At the end of last year (2011) my pap smear came back irregular and long story short, I ended up have to get a LEEP done. Well, on Thursday (May 31st) I went back for a 6 month check up pap to make sure that everything would come back normal again. Well my doctor said that my cervix looked red and irritated and when she did the scraping for the pap, I started bleeding. She said it was odd but not too uncommon, so I wasn't too worried about it until now. I refrained from my normal exercise to let my cervix heal, and the bleeding had almost subsided until last night. When I woke up this morning, from the look of my pad it seems to be worse than when I left her office on Thursday. I'm going to skip my exercise until all the bleeding has completely stopped to give my cervix time to heal, but now I'm worried. Has anyone else experienced this, or anything similar?
I am 25 years old and my husband and I have no kids yet and I have not had any discomfort or irregular bleeding until I went on Thursday for the pap smear.
My doctor said she would call me with the result, good or bad this time. Usually if they come back normal, they will just mail a postcard. It usually takes about 3-4 business days to get the results, but of course I am left to worry the entire weekend now!!
You did not mention any problems with spotting after intercourse, or during exercise, once your LEEP was healed. Thus I would suspect that it was vigor with which the PAP smear was taken which triggered the bleed. A GYN may be extra thorough in getting a sample after a woman has had an abnormal PAP result.
You are doing the right thing in skipping exercise until the bleeding improves. This is also the chance that the bleeding is coincidental to the PAP and was actually caused by breakthrough bleeding from hormonal birth control or, if not on birth control, spotting from a mid-cycle ovulation.
I would hope this PAP done on Thursday will return as normal. Be sure and give your GYN the feedback about the prolonged spotting.
Yours,
Jane
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