I heard it can stop fertitlity or there a higher chance of being less fertile and not being to carry a child at all, from wha my friend said there is another procedure if you want to have kids umm believe it was laser therapy (they freeze ur cervix) but its just pulses and burns the bad cells off!

I had the same procedure done. They told me it would not effect my chance of having children. For women who don't get paps done they have a higher chance of it progressing to cancer. It may or may not come back it depends. As long as you keep up on your paps you will be ok. Ask the doctor if they have any pamphlets on it, there is a lot of info in them. I hope I could help some.

thats what I had, sorry I guess I am confused on what she is having done.

Http://www.Universityobgyn.Com/leep.Htm
http://womenshealth.About.Com/cs/surgery/a /leepprocedure.Htm

doesn't sound like it 'stops' fertility.

A .L.E.E.P procedure should remove all the bad cells. They are on your cervix - probably not on your uterus.

You can continue to have children. Make sure to go for your repeat pap smears often. I think they suggest every 4 or 6 months for a year or two. Just to make sure they don't come back. You can have a repeat .L.E.E.P if they do.

Laser therapy isn't used if the bad cells are higher into the cervix. Laser surgery works best on cells found on the outter portion of the cervix.

Thank you all for the reply. I will ask the doctor but, does anyone know how long to wait before I can stsrt trying to have a baby?

Well, it says they give you a time period in which you can't have sex. So i'd assume you can start trying right after that's over.

My ob/gyn discovered I had these abnormal cells a couple of weeks ago and i'm 6 months pregnant. Thursday i'm going in to have some procedure to see how bad my case is. I was told because I am pregnant they will have to wait untill my baby is born to remove them.

they will probably do a colposcopy and a biopsy. Doctors sometimes do this throughout the pregnancy just to make sure everything is ok. If the biopsy comes back with a similar result as the pap smear, when the baby is 6 weeks old you may have a .L.E.E.P.

I hope everything goes well for you.

i just had a coloscopy done this past friday (i'm 13 weeks) after I had a pap test come back with abnormal cells. It made me a little uncomfortable, but nothing bad. I just have to get another pap test in 4 months to see if everything is ok. They even talked about having a l.E.E.P. Done, but would wait until after I had the baby.