Symptoms of cervical cancer? HPV Positive

Recently diagnosed with cervical cancer
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Hi, 

I'm new here and am really worried. I have only ever had 1 sexual partner and I was his first too. Fast forward 20 years and I took a private HPV test in the hope of avoiding a smear at my surgery as in this area, if HPV is negative then the cells aren't examined. Past 2 smears were clear of HPV and I expected this to be the same given my sexual history. So I paid for a private at home test and got the shock of my life when a gynaecologist called to say I have high risk HPV sub type 33!!

Now my mind is all over the place! I've always had spotting before a period but for the past 2 years, I've had a combination of light bleeding and spotting (red and brown) as opposed to spotting dark brown only and it lasts for 6-8 days rather than 4-5 days. I also have a clear slimy discharge throughout the month, rather than just the time I'm ovulating.

Do these sound like symptoms of cervical cancer? I had a smear yesterday to put the HPV result into context do now have a two week wait and I'm driving myself insane with worry! 

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Hi! These symptoms are not specific. It can be a Nabot's cyst, ectopion, endocercevitis, etc. Only liquid cytology can confirm or refute the concerns. In any case, you need to fully examine and agree. HPV does not cause cancer. We need a favorable environment in the form of background diseases. I needed to be more persistent and maybe I didn't have any cancer. My doctor wasn't cancer-wary. I thought nothing bad was going to happen to me.

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My smear test result is in... HPV NEGATIVE!! Clearly one result is wrong, but which one? The private one done through Check4cancer or the NHS one? I wish my cells had been examined, but because the HPV came back as negative, cytology was not performed... I don't know if I can relax or if I need to pursue additional tests in case the first HPV test that came back positive last month was correct and I could therefore have abnormal cells... 

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Same thing happened to me - I'm wondering if the NHS only tests for a few types (ie 16&18)? Does anyone know?That would explain the difference in results.

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I know that the NHS doesn't just check for types 16 and 18 as have ' other' and cin 2. I asked as was considering and am going ahead with a vaccine