Hello all. I'm new to this and have been reading all your entries for weeks, while I was waiting for my results of my colposcopy, which is probably the only thing that's kept me sane! They came back today, and I'm cin iii and hpv pos, I knew I'd be hpv pos, as I had warts when I was 18, from 1st guy Islept with. I didn't know about the connection with warts and cervical cancer until I was pregnant with my 1st child last year. Went for my smear test after having my son, and here I am!! I'm scheduled to have leep on 28 jan. I'm so scared of all this. I'm only 26 and I feel it's just not fair! I know I'm feeling sorry for myself there. I would like to know though, is it only women who are hpv pos, that will get dysplasia? Are there other reasons too? And, because I gave those warts all those years ago, to my fiance, does that mean that we're always going to be passing this hpv back and forth to eachother, even thugh we've never had a reoccurance of warts?
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new to this and confused!
- By LUCE
- Posted January 5, 2009 at 6:17 pm · 4 replies
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- By flowershoplady
- Posted January 5, 2009 at 7:23 pm
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luce, the strains of hpv that can cause genital warts are different from the strains of hpv that can cause cervical cancer. and, many women have multiple strains. so, there's not a connection between warts and cervical cancer....the connection is between hpv and cervical cancer, and it's not the hpv strains that cause warts. clear as mud, right? well, actually, i hope it does clear things up a bit. if you or your fiance have warts, they should be treated, along with having the leep to remove the dysplasia.
hope that helped a bit!
- By flowershoplady
- Posted January 5, 2009 at 7:25 pm
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and, just because you were hpv positive when you were 18 years old doesn't mean you'll always be hpv positive. the hpv test only indicates a current status of whether you have an active hpv infection, and then it also indicates whether the active infection is from high risk and/or low risk hpv strains. the goal is to get that hpv test to be negative!!!
- By LUCE
- Posted January 5, 2009 at 7:53 pm
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thank you very much for your reply. This whole thing has been such a mystery to me. A few weeks ago, i had never even heard the word dysplasia,and leep, and now, it's something I think about everyday. It just goes to show how important smear tests are. We have never had the warts back since the first and only showing of them, thank god, but I hope that we're not re-infecting eachother all the time with hpv, even though we don't have warts, and I'll end up always being cin i, ii, or iii? I just hope that this leep clears up the dysplasia for good. I know I must sound v ignorant but this is a whole new world to me!!!
- By flowershoplady
- Posted January 5, 2009 at 9:07 pm
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luce, it's new to most women who haven't ever had an abnormal pap! please don't hesitate to ask questions. you've found a warm and supportive community here. and, you may want to use condoms until you're hpv negative again to prevent reinfection. there's some great discussion about reinfection on this message board...just go up to the search box and type in the word reinfection. and to learn more about hpv, there's some good basics at www.thehpvtest.com
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