would love to hear from anyone who has had a cervical eroption

[Emma27]

I have been suffering from midcycle and post cotial bleeding for the past 6 months. After many tests and changes of contraception to try to find out what was wrong my ob told me I have a cervical eroption. He gave me a an antibotic to take as he felt it was caused by a low grade infection. Two weeks later it has improved but not entirely and he asked me to make an appointment for a diathermy (causterizing).

Would love to hear from anyone who has had the same condition and if you recovered and how. Did you find oit what caused it? I am planning on going off the pill at the end of this cycle ( dh is having a vasectomy) so hopefully this will also help.

Such a stressful thing to go through and I am just hoping hoping I can recover and our sex life can return to how it was.

Hopefully I posted this in the right forum

[Emma27]

this condition is also known as cervical erosion

[wysiwyg]

It was a while ago (8 years or so) and am not totally sure that it was the same thing as I don't really remember, but I kept suffering from post coital bleeding and then went and had a day procedure cauterizing. After that I never had any trouble. I never did anything to find out what caused it initially (I was on the pill at the time - in the UK one called Mercilon) - I had, had some abnormal PAP smears but nothing indicating anything sinister and so from what I recall the doc said that the cauterization might help there too, so I kept having more regular PAP smears (once a year) for a while after and they were all clear so then back on the 3 yearly cycle. I remember the bleeding being quite scary the first time it happened, but it wasn't happening for long as they booked me in for the cauterizing pretty much as soon as I saw the specialist (it was all pre-children and I had no midcycle bleeding so maybe easier to diagnose?)

[Emma27]

Thanks for the reply Wsiwyg. Did you find the procedure painful and what type of anathestic do they use?

[wysiwyg]

It was under a general anesthetic (was in the UK) and I didn't find it painful at all - worst bit was the fasting required for the general anesthetic.

[Emma27]

Just back from an appointment with my ob and I am going to have the operation in July.

How many days were you off your feet for?

Thanks for answering my questions

[wysiwyg]

I would think just the one day off the feet, and prob gave it a week before DTD , but I can't really remember. Is funny am not sure if is because now live other side of the world but there seems to be alot of this type of thing I have difficulty remembering (e.g. at dentist today asking about previous dental work which would have been done around the same time).