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Off topic to sferg, just so you know it being warts doesn't mean your husband hasn't been faithful.

HPV (the virus that causes warts) is debated far and wide about whether it is sexually transmitted or sexually activated. If you were a virgin before you married your husband, and if he has been faithful to you, that could be a sign that you were always a carrier of the warts and it took until now for them to surface. If either one of you had sexual relations before your married, either one of you could have been carrying around the virus for quite a while before having noticable signs/symptoms. Even then, men tend to carry the virus around while NEVER having visible symptoms even if they came into contact with the virus at birth. HPV is really a tricky virus and there is frankly not a whole ton of information out there about it that can be stated for certain. Here are some great resources for info on HPV: [url="http://www.herpes.org/drray/humanpapillomavirus101.shtml"]http://www.herpes.org/drray/humanpapillomavirus101.shtml[/url] (this link is on a herpes website, but herpes and HPV are NOT in any way connected. I didn't want to worry anyone!) [url="http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/stdhpv.htm"]http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/stdhpv.htm[/url]

One other thing, "early cancer of the cervix" and HPV (in a non visible outer wart stage, like it tends to show up on the cervix) generally go hand in hand. Not in every case, because there is no absolute when it comes to the body and disease, but in a lot of cases. HPV cells can be found in most women's cancerous cells when biopsied after the fact. It's when it's allowed to advance past the "abnormal cell" stage that doctors think is the problem. My gyn kept refering to mine as "precancerous" HPV.

I guess my point was that A) I could be speaking out of my a**, but B) don't punish your husband for something that may not necessarily be his fault. If you'd like to talk off the boards about this feel free to e-mail me. I'm by no means an expert but I've posted a LOT about my HPV and the procedures I went through to find it and (hopefully) erradicate it on this board...and the support here is great. The more we share and discover, the stronger we are.

Back on topic to ladyowl, what the other posters have said is totally true. Anything can cause an "abnormal" pap. I had one in high school because my boyfriend and I had had sex earlier that day. My gyn told me after my last abnormal pap (where in there was actually something wrong) that generally they say 3 months for a recheck because the progress of disease in the cervix/uterus is incredibly slow. So three months from today it could look practically the same, even if there is something wrong....which there probably isn't. If there is something noticably wrong in the first pap and it comes back as abnormal, they usually notice right away and will get you back in for a recheck sooner (like marshamarshamarsha said about hers).

I hope any of this endless babbling helped. Good luck everyone.