My wife got a positive result along with borderline cell changes. Unfortunately hers must be persistent as we've been monogamous for 10 years.

We're waiting on her colposcopy but meanwhile I've been doing a ridiculous amount of research.

I worked out that if 80% of women get the virus at some point with 50% of those being high risk strains, and 10% being persistent, it means that at least 1 in 30 women who have ever been sexually active will have persistent HPV.

If you consider the amount of sexually active women in the U.K you can imagine we're talking millions of persistent HPV infections, but then if you think that there's 853 deaths from cervical cancer per year you can see that whilst being diagnosed with persistent HPV isn't good news, it's not a cancer diagnosis.

I just thought I'd share this info to lift the spirits of others in the same situation as my wife, hopefully non of it is misinformation, I got it all from places like cancer uk.

the only thing that is still confusing me about my wife's persistent HPV is whether or not there a chance she could spontaneously clear it or at least make it go dormant?

Every piece of information simply says 90% clear it within 2 years but is there a chance of clearing it after 10' years.

All of my wife's previous smears were fine apart from her first one at age 21 which went back to normal on her next smear.

she's now 40.

thanks