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Originally posted by SummerChild
You usually have to ask them to include HPV. However, if the pap comes back abnormal, this is a possible sign that you have HPV but it does not have to come up as abnormal pap at all. It's best to ask them to check for this also. With Herpes, I don't think that it would come up in your pap. The doc might not notice either if you don't have an outbreak at the time of your pap. With Herpes, I think that you want to get a blood test to see if the virus is in your blood I think.
Any medical folk out there???
SC
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That sounds about right. You can have a normal Pap and still be infected with HPV, and you can go in for a regular pap (no symptoms), and the cells come back abnormal and find out you have HPV. (confusing right?) The Herpes test, you have to ask for if I'm not mistaken.