SCARED!! - Abnormal Paps, HPV!!

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Registered: 12-21-2007
SCARED!! - Abnormal Paps, HPV!!
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Mon, 02-11-2008 - 3:00pm

Hi everyone,


I'm new to the health boards and I have a problem. I'm 31 years old, unmarried with no kids (would definitely like to have kids someday), but the problem is I have HPV and every single time I have a pap it comes back abnormal and then I get sent for a colposcopy. The paps show hpv with strains that are responsible most of the time for cervical cancer, so I have high risk HPV. I just got another abnormal pap and have a colposcopy scheduled for the 25th. I feel like this is something I'm going to have to go through the rest of my life! Every single pap is going to come back abnormal and I'm going to have to have a piece of my cervix chopped off for that test? This cant be good. I'm getting really scared because I'm afraid I'm still young and this is going to lead to atleast a partial hysterectomy, which even still would leave me unable to have children. I'm very scared and feel awful now.

Jacki

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Registered: 03-24-2003
Tue, 02-12-2008 - 10:42am

Like I told someone else, I've had abnormal PAPs since I was 17, and now, 30 years later, I have three kids.

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