HPV and cervical cancer

In May I went to the doctor for a physical and to get tested for anything and everything under the sun. Just to make sure I was healthy happy indiviual. I’ve always seemed to suffer from a very rough mentral period where I’d endore so much pain I couldn’t get out of bed and no amount of over the counter pain killers seemed to really help. And when I was younger my parents and doctors really didn’t seem to understand what was going on with me. I never had a pap done or really anything except for blood work done, which the only thing the doctors told me is take some tylonol and here’s a prescription to birth control and prozac you should be okay. I refused the prozac I told them I’m not depresseded there must be something wrong with me. But even which my very first trip to the gyno they said I was fine. Even though no tests as I recall where done. Was this an early sign?

Everything showed up happily negative in my tests except for an abnormal pap, which was the very first pap I can remember getting, cause everytime I went to the gyno when I was younger I didn’t remember the presedure being done on me before so I specifically asked to have it done this time. Good thing I did which indicated “cervical cancer”. I was shocked and so depressed and didn’t understand anything about it. I’m 21, How does one get cervical cancer at such a young age? Will I be able to have kids? Both my mom and grandmother had hystorecomy’s after having kids because of cancer, and they were about my age too.

I just had a fallow up where a coloscopy and endocervical which are quite painful (I think that’s how there both spelled), my doctor informed me I had High Risk HPV, which is known for causing cervical cancer in some women. She didn’t really explain to me anything else about it so I starting doing some of my own research. And learned that HPV is an STD and one that is also known for genital warts, and as I’ve read and how it was explained to me is that High Risk causes cervical cancer, low risk causes gential warts, and that is possible to have both however rare. Well that’s was even a bigger shock to me. I thought I knew a lot about STD’s it was the same reason for having protected sexual relations. Then I wondered and read more about the virus. Learned that men can not be accuaretely tested for the virus and apparently not even a condom can completely protect you from it, and that 80% of the population has or carriers the virus and doesn’t even know, and that many people who get the virus there body either naturally fights it off, yet still carries it, or they are treated for the visual signs of it such as genital warts.

It also seemed that a lot of women seem to go through this, although much much older. Even my own mother, and grandmother and her friends and lots of other older women I know have gone through the same thing. However the discussion of HPV was never brought up. The same thing was told to me over and over again before I discovered it was HPV. Oh it happens all the time it’s okay you’ll be fine. It’s 99.9% treatable. When 95% of women diagnosed with cervical cancer is caused by HPV.

Is is possible if you have HPV and after being diagnosed with is and treated to have kids and give them the virus and become carriers?

Will I really be fine? If I have just joined a majority of women who go through this. Is this a new way of growing up? Why isn’t more information about this STD talked about or explained to the public? And I wonder, if I have been diagnosed with a High Risk HPV and how casual casual sex has become, how many more young people will be discovered in having such a thing. Seems to me that also a vast majority of young people do not or unable to go through proper testing. As perhaps maybe this could have been caught when I was younger had doctors given me pap’s but I suppose they assumed I was too young. I don’t think anyone is really too young, and I rather have been safe then sorry. However I’m not sorry I’m continuing to live my life with a better understanding I think. And a bit better awarness of something that seems so hush hush. When I brought up the subject of cervical cancer I hear guys and women say “oh my girlfriend went through that” or “I went through that” and I think to myself, wow, another carrier, and then I think maybe it’s best to just to be alone and keep my hands to myself, and maybe I really don’t want kids after all.

Thanks for your time and I look forward to the responces.