Hi guys,

So I have spent 28 years of my life being sexual inactive (conservative upbringing). I had my pap smear in 2018 and it was normal. I moved to the UK to do my master's and decided I want to try casual hook up, because I never had any before. So I had unprotected sex with this one guy last year. Call me naive but I guess I did not have enough sex-ed to be scared of STD. I didn't know HPV is so common here.

I just tested positive for high-risk HPV and there are already cell changes. Now I have bad thoughts that I will be one of those rare cases with aggressive cancer and die really quickly.

I think I need to bring my logic back into this. Does anyone has an experience of cervical cancer developing in just one year after the viral contraction (assuming you know who gave it to you?). Should I rush the colposcopy by going private or just wait for the appointment within the next 8 weeks, it's so long:( ?

EDIT: I just realised this is the wrong section. I'm not sure if the admin could move this to the 'pre-diagnosed' one. Sorry.