Anyone with a cervix or has a cervix living with you….Please get a Pap test. Let me explain my overwhelming need to share with you. A deadly STD out there is causing the cases of cervical cancer to skyrocket.

(Yesterday I got some sad news that abnormal cells had now invaded my uterus. (H told me he had an EA, but it was a PA, I got busy with life, ignored Pap testing….and then found out that I had abnormal cells….Oh, yes, he then confessed. Double whammy.)

You can show no symptoms…the warts can be internal, or not at all. I never had any. Antibiotics can mask many symptoms. Condoms offer no protection.

Get a Pap test every 6 months if there has been an A in your life. Even if they told you that they never "did the deed." Right, believe them. And get ye to the doctor. Oh, and you cheating husbands, if you think you feel bad that you are betraying your wife about not having sex with someone else, to cover your butt...imagine how you would feel if she believed you and then got cervical cancer...your OP could be an angel of death.

What is HPV?
HPV, or Human Papilloma Virus is commonly called the wart virus. There are over 60 types of HPV that have been identified. Types 1, 3 and 5 can cause warts on the hands and feet of children. Types 6 and 11 can cause warts on men's and women's bottoms (genital warts). Other types, such as 16, 18, 31, 33, and 35 may not cause warts but can cause changes to the cells of your vagina or cervix, such as dysplasia.
What is cervical dysplasia?
Cervical dysplasia is a premalignant or precancerous change to the cells of your cervix. There are three types of cervical dysplasia: mild, moderate, and severe. Mild dysplasia is by far the most common, and probably is not a true premalignant disease. Mild dysplasia generally represents a tissue response to the HPV virus. Up to 70% of women with mild dysplasia will have the cells become normal without any treatment. However, even mild dysplasia can progress to more significant disease. Moderate and severe dysplasia are treated when they are discovered, because of their higher rates of turning into cancer.
What causes cervical dysplasia?
HPV is one of the most frequent causes of cervical dysplasia. In addition, cigarette smoking has been found to be a cause. Women who smoke concentrate the chemicals nicotine and cotinine into their cervix, which harms the cells. Men also concentrate these chemicals into their genital secretions, and can bathe the cervix with these chemicals during intercourse. Male partners of women with cervical dysplasia should not smoke. Some nutritional deficiencies also can cause cervical dysplasia. The National Cancer Institute recommends that women consume five servings of fresh vegetables or fruits each day. If you cannot do this, consider taking a daily multivitamin with antioxidants such as Vitamin E or beta-carotene.
How can you tell if I have HPV?
Only one person in 100 with HPV will exhibit any warts. The PAP smear often detects HPV. Even if HPV is not noted on the PAP smear, it is 80% to 90% certain that you have the virus if you have been diagnosed with any type of cervical dysplasia.
How did I get the virus!?
You generally obtain the virus through sex contact. Condoms can prevent the spread of many diseases, but not HPV. HPV is found on all the genital tissues, and a condom on the penis usually will not prevent transmission of HPV. The virus can lay dormant on your cervix for 20 years before it causes warts or changes to the cells. If your physician has just discovered an abnormal PAP smear, you may not have recently acquired HPV.
Can I get rid of HPV and dysplasia?
Even if your entire cervix is burned or frozen, the virus generally still remains. The goal of treatment is not elimination of the virus, but for the body's immune system to control the virus. Immune system function can be enhanced by not smoking and by taking multivitamins. Cervical dysplasia can be removed by many techniques, and your physician can discuss these treatments with you if they are needed. Women with normal immune system function can be cured of cervical dysplasia. Follow your physician's instructions to improve your chances of keeping the cervix free of dysplasia.

star*bump Great info kitty!!! meow!

Thanks DKitty ....

BTDT already... stage 3 Cervical Cancer survivor here.

Husband was having yet ANOTHER affair while I was dealing with the rad treatments from his sharing nature, great guy.

Seems pretty unfair, all this fallout because they (WS) are feeling so selfish, not to mention disrespectful, uncaring and irresponsible.

Hope everyone here takes the possibility of Cancer from STDs serious and regardless of your WS's pleas of being STD-free or not having a PA, they take their health and wellness into their own hands.

Love,
Jo

my word, Kitty,
my prayers are with you.
great info, and thank you. now i am scared again. don't those bozo's know they are putting their "loved-ones" in major harms way when they stray?!!!

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by 2ndfiddle:
<strong>my word, Kitty,
my prayers are with you.
great info, and thank you. now i am scared again. don't those bozo's know they are putting their "loved-ones" in major harms way when they stray?!!!</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Never got an answer on that one. Those of us that came of age in the free-love 70s and haven't been listening to all the health information on STD's...we're stunned. God knew that sex was a physical act...hence the commandment. All the liberated talk we heard decades ago couldn't change the fact that emotions don't carry a virus...people do.

After spending all this time keeping my body healthy...so I could always be a well companion...then to have a emotional as well as physical hurt given to me by who I trusted the most. It is hard.

My OB/GYN said that in this day and age of overwhelming statistics on people who have mutiple sex partners being carriers of STDs..."these guys don't appreciate that a healthy virus-free wife is the most precious playing field out there."

Thanks for your prayers. I just have to accept it and fix it. It is overwhelmingly hard on my H, this is so concrete about his betrayal. He can't really "see" a broken heart, but he does understand that the same womb that bore our children has been placed as serious risk.

Jo, thanks for sharing how you have survived. </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Hope everyone here takes the possibility of Cancer from STDs serious and regardless of your WS's pleas of being STD-free or not having a PA, they take their health and wellness into their own hands.
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Remember WSs!!...those OP's that are married, are probaly looking elsewhere because their S is unfaithful...you are getting what their husband/wife brought home to their bed. If you want to be in that loop of virus sharing, you are in it forever. But don't bring us into it. Keep us clean. Move out. Or take some time and imagine your private parts infected with cute warts, lasered, removed, scared or perhaps some running sores. That takes all the romance out of an affair, doesn't it?

heavy sigh <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" />

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by 2ndfiddle:
<strong>heavy sigh <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Oh 2ndFiddle...why the sour note? Can we help?