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[ardat-lili.livejournal.com]

So I had my biopsy today. Which consisted of taking 3 different samples. I had previously been under the impression that I didn't have HPV, miscommunication, I suppose, because they told me I have it for sure today. And then they sent me packing, back into the now horridly scary, lonely world. I go back next week to see if the samples were cancerous or not. For the time being, I'm just trying to adjust to accepting I have HPV. I wrote more about it in my own journal, the whole ordeal.. How have you accepted this?..For those afflicted?.. I'm afraid of being alone forever.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

My doctor told me that though about 10% of women have been diagnosed with HPV, current estimates are that 50% of women actually have it. The rest just don't know it.

You're not alone. I had it for quite awhile before it was diagnosed, and my doctor thought it was something else for a full year before it was diagnosed for sure.