I find cervical smear appointments very stressful and I can’t really deal with this stress right now as I have lots of other things to deal with.
I ordered a private HPV test which is a self administered simple vaginal swab and it came back negative for all the high risk HPV. I’m in a long term marriage so I don’t have other sexual partners.
I’m very overdue for my cervical smear but I’ve heard they don’t look further anymore if a sample is HPV negative. My previous smears years ago were all fine. It means they won’t look for abnormal cells unless I’m positive for HPV.
I know there are cases when GP practices delete you from the patient list if you refuse to attend smears. Do I need to worry about that or they will be satisfied with the private negative HPV result? I receive reminders from the practice from time to time.