Bleeding during intercourse; cervical polyps?

[queenofdelosers.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone,

A friend of mine has a problem. The other day she and her boyfriend were having sex and it hurt a lot, but they continued any way. After they finished, she headed to the toilet to have her post-sex pee. There was a lot of blood. She described it as not blood from a period but like when you cut yourself. She's about in the middle of her cycle. She said that she can feel something potruding from her vagina, but it doesn't hurt when she touches it.

After googling some, she thought she might have cervical polyps. Needless to say she's really freaked out and nervous about what this could mean. She'll be going to our university health clinic tomorrow. Do you think it is cervical polyps? If it is cervical polyps, what should she expect? The websites say that sometimes they need to be surgically removed. Is that an out-patient thing, and do most insurances cover it?

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[elettaria.livejournal.com]

Forgot to mention:

It's definitely an out-patient thing. It's no more hassle than a smear test, though you need to get to a doctor who can do it (i.e. you can't just have it done *during* the smear test if your smear test is being done by a nurse who isn't able to remove polyps, I had to wait for referral to a gynae). The doctor simply grasps hold of the polyp and twists it off. You can't feel the polyp being removed, so the level of discomfort is about the same as a smear test as well (speculum being the main issue for me). I have no idea how the insurance thing works, I'm in the UK, but it's a short, simple procedure.