Hi there,

I'm wanting to post about my experience after the LLETZ procedure I had done just under a week ago and my experience. I also want to warn everyone in advance that this isn't for the faint hearted and in no way do I want to scare anyone as my experience is 1 in a million but I need some sort of support and advice.

So less than a week ago I went to my coloscopy appointment just to get checked as my smear came back high risk HPV and abnormal cells. There was no appointment to get a biopsy done whatsoever but while I was being checked they said they needed a biopsy due to what they could see it had spread into my birth canal. I had a bad feeling at this point due to the fact that a coloscopy in itself is terrifying but to get a biopsy done as well was a while new level of scary. But they said it's better getting it done then and there than having to travel over an hour to get a biopsy done. Well all went well until they hit a vein and struggled to stop it bleeding. This lasted a while to the point the freeze was wearing off and I could feel the heat inside me where they were trying to seal the opening to stop the bleeding. By the end of the appointment all was well and I was allowed to go home. I was in shock when I left as to how bad the experience was. 

An hour after I had the procedure done I was on the train home when I started bleeding, to which I thought was just a heavy period but then it soaked through my pad and my jeans. An hour went by still a heavy period like bleed until I got home, absolutely mortified I had needed to walk in public soaked in blood. When I got home I put on comfy clothes and sat down when I experience a God almighty gush of blood, ran to the bathroom and I would not stop bleeding. I called 999 instantly. To summarise this all up, I waited at home for 3 and a half hours for an ambulance to come to take me to hospital as I had no other transport to take me as it's out of town. I had been left to bleed out for 8 hours before I even arrived at the hospital to then spend another 8 hours of them trying to stop the bleeding. By 4am my body went into shock, I had 2 blood transfusions and emergency surgery which should of been done hours before hand as for 10 hours I was bleeding out hundreds of clots the size of golf balls. I had a PV aneurysm which was caused by my LLETZ. I am absolutely traumatised after all of this and they have told me if my biospy comes back and it's not good then I need more treatment! Not a chance in hell! I have 4 kids my youngest being 5 months old and it nearly killed me. I'm not doing again but when I asked for a hysterectomy while at hospital they said no. I'm beyond scared and I really don't know what I can do or my options.

Please can some one help