Hi everyone,
I haven't posted here before but I'm familiar with the site and cannot find any info about this online so am here to hopefully get people's insights from their own experience. Posting in AIBU for traffic as I doubt this would get much notice on another board.
I've done a private home cervical HPV testing kit and just got the results back telling me I have high-risk HPV detected, but not strain 16 or 18. I'm in my late twenties and have never had a cervical screening before due to vaginismus. I only became aware of the existence of home HPV tests recently and ordered one immediately.
I'm trying to get a GP appointment as I know I now need to have a proper cervical screening and they'll want to take their own sample for testing (which I'm dreading), but I haven't managed to get an appointment yet.
I've done a lot of research and know that the chances of it actually turning into cancer is statistically low, however, this is because most women's bodies clear the virus spontaneously within two years. The reason I'm so concerned is that I'm worried this won't happen for me and I'll have persistent high-risk HPV because I had verrucas for over a decade and have had warts for over two decades, so my body doesn't have a good track record of clearing HPV spontaneously. I've tried to find information online about whether your body struggling to clear low-risk HPV strains like the ones that cause warts is an indication that your body will also struggle to clear high-risk cervical strains, but can't find any information whatsoever.
So, if anyone reading this has a similar history of their body being crap at clearing warts/verrucas and has also had a diagnosis of high-risk cervical HPV, please could you tell me what happened in your case? How long did your cervical HPV take to clear? Did you end up with persistent HPV? Did you have complications?
Thanks in advance.