LEEP procedure to remove cancerous cells
...from my cervix. Lidocane injection given to numb, which did not numb. I told them it didn't work very well on me (previous experience with a variety of uncomfortable but thankfully less painful procedures tells me this), but they ignored that saying it would be fine.
Procedure done anyway. It is touted as painless but it isn't, hence, the lidocane in the first place.
Like having your cervix burned with soldering iron. I was ready to murder once I could stop screaming.
(womanwhocanonlylivewithdogs, Sun 1 Aug 2010, 18:41, 2 replies)

been there
and it didn't get any better after it was done, too. told the lady they should have teddy bears ready to hand out to women getting this outpatient surgery. (cause it is considered a surgery.) yes, soldering iron applied to the very deepest part of your inner bits. miserable pain. but no more cancer cells, right??? woo! (i've been cleared ever since too. don't care how much it hurts, now: we're alive!)
(fai is rocking khaz modan server as of, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 2:17, closed)

I got it back again
A few months later - straight from CIN 1 to cancerous in the shortest time the consultant had ever seen. So off we go for another LEEP. Thankfully with working numby stuff.
I think a stiff drink would have been preferable to a teddy bear afterwards for me but i would have taken comfort wherever !

I was told if it reoccured a third time as aggressively it would be removal of the whole shebang for me. Which did not please me, as i was only 30 at the time and had had no kids. Luckily i don't want em and have other issues preventing me from having them but, still.
Fingers crossed I've been ok for the last seven years. Glad to hear you have been ok since too.
(womanwhocanonlylivewithdogs, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 18:17, closed)