Re: GYNECOLOGIC: bleeding during sex
From: William F. von Almen, II, MD, FACOG (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat May 17 17:05:06 2008
CAB
If pap and cultures are negative, this may just be chronic cervicitis
and there is not much you will be able to do about this...Dr. von Almen
At Sat, 17 May 2008, cab wrote:
>
>I am 26 years old and I have recently begun to suffer from bleeding
>during intercourse - not after, just during. I do not experience any
>pain. My boyfriend is not particularly large. I was not a virgin
>before I met him and I never experienced this problem before. I have
>been sleeping with my boyfriend for about a year and a half. The first
>time it happened was a couple months ago - I didn't think much of it
>because I had not taken my birth control right that week and I figured
>my period came early. It happened again recently and I could not think
>of any reason. I went to my doctor and she was unable to find anything
>wrong with me. All of my paps have been normal, I do not have an STD or
>an infection and I have never been pregnant. I am on the pill. She
>used a large cutip to poke my cervix lightly and it immediately started
>to bleed. She used silver nitrate to cover the area and told me I have
>nothing to be worried about. Is this normal? Do I need to have
>additional tests done? I am scared to have sex again and I find this
>extremely embarrasing and gross.
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