Allow me to walk you through everything you need to know about your pap smear and HPV results, and the questions to ask your doctor so that you can make informed decisions about your health going forward.

A lot of women feel completely caught off guard when they get an abnormal pap smear result. Sometimes they’ve gone their whole life without an abnormal pap, and out of nowhere they’re testing positive for HPV. It can be very scary and overwhelming, and then you start searching everywhere for information. I want you to have the information you’re probably not getting from your doctor’s office.

Oftentimes, the doctor’s office doesn’t call you when you have a normal result. Then when you do have an abnormal result, they may only have someone call to tell you that, and you’re left wondering what it means and what to do. 

Even when you speak with the doctor or nurse, they might just say, come back in six or twelve months and we’ll recheck it. That means you have six to twelve months to worry — and yes, there are absolutely things you can be doing during that time. 

There are ways to support your body to clear HPV, get it to negative, and keep it negative. I can say this after helping thousands of women do exactly that, using a holistic, natural approach.

Why Your OBGYN May Not Have This Information

OBGYNs are trained to do procedures. If there are abnormal cells, they can offer a procedure to remove them. They are not trained in nutrition, herbs, nutrients, lifestyle medicine, or stress recovery. It’s not that there’s nothing you can do. It’s just that there is nothing more in their toolbox.

Importantly, surgeries and procedures do not kill the HPV virus. Research shows that even after a LEEP procedure or a hysterectomy, women can still test positive for HPV, because the procedure doesn’t remove the virus. 

Even the vaccine is not 100% effective. That’s why so many women are testing positive and given the “wait-and-see” plan — which, to me, is not really a plan.

Understanding Your Pap Smear Results

The first step is to ask your doctor’s office for your actual test results. Look for three things. First, was the sample adequate — were they able to see the cells they needed to see on your cervix and inside the endocervical canal? Second, did they see any abnormal cells, and if so, how severe are they? Third, is HPV present and/or detected?

More than 90% of abnormal cells on the cervix are caused by high-risk HPV, so most times the abnormal cells and HPV go together. However, you can have HPV positive with no abnormal cells — and that’s actually a good sign. It means your body has so far been able to prevent the virus from causing abnormal cells. 

Our goal is to keep it that way: cells stay normal, HPV goes to negative, and your immune system builds a memory to protect you even if you’re re-exposed.

The Spectrum of Severity for Pap Smear Results

Think of your pap smear results on a spectrum. Normal results will say “negative intraepithelial lesion.” Moving up the spectrum, the next level is inflammation on the cervix, called ASCUS — atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance. 

After that comes CIN1, low-grade dysplasia. At this stage, a surgical procedure is not required because it’s well established that the body and cervix can heal low-grade abnormal cells on their own.

When it crosses into CIN2 or CIN3, that’s severe dysplasia, and your doctor will likely start talking about a procedure — whether that’s a LEEP, a conization or cold knife cone biopsy, or possibly a hysterectomy. 

Again, none of these procedures remove the virus, so HPV can continue to cause abnormal cells on the cervix or in the vagina afterward. Beyond CIN3 is carcinoma in situ and carcinoma, at which point you’ll want to meet with a gynecological oncologist.

As a naturopathic doctor, I’m trained to offer a procedure called escharotics as an alternative to address CIN2 and CIN3. Escharotics is the use of natural substances, including enzymes, herbs, and nutrients, to slough off abnormal cells. 

Escharotics can be used safely and effectively for CIN2 and CIN3 as an alternative to a LEEP. If that’s your situation, I encourage you to reach out to my office to find out if you’re a good candidate.

Addressing the Virus, Not Just the Cells

Whether you choose a LEEP, surgery, or escharotics, I strongly encourage you not to stop there. You need to follow an HPV protocol to help your body eliminate the virus and get it to negative, so it can’t cause a recurrence. 

I hear from hundreds of women every year who had a procedure and 3 to 6 months later, HPV caused abnormal cells again. Some women have been dealing with HPV for decades, have had multiple procedures, and still have not cleared the virus.

There is well-established research on natural substances that help with HPV, including vitamin C, vitamin A, folate, green tea, curcumin, and mushrooms. The list is actually quite long. 

Many women research on their own and start taking supplements, but when I review what they’re taking, it is virtually never at clinically effective doses — which means the likelihood of them working is quite low. That’s when I help women to get their supplements on the right track to be effective.

Finding Your Susceptibilities to HPV

The key question your doctor’s office is likely not ask is: what is making your body susceptible to HPV? 

Stress exposure, gut health, microbiome imbalances, estrogen levels after menopause — all of these can increase your susceptibility, and tests exist to identify them. Many of these tests may even be covered by your insurance. 

I can help you identify nutrient deficiencies, blood sugar issues, hormone imbalances, toxin exposures, and gut health issues, and guide you to high-quality products at clinically effective doses to address them.

Your Next Steps

Ask your doctor what they recommend, when they want to retest, and at what point they would recommend a procedure. That gives you your timeline. If they want to recheck in six months, you have six months to implement diet changes, lifestyle changes, stress recovery, the right supplements, and vaginal suppositories. There’s a high likelihood that you’ll be able to heal your cervix and clear the HPV in that time.

What I find is that HPV is often just one sign that your body is asking for attention — and going through this process can help you heal from anxiety, depression, migraines, sleep issues, hormone imbalances, gut issues, and more. This could be your opportunity to change the way you relate to your body and your health. 

Here’s what I want you to hold onto: every single one of the susceptibilities to HPV can be tested for, addressed, and resolved. You are not powerless in this — quite the opposite. By asking the right questions and doing the right tests, you can take real, meaningful control of your health and give your immune system exactly what it needs to protect you.

The standard medical system doesn’t run the right tests, and most practitioners aren’t trained to interpret and act on the results. But that doesn’t mean your options are limited — it means you need the right guide. I’ve helped patients around the world clear HPV and go on to feel better than they had in years, because when you rebalance your whole system, everything improves — your energy, your sleep, your mood, your resilience.

Easy Ways to Get Started

You can download my HPV Recovery Guide, which is a free PDF. You’ll see all the success cases of women who’ve been through this process and found freedom from high-risk HPV so that you can have hope that it’s possible for you too. I see women achieving it every day.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to my office. My team would be happy to connect with you and help you know what your next best step is to free yourself from HPV. My team can also help coordinate shipping worldwide. You don’t have to figure it out on your own. Click here to set up a call with my team.

If you’d like to get a better sense of my approach, I welcome you to join my next free How to Get Rid of HPV online workshop where I help you to create a plan to get HPV out of your life for good. From there, you might choose to join the Heal HPV Kickstart Program, for the initial steps of my protocol, including diet changes and supplements, over the next 30 days.

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Or you can begin with the comprehensive Say Goodbye to HPV Program, which is 3 months and includes everything you need to implement my full protocol and address all eight susceptibilities with live, group support, and access to testing and vaginal suppositories.

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