Cervical Screening
Cold coagulation
The worst thing about treatment was having the anaesthetic in her cervix. She had bad period pain and vaginal discharge for a week after treatment.
The worst thing about treatment was having the anaesthetic in her cervix. She had bad period pain and vaginal discharge for a week after treatment.
The worst thing was having to have a local anaesthetic in my cervix, that was the most scary thing, you see this great big needle coming towards you and having the injection inside, that's quite urgh it just makes you really squeamish and I don't like injections at the best of times. I'm a bit of a wimp, I'm a wimp when it comes to anything to do with hospitals and doctors. So I, so they did that and you know it wasn't pleasant but it wasn't agony or anything it was just unpleasant and I think because I tense up it makes it worse. And then he did whatever he had to do that was it really. I sort of walked home bow legged and, and once the anaesthetic wore off it was quite painful and it felt like you had really bad period pain that sort of feeling so I just sort of had to take neurofen and stuff.
Last reviewed October 2015.
Last updated February 2013.
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