LEEP PROCEDURE-DOES IT HURT

I had a LEEP a month ago yesterday. I had no bleeding, but discharge for 2 weeks non-stop...from brown, to yellowish-geen, to black. There was spurradic tissue loss also. Some of it was large clumps, but most were small pieces. It had a fowl odor. Then, I had my normally scheduled perioid for 5 days.

I was very pleased not to have any discharge or bleeding for a solid week....THEN, Monday, I started bleeding again. It was like I got another cycle...only 3 weeks early! I called the doc's office to see if there was something wrong. The triage (sp?) nurse said that it was nothing to be concerned about, and should last 24 hours. I'm now about 50 hours into this "new period," and it seems to be getting worse. The bleeding is very heavy...more so than any other period that I have ever had. I'm already anemic, which has never caused any problems before, but now I'm feeling very tired, and falling asleep when I drive to work. I don't know if the 2 are connected, but that's the only thing that I can think of...

If anyone else has experienced this, please let me know...

I had the LEEP 10 days ago. If you're afraid of the shot, just don't look. I felt better about it because I didn't look and just imagined the smallest needle in the world. The shot is less painful than the biopsy, and it's worth it! I did not feel a thing after the injection. My advice is don't look at what the doctor is doing, and take long deep breaths, then just before the injection, talk to the nurse about something that makes you happy, the distraction helps.

I hate to break it to you girls, but yes, the leep hurts A LOT. The numbing procedure did not hurt, however, it also did not work! I felt EVERYTHING. It is my staunch opinion that gynocology as a whole is in the dark ages. Even dentists have laughing gas to ease your worries, we get nothing. Oh and thanks for the pain meds for afterwards! NOT. Ibuprofen does not do anything to ease it. I was in bed all day after in agony after 1000mg of Advil. Sure you can elect surgery and get Percocet (I had breast augmentation 3 years ago) but when you have to have something done related to cancer treatment, you get over the counter c**p that doesn't touch the pain. I will NEVER go through this again. Insist your doctor put you out, it will be worth it even if it costs extra because again, since GYN is in the dark ages, the insurance probably doesn't cover anethesia!!! I know for certain my UHC Golden Rule plan won't pay for a tubiligation. Sure they'll dole out $25000 for me to have a kid, but not $2000 to prevent one. Does this make sense at ALL!?!?!? What a joke. No wonder this earth is over populated and there is more poverty and hungry kids than ever. I am so disgusted with the whole practice. Millions of women every day are being tortured by being put through midevil practices like leeps. I liken it to female castration. The entire discipline of GYN needs a major overhaul. We should band together and insist on humane treatment!!! Our voices shall be heard. God bless all.

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hi, i had a leep done 4 days ago. the lidocaine they gave me to numb my cervix was wicked painful!! she said i must have a really sensitive area. she gave me 3 shots of it. the second time it felt like she poked all the way through to my tailbone and i yelled and started crying immediately!! it was really really painful!! the procedure itself did not hurt, but thats probably because she gave me 3 shots of the lidocaine!! i wasn't really having any pain. mostly discomfort. the only time i do have pain is when i cough or sneeze because all the muscles contract. i've been getting the weird brown discharge, but my doctor told me it was going to be milky. i've passed a few pieces that look like left behind scraped off cervix tissue, when i urinate. but today i went to go to the bathroom and on my panty liner was a solid mass a little bigger than the size of a half dollar and the thickness of 4-5 pennies stacked on top of each other. i'm freaking out right now, i do not know if this is normal. all the offices are closed, so i'm waiting for the on call physician to call me back. it's really weird though! and it smells really bad. and now my stomach is really hurting, and i don't know if it is real pain or if my stomach is just all jumbled up because i'm freaking out and stressing out!! please someone tell me if they think this is normal. i don't know if i can trust these doctors. the whole reason i had to go through this stupid sh*t is because my doctor missed the fact that last october my pap came back as mild dysplasia. didn't want to monitor me or anything. she just told me everything was fine. i've been trying to get her to give me a pap because i think i may have endometriosis, but she has been refusing all year. I didn't find out about the dysplasia until i finally went to another doctor!! so i finally went to someone else and now i have really severe/advanced dysplasia/pre-cancer cells!! i'm so pissed!! i don't know what to do anymore. but if i do have cancer i'm gonna sue that doc for everything she is worth because this could have been prevented from getting this bad if she had done her job!! i'm 23 years old!! this is ridiculous!! please help!! thank you.

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I had a LEEP done today it was not so bad but the shot they gave to numb me was awful as soon as she gave it to me i went numb all over my lips my fingers my toes everything even my ears started buzzing it was freaky it only lasted about 2 minutes but it still was the worst part of the procedure i was wondering if anyone had ever experienced this i told the doctor but she said she had never hear of it made me feel really safe lol

My procedure went just fine...the neede hurt of course, but it is supposed to. The LEEP was not as bad as the Colposcopy when they took biopsies...that HURT! The discharge is the suckiest part about my LEEP experience. What in teh Heck is this coffee, ash lookin junk? How can something like that come out of me? Good luck everybody!

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My doctor told me that my pap smear came back abnormal and i have HPV. LUCKY ME! gosh :'( I had my Colposcopy i was nervous and crying just because i was nervous but i guess the crying helped me because i really didn't feel anything (until afterward i wanted to be in bed for days and the yuckiest discharge). I don't know why i'm scared because i've been through reconstructive jaw surgery which the after effects were the worst thing i've been through my life (couldn't eat anything solid JUST LIQUIDS for 6 weeks).
Anyhow my colpo came back that i had pre cancerous cells LUCKY ME AGAIN I've been reading about other females experiences and some of them just FREAKED me out i'm so scared , so scared i want to reschedule and never go back but i have to do this if not later on it can effect me having children and so forth.....IM JUST SO SCAREDDDDDDDDDDDDDD my heart is in my mouth

Hello all....just wanted to let you almost 2 years ago I had an abnormal pap. My first one EVER. I was soooo scared and found myself surfing on the internet to find out everything I can about this. Actually, I still find myself reading over the same information that I read amost 2 years ago and try to find new sites as well. Well....I have had about 5 pap smears that came back abnormal for LSIL and when I have a colposcopy they came back as ACGUS. In May of 08', I have a repeat pap that came back as HSIL (moderate dysplasia). They scheduled me for a leep which I had a few weeks later. The results from the biopsy of the leep came back as LSIL. I was happy it wasn't HSIL, but kind of upset, because when doing my research I read that my Midwife should have done a colposcopy when the pap showed high grade before doing the LEEP. The LEEP was painful and very uncomfortable, but managed to get through it. After the LEEP, I followed up with my Midwife for a repeat pap in October and the pap came back high grade again. She wan't to do another colposcopy, but I wouldn't get in until December. I decided that it would probaly be better if I went to a regular gyno. instead of a midwife, because I was started to loose faith in the sytem. I found a new doctor, who I had my records sent to and had a colposcopy with her. The results came back LSIL. She still wants to do another LEEP, because I am 28 and want to have children in the near future, she thinks it is best to get this taken care of before I get or try to get pregnant. I am scheduled for a LEEP procuded at the end of December under general anastetic. I do not smoke, have not had many sexual partners, and married in a committed relationship and tak a multi vitamin, vitamin C, vitamin E, and folic acid daily. I am not sure if the doctor didn't remove all of the bad cells the first time or if the bad cells just came back within the 5 months. I am just soooo confused! Does anyone have an suggestions on anything else I can do to ensure the bad cells don't come back??

I AM 45 YEARS OLD AND JUST HAD MY 2ND COPOSCOPY. IT WAS A PIECE OF CAKE. NO PAIN AND VERY LITTLE BLEEDING AFTERWARD. I AM NOW SCHEDULE FOR A LEEP PROCEDURE AND FROM WHAT I HAVE HEARD ABOUT BEING AWAKE I AM GLAD MY DR PUT ME OUT FOR ABOUT 15 MINUTES AND THE PROCEDURE IS OVER. MANY DRS DO THIS IN THERE OFFICE BUT MY DR ONLY DOES IT IN THE HOSPITAL. I AM GLAD. SO FOR ALL YOU WOMEN OUT THERE WHO ARE AFRAID OF BEING AWAKE FOR THIS PROCEDURE ASK YOUR DR ABOUT PUTTING YOU OUT. IT IS DEFINITLY THE WAY TO GO! ;-)

Hey. Just got home from my leep today. I had them put me to sleep. I don't remember the injection hurting or anything for that matter. Other than feeling a little crampy and slight period-like bleeding I'm fine. Hope this helps.

for all those people saying LEEP doesn't hurt YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR MINDS!!!! omg i had mine the other day and WOW i would go through childbirth 8x in a row before going through that again!!! i felt EVERYTHING! all 3 needles, the hot as hell wire scraping the inside of me omg i thought i was going to pass out!!! i was screaming and hysterical crying...the dr said "well i told you that you were going to feel some warmth" get the hell outta here you jerk! i felt the devils freaking spear scraping my freaking cervix, warmth my a**!!!! i was FURIOUS! i felt like i was living in a 3rd world country i mean Jesus Christ!! i told him if i ever have to go through that again I WILL NOT BE AWAKE! INSIST TO YOUR DOCTOR THAT YOU ARE PUT TO SLEEP! BS about the colp being worse, id take the colp before the LEEP!

I'm with her on this one. Insist you be put out. I had mine done on 2-3-09 and oh my holy hell! The injections hurt (I got 5) and I felt every bit of the LEEP... all 4 "swipes", the touching up, the cauterization... I felt it all. It is close to feeling like being raped with a red hot poker. My poor cervix wanted to run and hide and I'm not going to do that again... Maybe if I am put completely out, but not if I have to be awake. And the smell is horrible, absolutely horrible!

I don't mean to scare anyone reading this, because it is a good way to get rid of the bad cells and to test how bad it really is, I'm just not suggesting you be awake for it is all.

So far for my recovery I've had cramps and period like discharge, which started out red and a bit heavish and is not light and brownish with some clots coming out. so far that's about all.

Well, girls. I had my LEEP last Friday, Feb 13, 2009. It was NO fun! I felt the needle prick and I felt most of the procedure too! My blood pressure shot up so most of the time I just laid there with my eyes closed, sweating and unable to hear anything for the buzzing in my head! It seemed to take forever! I am awaiting my results still. I know it has to be done but it sucks!

Yup, I had mine on Monday of this week & it pretty much sucked too. They told me to take a Valium an hr before the procedure & then another one a half hr later if I didn't feel the effects. They gave me a total of 3 pills, the last one for right after the procedure. Let me tell you, I ended up taking all three spread out in the hour before the procedure & it did not affect me at all. I had asked if they could knock me out, but they said taking the Valium would be enough to chill me out. HA! Luckily, my Dr sprayed my cervix with Hurricaine which numbs it & then used the needle to inject the Lidocaine, so I felt small pokes, but nothing to horrible. The scraping hurt a little bit, but she numbed me really good, so I guess I was fortunate there. I feel like some of you had some really crappy Dr's out there. You shouldn't have to feel any of it, I mean it is a surgery for God's sake!