Hi,
I just got my pap smear results in mail, and before I get to an ob-gyn next week I was wandering if anyone could help me figure out what these results mean:’ bacteria coccobacilli consistant with shift in vaginal flora’? Other than this there were no other abnormalities, so that’s a big relief since I did have one abnormal pap result two years ago when I also tested positive for HPV. I guess this means some bacterial infection, but how serious is this? I know it’s not an STD because I haven’t been sexually active in quite some time now and this was my regular yearly pap screen – I don’t have any symptoms of an infection, at least nothing I could see such as increased discharge or itching and swelling.
Thanks for your help!
Hello,
to put it simply, 'shift in vaginal flora' when there is also bacteria detected means that you have bacterial vaginosis. You are obviously having a very mild case of it and it does happen that pap smear detects these changes since it looks for changes at a cellular level. Coccobacilli is a term for a whole group of bacteria that includes both chlamydia and gardinella vaginalis. The second one - gardinella - is a bacteria that's normally present in your vaginal area. In situations when your immune system is weakened for any reason, it can begin to multiply too much. I’m sure your ob-gyn will explain this better, but chances are that if you’re not experiencing any symptoms and if it’s not chlamydia that’s causing this, you most likely won’t even need antibiotics, but only suppositories that should help you restore the balance of your vaginal flora.
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BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS
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BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS
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