic violence in my relationship - still wish i'd had the guts to tell her what I thought of that. Then treatment for erosions (x 3), finally some bright spark found I had a cervical polyp and got rid of the damn thing.

Then nothing for two years (barring mild paranoia after six years of trotting my cervix out for every doctor I could find).

And now i've sprouted this 'alien'. And i'm just so cheesed off (not all that again!), but also scared. I'm 31. I seem to have nothing but grief with my reproductive equipment. Where is it all going to end?

And now, to top it all off, my period is late. 37 days. I tend to be all over the place anyway, but that's long, even for me. Does anybody know whether cervical polyps (or fibroids or whatever else i'm managed to grow in my uterus/cervix) can delay your period? I've done at test, and it came out negative.

Now i'm just mildly puzzled, a little angry, but mostly scared. Any thoughts?