Hi All,
I'm so glad to find this board. Sorry so for the long post. I'm 35 and have had regular Paps every year since I was 19. I've never had anything other than a normal pap until last September when my new OB (last one left practice) told me my Pap was normal but my HPV test came back positive. I was floored. I had been engaged for 9 months, and had been in the relationship for almost 4 years. My doctor explained that there was no good way to know when I had been affected and that it could have been that long ago.
He recommended coming back in 6 months which I did, and the Pap came back HPV positive, and abnormal. Four months later at a repeat the HPV was still positive but now I was CIN I. According to my doctor changes don't normally move this fast and I had a coloposcopy done. I'm awaiting the results but according to my Dr. he thinks I will need a LEEP or a CONE. I'm married now and my husband and I had planned on trying to start a family next month! Now, that's on hold. I don't know what to do. I asked my doctor if he thought I could wait until having a baby to do something and he said "No, because right after having the baby you'd most likey die from cervical cancer". I know he meant from the fast progression. I was floored. I don't want to die but I can't imagine not being able to have a child. That would kill me in a different way.
I'm supposed to hear back next week on the biopsy and I have a new set of questions to ask thanks to HereandNow but I don't know what to do.
If anyone has been in this situatiuon I'd really appreciate your thoughts!
So scared...