Cervical Ectopy / Erosion and TTC

[LT87]

Hi, I’m new here :)
Just thought I’d ask this question here as I can’t find anything about it anywhere else! I have been diagnosed with a cervical ectopy (sometimes called cervical erosion)
I’ve been told by several doctors now that it doesn’t affect fertility but been TTC for 2 years and no joy. Me and my partner have both had fertility tests and all came back completely normal (which was a relief!)
My symptoms are that I’ll start spotting/discharge 5-7 days before my period is due and it continues until AF arrives. I always assume the spotting means I’m out for that month and can’t be pregnant but just wondered if anybody else has had this but had a positive pregnancy test after the spotting/discharge?? Driving myself crazy each month wondering if I should keep my hopes up or not! Thanks

Hi, I have cervical erosion too. I had spotting before finding out I was pregnant with my first and then a lot of bleeding and spotting during my pregnancy. Same as poster above I thought I had miscarried several times- even had clots and bright red bleeding! Which meant I had to have a lot of scans and checks and then eventually was told it was a cervical erosion.
During pregnancy the vessels on the cervix enlarge and are more sensitive, as well as the growing weight on the cervix and sensitive erosion cells 🤦‍♀️ I also found DTD really uncomfortable during pregnancy 🤷‍♀️
I had silver nitrate treatment which didn't work and have an appointment for referral. As far as I know the erosion doesn't affect fertility, I also have PCOS which is affecting us TTC.
Generally I bleed after sex (and sometimes during 🤦‍♀️), sometimes have random spotting between periods and have been having really long periods (last one was 3 weeks..) but could be down to PCOS. It is a pain!
I guess I wanted to pre warn you somewhat that with cervical erosion it is quite likely you would bleed during pregnancy and maybe even before you know you are pregnant like me, but you can know it is very likely the bleeding is just caused by the erosion (although obviously still get it checked!). Hope that helps x

Thanks @Sammyclaire22 and @Katnissx, even though the doctors have told me it’s nothing to worry about it’s good to know others have very similar symptoms and have still had healthy pregnancies ☺️

@LT87 thanks, it is so frustrating. I managed to get a referral today so hopefully have some answers soon.
It's been good to hear others have still got pregnant, mine does seem to be worse after ovulation which seems weird

I noticed last night that the 'lump' (of cells) has gone 🤔 I'm currently cd9 of cycle 12 ttc and it was definitely there last week 😮

Hello all, I don't know why it's taken me this long to find this thread.

I have CE too. In the luteal phase I sometimes bleed after sex, randomly spot and I also spot red blood after a bowel movement (sorry!).

I think CE makes the cervix 'friable' hence the easy bleeding.

I've been told time and time again it does not effect fertility, though I've been trying for around two years now.

It's interesting to read though that the pill can cause it; I'm sure I didn't have the spotting as soon as I stopped the pill, so maybe it took a while to get out of my system. Ironically, if only I knew how hard TTC is I wouldn't have taken the pill for that length of time!

@claireb707 hi! What do you mean by the lump of cells? 🤔

[quote selina37]@claireb707 hi! What do you mean by the lump of cells? 🤔[/quote]
I had a lump of ce cells on the end of my cervix, diagnosed by a gynae in March, which was very obvious to feel, and now it's not

Hmmm I sometimes think I've felt the same. Could it be the lump of cells is larger nearer your period though, when the lining (and such cells) normally grows?

@selina37

Hmmm I sometimes think I've felt the same. Could it be the lump of cells is larger nearer your period though, when the lining (and such cells) normally grows?

It's been there solidly with no change throughout cycle since February and all of a sudden it's gone. I don't generally get bleeding mid cycle at all and have regularly 28 ish day cycles with a 4 day period so gynae was a bit stumped but he said it was ce so who knows

Can they disappear on their own perhaps?

Having just googled, yes it can, which is good, hopefully it doesn't come back 🤞

@selina37 the bowel movement thing always scares me. Lol. But I'm glad it's now looking like my LP bleeding is just due to this and not other issues. However, TTC still isn't happening.
Some months is worse than others with the bleeding. Does anyone else find this? Or can be slight or pretty bad.

@paintfairy I hate the BM thing. I do find some months are better than others, last month was particularly good in comparison but I made a conscious effort not to keep checking everything all the time.