Mistaken Pap Result

I had a pap smear last summer at planned parenthood and the result came back that I had abnormal cells with a sub-finding that it was possible that I had Herpes 2. I went in for a follow up appointment 6 month later. I had another abnormal cells so I went in for a colopscopy and found out I had HPV. The gynecologist said that it should have shown up on my pap smears. I have never had a herpes outbreak or lesions of any kind. Is it possible that the sub-finding was wrong and it was really just caused by HPV?

[gracefromHHP]

you need to follow up on this with a type specific herpes igg blood test to see what your status is.  

herpes won't show up on pap tests unless you have an active lesion on your cervix at the time you have the pap test which doesn't happen very often at all.  

grace