cervical cancer/ HPV. help please?
Posted on Jul 15, 2009 under breast cancer |ok heresz the deal. sorry in advance for being so long.
my step father is taking me to get my physical for school soon. and i heard him telling my mom [who is in iraq btw] that he wantsz me on birth control and thinking about asking my doc to put me on some. yes, i am sexually active. but they think im not. im sure the doc is going to ask me if i am or not, and as you expected i cant have him knowing. ESPCIALLY MY MOTHER. she is all the wayy in iraq. she shouldnt be having to worry about her 16 year old daughter getting pregnant.
now, if i tell the doctor im NOT sexually active and he givesz me the pills, what happensz?? and wat are waysz i can tell him without my step father knowing??
another question..
if by anyway i do tell my doc im sexually active and he tellsz me i need to get a PAP test, will my parentsz find out?? beucase they cant. atleast not until im 18.
one more question please.
me and my boyfriend were virgins. if i get a PAP test and it drags out to where i have HPV does that mean he gave it to me?? i dont understnd it to much. tried looking it up but nothing is giving the right answer. and same thing goesz with cervical cancer?? did he give me it? or my body did it to itself?? im so confused please help me.
please and thank you guysz. this is something i really need to know. my physical is only daysz away and i need answers. that you 
July 15th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Even though you are underage patient doctor confidentiality is still in play, so your doctor isn’t allowed to tell your parents if you’re sexually active or not. And I would say you won’t have to worry with HPV if your bf was a virgin.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:39 am
honey, you definately need to tell the doctor the truth, it is better then ending up suddenly pregnant, and if he wants to give you a pap test then thats fine, it is for your own safety and i am sure that you will not have hpv or anything because you both were virgins. but do get the pap test just to be on the safe side you don’t want to end up with an std and ask him all these question, he will tell you exactly what you need to know.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Okay, first of all, the doctor will not assume that your step father is coming into the exam with you so unless he wants to (which, idk, does he normally go in with you?) or you request him to, he won’t be in the room with you. Even if he does go in the room with you, almost all doctors ask the parents to go outside before they ask a patient if they’re sexually active (specifically because they know girls just like you will lie if they’re mom or dad are in the room).
If worse comes to worse, absolutely nothing bad will happen if you say you’re not sexually active and the doctor gives you the pills. Lots of women who arn’t sexually active take the pill because it helps regulate periods and ease cramps. But that being said, IF there’s a way to tell your doctor DO IT. That’s the kind of thing they REALLY should know.
IF you’re going to keep having sex (which, I’m sorry for the lecture, but an unmarried 16 year old SHOULD NOT be doing) DO go on the pill, and make him wear a condom.
I’m not sure about whether or not a regular doctor would recommend a PAP ( a gyn would) so I can’t answer that one. But if you and you’re boyfriends were both virgins, the chance of you getting HPV (which are genital warts, a virus, btw) is VERY small, but yes it would mean he gave it to you, which is why you make him wear a condom (condoms DON’T make it impossible to catch STDs, they just make it harder. Another reason not to be having sex). As for cervical cancer, it’s not like the commercials make it sound. It’s not like you have sex and BAM- cervical cancer. It’s a cancer just like any other that you can get whether or not you’re having sex or if you have HPV, although both make it much more likely.
I hope all this made sense and helped you, but let me lecture just one last time. It’s obvious you don’t know even the basics of STD or pregnancy prevention, and until you know even that much (let alone the fact that you’re only 16) you really shouldn’t be having sex. You’re right: your mom in Iraq shouldn’t have to worry about her 16 year old daughter getting pregnant.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Hmmm you got a pap done and it said HPV positive, that means your boyfriend was not a virgin when he met you. HPV is only transmitted if someone is infected. Take care of yourself and you can keep it under control but you need to get pap smears often to check on or check for abnormal cells. And if you have warts you’ll just need to have them removed whenever you have an outbreak. You will forever be contagious so wear a condom with everyone until you settle down one day. Good luck and don’t worry about it, so many people have HPV.