Pap smear and colposcopy?

I had a pap back in sept., it came out abnormal and do said i have hpv. Went back in late march and came back the same as sept. Now i am going for a colposcope in late aug. On my referal sheet it says I have mild dysplasia and hpv effects.

I heard that a pap smear wasnt an actually diagnoses. That the colposcope was what confirms if i really do have hpv.

Can someone give me a little understanding on this...

pap smears dont tell if you have hpv.
they just tell if your cells are normal or abnormal. anybodys pap could come back abnormal for many reasons.

but they do colposcopy to determine if those abnormal cells are actually hpv on a female's cervix. i've had it done back in march and it's not that bad. they didn't have to do anything extra to me because mine as well was a mild dysplasia. now if they see that those cells are cancerous they will take some tissue from your cervix and send it to lab. and then after they confirm that it might be cancerous they will do another procedure called LEEP where they numb you up and shave some of your cervix off.

SO, good luck

pap smears just take cells from the top layer-
the colposcopy takes cells from deeper (a biopsy) to find out how deep it might go-

Mild dysplasia is a fancy word for cells that aren't normal. They aren't cancer but they aren't normal either. They don't know if they will turn to cancer or not. That is the reason for the colposcopy. (I'm too lazy to look up the spelling so I'm taking your word for it here). Anyway, they will freeze any bad parts of your cervix and that will just come out in kind of brown pieces and they sluff off. Likely that will contain any problems. You will need to come back for a pap probably every 3-6 months. It is nothing life threatening but they do want to keep an eye on it right now. Ask questions when you are at the doctors and you will be reassured.

The coloscopy is a biopsy of the questionable tissues. When I had mine I felt strong cramping, but when it was over, so was the pain. It is a fairly quick procedure, done in the Dr office. They may go in and do chryotherapy (freezing the bad tissues) depending on the results of this test. That was very painful to me, but several friends have said it wasn't near as bad as they expected. (I was very stressed so that may have made my pain worse). After wards they recommend paps every 6 mo for about 5 years if all is well.