So You Got An Abnormal Pap. Now What?
- By
Julia Austin
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What if you’ve had an irregular pap before?
I had an abnormal pap smear about a decade ago. Then all my paps were normal since then, and I had one partner the entire time. So I wondered: is it possible that the HPV strain I had a decade ago (which was not a high-risk strain) mutated into this new strain? Dr. Johnson assured me that the strains cannot mutate. So that just means that, somewhere along the line, I picked up this other, riskier strain. But when?
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