Hi I've posted on here before. So I'll try to recap quickly.

I am mid 30s, and When my first baby was 1, In 2020, started bleeding between periods. Seemed to be the second half of my cycle, the spotting could last from 2-20 days of continuous spotting. 

Saw a doctor, referred to ultrasound had a transvaginal one and was told all was ok, it's probably hormonal, don't worry. I'd had a smear 6 months prior to this that was normal. 
 

I did worry, and it got worse, longer periods and more spotting. And heavier. So the GP sent me to gynaecology. He did a visual examination. Said try the pill.

I wasn't keen on taking the pill so I got a second opinion at a private gynaecologist. He agreed- try a pill.

Had a phone review with the previous nhs gynaecologist and he said stop worrying- try the pill. 

I eventually tried the pill at the start of 2022 and I bled for 7 months solid, eventually got called back to gynaecologist in September and they again did a visual examination and said nothing there. They said stop pill and try a coil. I was put on a waiting list.

I stopped the pill and thankfully my periods seem to regulate for three months. 
 

By this point I was due my routine smear last month- which I had done at the GUM Clinic where I told them

all my issues. Smear was taken and the nurse said I had quite an inflammed cervix and she took swabs.

a week later my smear came back- Normal! I was reassured.

although I have now spotted every day since my smear. This has carried on and I'm still spotting weeks later

I had a phone call earlier in the week to say my swab results were eventually back and I have a group b strep infection and they are going to treat it based on my symptoms and this "inflammation" they saw at the smear (which none of the gynaecologists have ever said I have in the last year!?) and they usually don't treat strep b in none pregnant women but I need to go to the hospital next week to see a doctor and get the medicine/cream. 
 

I am worried about the Inflammation I don't know what this means until I go next week. I thought the smear being ok was reassuring... until this phone call.

I don't understand why no one has picked up my cervix being inflamed when 3 gynaecologists in total looked at it across 2021/22, the last time being 4 months ago.

also worried at why I'm still spotting from The smear although I have spotted so much across the last 2.5 years Who knows. 
 

i wish I had more answers. Sick of being told "some

women just bleed" or "it's hormonal" and then ontop of this worrying about inflammation now

i get terrible Pain on examination or during sex- so much so I haven't managed to have sex for over a year and I can't live this way when I'm only young. 

i suppose I just wonder about others peoples experiences if anyone has been through similar. X