Test of Cure during pregnancy

[Lovetolove24]

Hey I'm super worried and looking for reassurance. I'm currently 8 weeks pregnant this is my 4 pregnancy. March 24 ok had a lletz procedure for CIN 2, and now Ive just found out I'm pregnant which was not planned and contraception was used. Anyways I'm due my test of Cure in September and the doctors are willing to still go ahead with the smear despite me being pregnant as they said it will not affect pregnancy atall. I'm just so worried it will cause miscarriage 😭 i would be over 20 weeks pregnant and I dread to think I'd know the sex and be so attached that I don't think I could forgive myself if it did cause a miscarriage of I hadn't of had the lettz procedure and needed a smear I'd feel more comfortable but the not knowing of how healed my cervix is how strong it is or isnt etc . Has anyone been through something similar? It's literally driving me crazy on my mind all day.

Thanks for any advice

Hi lovely,

this is a horrible position for you to be in and I imagine very worrying for you! I don’t have any experience of this, but I was due my routine smear during pregnancy and was advised not to have it. I think the risk is low so in your case it may be the case that doing the second procedure is worth the small risk. Whereas if it’s routine it’s not. Could you ask what the risk would be if you didn’t go ahead with the procedure until after birth?

The risk isn't to the baby or of miscarriage (if there were issues with swabs etc during pregnancy they'd never be able to test for any kind of infection), it's that the cells they're testing might appear abnormal, but not be, during pregnancy. I'm due a smear during pregnancy and have just asked to be tested after the baby is here instead. Best thing you can do is call your surgery and have a conversation, but I promise your baby will be absolutely fine if you do choose to go ahead!

I have spoken with both GP and gynecology specialist and they both recommend the smear in September so they can check for any reoccurring abnormal cells however they will not do anything whilst pregnant unless it's severe they will just set a plan of treatment for after I've had baby. It's just with my cervix still recovering will it be strong enough to handle holding baby plus being messed with. I did ask this and i never really received a straight forward answer 😞. I will have to have my cervix scanned and measured at some point to see if I need a stitch. I've never heard of anyone having a smear whilst pregnant and there's just soo many horror stories online.
I appreciate your replies and positivity 😊
Xx

For what it’s worth, I also had to have cervical check during my pregnancy - my LLETZ treatment was a couple of years ago so admittedly had more time to recover, but I did have quite a large sample taken - and everything was fine. They have to explain the worst case scenarios but the majority of people won’t have any issues ❤️