“Cervix problem? *would prefer female to answer*”
This is just a short question. I've looked everywhere and I cannot find an answer and I was hoping this would shed some light.
From what I've researched you're not supposed to insert anything into your cervix at all as it could damage it. Say if you accidentally inserted something, and a fair bit of mucus came out..could anything really bad have happened?
From what I've researched you're not supposed to insert anything into your cervix at all as it could damage it. Say if you accidentally inserted something, and a fair bit of mucus came out..could anything really bad have happened?
Female | 17 years old
Complaint duration: 1 day. Very recent
Medications: ...
Conditions: ...
3 Answers
It is extremely difficult/almost impossible for you to actually insert anything (even a wire) into your cervix (canal) yourself as it is almost a pinpoint opening (unless you have given childbirth). Nonetheless, if you did manage to insert something into the canal but took it right out, the mucus discharge is normal and no harm done!.
Dr. Victoria Mondloch
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist) | Gynecology
My first question is ‘what might you have inserted into your cervix and how far in do you think it went?’
The reason I ask this is to settle a few common misconceptions about the cervix. The cervix is quite protective; it is approx. 1.25inches or 2cm long in a woman who has never birthed a baby so that is quite a distance to pass something into and then through the cervix before entry into the uterus occurs. The cervix is also quite hard; if you tap on your forehead, that’s the relative hardness of your cervix so it doesn’t easily allow any foreign object to simply penetrate. As your cervix would prepare to have your menstrual period blood pass through, it will soften enough with a normal protein called prostaglandin; this happens with the drop in Progesterone at the end of your 28day cycle and triggers your uterus to let go of the lining that it build during your 24 days or so of not bleeding (whether you are on the pill and making very little lining or whether you are working with your own hormones).
To give you some perspective, one of the ways that a pregnant cervix is prepared to induce labor if it is still ‘hard’ is to use a prostaglandin suppository that is placed in the posterior vaginal fornix underneath the cervix to help soften it and start the natural process of labor. This may take 1 or sometimes more suppositories to get the cervix prepared and soft enough to then respond to the forces of contractions and labor in order to birth a baby but it’s a process.
To give you another perspective, when a cervix has an abnormal Pap smear and a LEEP procedure is done, approx. 10mm of abnormal cervix tissue is electrocautery removed with a hot wire loop and sent as a tissue biopsy to the lab to make certain all of the abnormal tissue has been removed and the margins are clear. The body will regenerate that missing cervical tissue but it may not be as strong as it originally was. That means that in many women, they are watched in pregnancy to be certain their cervix doesn’t prematurely dilate causing preterm labor.
The reason I ask this is to settle a few common misconceptions about the cervix. The cervix is quite protective; it is approx. 1.25inches or 2cm long in a woman who has never birthed a baby so that is quite a distance to pass something into and then through the cervix before entry into the uterus occurs. The cervix is also quite hard; if you tap on your forehead, that’s the relative hardness of your cervix so it doesn’t easily allow any foreign object to simply penetrate. As your cervix would prepare to have your menstrual period blood pass through, it will soften enough with a normal protein called prostaglandin; this happens with the drop in Progesterone at the end of your 28day cycle and triggers your uterus to let go of the lining that it build during your 24 days or so of not bleeding (whether you are on the pill and making very little lining or whether you are working with your own hormones).
To give you some perspective, one of the ways that a pregnant cervix is prepared to induce labor if it is still ‘hard’ is to use a prostaglandin suppository that is placed in the posterior vaginal fornix underneath the cervix to help soften it and start the natural process of labor. This may take 1 or sometimes more suppositories to get the cervix prepared and soft enough to then respond to the forces of contractions and labor in order to birth a baby but it’s a process.
To give you another perspective, when a cervix has an abnormal Pap smear and a LEEP procedure is done, approx. 10mm of abnormal cervix tissue is electrocautery removed with a hot wire loop and sent as a tissue biopsy to the lab to make certain all of the abnormal tissue has been removed and the margins are clear. The body will regenerate that missing cervical tissue but it may not be as strong as it originally was. That means that in many women, they are watched in pregnancy to be certain their cervix doesn’t prematurely dilate causing preterm labor.
It’s unlikely that you have inserted anything into your cervix since cervix has a very narrow opening and is well hidden inside the long vagina. Mucus causes no harm.
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