Thanks for your response. I see that by your opening statement their is an assumption of having HPV, but how is that possible when the circumstances don't add up to the diagnosis? This has been the nagging question. I have done lots of research on this since my OBGYN's office gave me the first test results. I've contacted the CDC and they gave me great information, but their were gaps and I still had questions. And I hoped to hear from someone that would understand my POV.
When I had the second test done my Doctor still operated under the assumption that I had HPV, and never said, your first test could have been a false positive. To comment on your opening statement, a third test for me, would re-assure me that the first test was incorrect. Especially when my Doctor was insensitive after I got a second test of negative and then getting the remark from my Doctor that I probably had the virus. My doctor explained that I could only get it thru skin to skin sexual contact but even after knowing my husband and I for many many years he still made the comment that I still had the virus. That's why I'm so ticked off. I'm also ticked off that his staff had such poor PR and that they would actually make assumptions as to why I have HPV rather than allowing for the possibility that the test could have been wrong, which is why I got the second test to begin with. But even after getting the second test I was still not re-assured, because there are small percentages of people that acquire HPV without sexual contact.
And yes I do find it rather distressing, because knowing my life and sexual history as well as my husbands, the findings of a positive HPV test is distressing. I don't know anyone that takes the news of having an STD likely. So the one question that comes to mind is either there is some other way that HPV is transmitted or they need to stop calling it definitavely an STD. That's why I wanted the third test. I kept getting the attitude that I had the Virus, thus implying that I or my husband were unfaithful. Or that we had prior relationships. What I was saying was being ignored by my provider and I don't take that very likely. And I don't know anyone in their right mind that would not be hopping mad at this attitude and treatment.
My feelings are my own, but if the shoe were on the other foot, I'm certain anyone would want answers.
I don't internalize what's not actually there and both my husband and I were both floored by my Doctor and his staff . I thank you for your opinion, but I don't appreciate the statment :they were providing you with facts, and then you filled in the blanks on your own, I was not treated in an appropriate way, and I would appreciate not having my concern being taken so lightly.
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Thanks for your response. I see that by your opening statement their is an assumption of having HPV, but how is that possible when the circumstances don't add up to the diagnosis? This has been the nagging question. I have done lots of research on this since my OBGYN's office gave me the first test results. I've contacted the CDC and they gave me great information, but their were gaps and I still had questions. And I hoped to hear from someone that would understand my POV.
When I had the second test done my Doctor still operated under the assumption that I had HPV, and never said, your first test could have been a false positive. To comment on your opening statement, a third test for me, would re-assure me that the first test was incorrect. Especially when my Doctor was insensitive after I got a second test of negative and then getting the remark from my Doctor that I probably had the virus. My doctor explained that I could only get it thru skin to skin sexual contact but even after knowing my husband and I for many many years he still made the comment that I still had the virus. That's why I'm so ticked off. I'm also ticked off that his staff had such poor PR and that they would actually make assumptions as to why I have HPV rather than allowing for the possibility that the test could have been wrong, which is why I got the second test to begin with. But even after getting the second test I was still not re-assured, because there are small percentages of people that acquire HPV without sexual contact.
And yes I do find it rather distressing, because knowing my life and sexual history as well as my husbands, the findings of a positive HPV test is distressing. I don't know anyone that takes the news of having an STD likely. So the one question that comes to mind is either there is some other way that HPV is transmitted or they need to stop calling it definitavely an STD. That's why I wanted the third test. I kept getting the attitude that I had the Virus, thus implying that I or my husband were unfaithful. Or that we had prior relationships. What I was saying was being ignored by my provider and I don't take that very likely. And I don't know anyone in their right mind that would not be hopping mad at this attitude and treatment.
My feelings are my own, but if the shoe were on the other foot, I'm certain anyone would want answers.
September 2, 2009 - 8:28amI don't internalize what's not actually there and both my husband and I were both floored by my Doctor and his staff . I thank you for your opinion, but I don't appreciate the statment :they were providing you with facts, and then you filled in the blanks on your own, I was not treated in an appropriate way, and I would appreciate not having my concern being taken so lightly.
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