Patient's question:
I had the laser treatment 3 months ago, and then went for a follow-up check-up 2 months later. When I just finished the treatment for a month, my period didn't come. Then in the second month, it arrived. When I went for the follow-up check-up after finishing the treatment, the doctor said my condition wasn't fully healed and asked me to come back on the third day of my next period to do the laser again. I don't want to do it again. I want to ask the doctor if doing it once more will heal it completely? Will it affect my ability to get pregnant in the future?Doctor's answer:
Cervical erosion, the most common gynecological disease. Due to the stimulation of inflammatory secretions, the squamous epithelial cells of the cervical canal external orifice are shed, covered by fibrotic columnar epithelium. The surface is bright red, smooth or uneven, and this change is called "cervical erosion." Physical treatment methods include LEEP (Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure), focused ultrasound, TMS's improving spectral therapy, cryotherapy, electrocautery, and carbon dioxide laser. The principle of treatment is to use heat or cold effects to denature and shed the collagen protein of cervical erosion, replacing it with...