HPV post-menopause

[Yvette BG]

Hi, folks-- I'm post-menopausal, couple questions. Hadn't had a period for 1 1/2 yrs., then got 5 days
light bleeding/spotting/cramping. Have also had more hot flashes, etc. the past 6 months, after
going for about a year (thankfully) with very few. How often does this happen (late/isolated "period")
to women this far post-menopause? Had 2 abnormal Pap tests (May and Oct.), HPV negative in May
(Digene test) and HPV High Risk positive (Cervista) in Oct. (Then I asked for strain-specific HPV 16
and HPV 18 test on the sample, which came back negative.) Dr. did colposcopy since had "precancerous" lesion
that was treated w/ 2-stage cautery about 34 years ago; no cancer, lesions, nothing out of the ordinary/unexpected given my age when she did the colposcopy in Oct. Guess the HPV Cervista could have been a false positive. How often are the doctors seeing false positives in post-menopausal women? I do have risk factors--early age of 1st sexual intercourse, multiple partners, high stress lately which could reactivate a dormant virus from what I understand--but have been mutually exclusive with husband for 25 years. Thoughts? Feedback? Thanks!

[Wildjane]

I can't answer this but I am 67 and was married 40 years. 3 years ago my husband left me and I go into a relationship with a really young man. Then three years later we broke up. I caught Herpes from him in the first 6 months. Now after we broke up , after 15 years of negative pap and HPV testing I test positive for HPV 16. I had a cone biopsy in 2004 and was CIN 1 at that time negative for HPV.  Every year after that I was checked. Now I have it. Nobody in their right mind thinks this is a recurrence. This guy was 39 when we started and his previous GF was 22. I think when we were breaking up he was seeing a 20 year old, they ALL petty much have it. The only studies worth a damn are out of Sweden for anyone over really even 50 (at the high end) I am pretty sure this is a new infection but of course now I have to have a damn colposcopy and have a stenotic cervix and it is very difficult and unreliable post menopause any way and I am almost 30 years post menopause and had multiple gyn surgeries and a massive cone. This is barbaric. I know a few women my age in the same boat. Two had failed colposcopy and one was repeated under sedation and still unreliable. Now they want to do another awake one, but she says she is in her 70s and would rather die. That is what our Healthcare has come to. I am going to go to another state and try to get a sedated one, but who knows. I need some other work done for incontinence and prolapse but I am afraid . You know, I don't blame you for wondering if it was a false positive or not. I don't think anybody knows. They are so caught up in the vaccine crap that they have left out a whole generation. I asked for the vaccine before I started with this man as I knew there was no test for men and that I had been negative from the start.  But they wouldn't give it to me. So if I die from this ? It is on them, but they don't care , to them I am just old and in the way.  I sued AH Robbins for the Dalkon Shield and won, on my own in the 1980s before all the class action suits. I may do it again against the AMA , Insurance companies and CDC and Medicare for refusing this for me. Their refusal may well have killed me. I might be the waling dead Look up states for being able to do a good colposcopy on a postmenopausal woman. Dismal. PS. I am not surprised at all that nobody answered for obvious reasons. Nobody knows squat.