[Question #7537] New HR HPV Pap Result - GYN is telling me my husband cheated. Please help.
54 months ago
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Please excuse my rambling. I’m still floored by what my doctor is saying.
I’m a 31 year old female. No health issues. I’ve had a pap done almost every year since I was 18 and I’ve never had an abnormal result. I’ve been married and in a monogamous relationship for 7.5 years.
My last pap was on 6/6/2019 and everything came back negative. It was the first pap since I turned 30 & they said I tested negative for HPV.
Flash forward to this past year and I had a baby in early spring. I had ongoing pain and bleeding for longer than with my first baby, so the new practice I was at said let’s do a full work up and pap on 12/11/2020. The nurse called back a week later and told me I tested positive for low risk HPV. I freaked out and asked if my husband was cheating because I’ve never had an abnormal pap and my last HPV test was negative. She said this was absolutely not proof of infidelity and that he likely gave it to me at the beginning of our relationship. I wasn’t happy, but I accepted it. I was still confused about everything, so I called my old doctor. He agreed. If it was low risk HPV, my husband probably gave it to me years ago and it wasn’t cause for alarm. He asked me to send over the records so he could look at them. I did.
He called me back and said everything he told me was inaccurate. He doesn’t know why the nurse told me it was low risk because all the paperwork said I tested positive for high risk HPV. He said they ran the exact same tests he did the year prior. He then told me he was sorry to have to tell me, but I deserved to know, the only way I was negative for HR HPV in June 2019 and positive in December 2020 is if I was exposed to it within the last year and a half. He said if I didn’t cheat, my husband did because the virility of these HR strains don’t allow them to go that long without causing an abnormal pap.
My husband is swearing on everything he didn’t cheat. Please help.
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
54 months ago
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54 months ago
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
54 months ago
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54 months ago
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
54 months ago
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