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living with HPV
This is really not a question, I just wanted to lay out here my experience after a year of getting tested positive for HPV CIN2. I remember that when I came to this forum I was full of fear, doubts, and lots lots of questions... I bet you are here too for the same reasons, let me tell you after I got my test positive I got a LEEP which went beautifully, and I had gone under 1 control one more to come in a month.. I want to lay here the words that: YOU WILL MAKE IT!! you will go through this and WILL FIND JOY again...it is a process, if you are reading this for the same HPV reasons, hold to your support groups and pals, they will help you go under what ever you need to go. Go Go GO!
Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure = LEEP
Hi Sandra,
maybe by this time you already know what LEEP stands for any way I look up it for you and this is what I found at:
LINK: http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/surgery/a/leepprocedure.htm
If your doctor has told you that you need to have a LEEP procedure, it's because your annual Pap smear indicated the presence of abnormal cervical cells, or cervical dysplasia. While the loop electrosurgical excision procedure, or LEEP procedure, may make you wonder if your doctor wants you to jump. The LEEP procedure has nothing to do with jumping. The LEEP procedure is one of several procedures your doctor has available to help diagnose and treat abnormal cervical cells. Other procedures your doctor may want you to have either before or during the LEEP procedure include, a colposcopy and / or a cone biopsy.
LEEP uses a thin wire loop electrode which is attached to an electrosurgical generator. The generator transmits a painless electrical current that quickly cuts away the affected cervical tissue in the immediate area of the loop wire. This causes the abnormal cells to rapidly heat and burst, and separates the tissue as the loop wire moves through the cervix.
This technique allows your physician to send the excised tissue to the lab for further evaluation which insures that the lesion was completely removed, as well as allowing for a more accurate assessment of the abnormal area.
maybe by this time you already know what LEEP stands for any way I look up it for you and this is what I found at:
LINK: http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/surgery/a/leepprocedure.htm
If your doctor has told you that you need to have a LEEP procedure, it's because your annual Pap smear indicated the presence of abnormal cervical cells, or cervical dysplasia. While the loop electrosurgical excision procedure, or LEEP procedure, may make you wonder if your doctor wants you to jump. The LEEP procedure has nothing to do with jumping. The LEEP procedure is one of several procedures your doctor has available to help diagnose and treat abnormal cervical cells. Other procedures your doctor may want you to have either before or during the LEEP procedure include, a colposcopy and / or a cone biopsy.
LEEP uses a thin wire loop electrode which is attached to an electrosurgical generator. The generator transmits a painless electrical current that quickly cuts away the affected cervical tissue in the immediate area of the loop wire. This causes the abnormal cells to rapidly heat and burst, and separates the tissue as the loop wire moves through the cervix.
This technique allows your physician to send the excised tissue to the lab for further evaluation which insures that the lesion was completely removed, as well as allowing for a more accurate assessment of the abnormal area.
what is a LEEP?
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