wanda555
12-17-2007, 08:09 PM
How can you have or get hpv when you don't have a cervix?
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MIssy28
12-18-2007, 06:20 PM
Why would you not have a cervix? HPV can still affect the outside if it is the strain that causes warts.
wanda555
12-22-2007, 02:16 PM
Because I have had a total hysterectomy and everything is gone. Plus I just had a check-up with my gyn, and I don't have any warts. I'm married and my husband and I don't sleep around.
Shshi
12-24-2007, 11:51 PM
Hi,
I'm assuming you've had an abnormal Pap and are wondering how that could happen since you don't have a cervix.
The cells that line the cervix are virtually identical to those that line the vagina and your cervical cuff (the area where the vagina was stitched closed when your cervix was removed.) HPV can cause the same changes to these cells as it can to the cervical cells.
I had a hysterectomy in 2002 and was diagnosed with vaginal carcinoma in situ (cancer which hasn't spread) in February of this year. The abnormal cells were on my cervical cuff.
Also, HPV can lie dormant in your body for years before causing problems, so you may have been infected long ago and just now having problems.
I'm assuming you've had an abnormal Pap and are wondering how that could happen since you don't have a cervix.
The cells that line the cervix are virtually identical to those that line the vagina and your cervical cuff (the area where the vagina was stitched closed when your cervix was removed.) HPV can cause the same changes to these cells as it can to the cervical cells.
I had a hysterectomy in 2002 and was diagnosed with vaginal carcinoma in situ (cancer which hasn't spread) in February of this year. The abnormal cells were on my cervical cuff.
Also, HPV can lie dormant in your body for years before causing problems, so you may have been infected long ago and just now having problems.
wanda555
12-25-2007, 02:05 PM
Thanks for the info!