Hi all, I'm stressing about my lletz which is next week. Just wondered when everyone felt alright again after it and the bleeding went away? Any positive stories would be a bonus! My smear test was over 3 months ago so I feel like I've had all this build up and waiting, I just want it over with
Hi Kmb1,
From what I've seen on the forum recovery time varies from being okay to go back to work after a couple of days to in rarer cases two weeks.
I hope that helps x
Hi,
I had the LLETZ the day I was due my period, my period started the day after and just included the odd black bit from the LLETZ, I had abdominal bloating and tenderness for around 5 days afterwards but still was able to work. I received my results after 2 weeks (was sent as urgent) luckily my results where CIN3 with clear margins (smear was high grade moderate) so not all quick results are bad.
i hope your colposcopy goes ok and you have a quick recovery
Thank you both! ??
Hello,
I had Lletz in January 2021. I was very stressed on the day, but it wasn't actually that bad - I certainly didn't feel any pain (and was awake for the procedure). I was able to go home straight away. For the next few days I had some light bleeding (and various variations of discharge which apparently is normal after lletz!), but felt fine. Then on the 7th day or so I suddenly had heavy bleeding (really heavy, completely out of nowhere) which scared me a bit but it went away that same day. From then on everything went pretty much to normal. I went back to more strenuous exercise 2 weeks after the procedure and had no problems. 2 months later and I feel 100% back to normal.
Hope this helps!
I had colposcopy 4th Feb 2021, was back to work next day, had bloating and period pains for q0 days, heavy bleeding about 5 days after. Just received results by phoning after 5 weeks as cin 3. Wasn't told clear borders just told review of treatment in 6 months.
Colposcopy itself wasn't too bad, painful with local aneasthetic going in. Feel more normal now, still waiting on next period but can do things I was doing before lletz procedure x
Hi, i had the procedure today, i was told that i could get symptoms for up to 4-6 weeks, i did start to bleed but not much after about 1 hour! The start of the procedure for me was a bit traumatic as i was so nervous and getting myself overly stressed but i has two lovely nurses with me as well who helped calm me down, i was given a local anaesthetic which made my legs shake a bit but apparently it was normal but once i was over that i was fine , hope your's goes well xx
Thanks everyone ? I will say it was pretty horrible but mainly because the speculum was far too big. Only a tiny bit of discharge since and I've been out for a long walk both days so let's hope it stays ok!
