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CIN1 can clear by itself. You need to monitor it closely.

You have low grade cell changes due to HPV. Your HPV test was positive so this means you have one of the high-risk HPV types. Having high risk HPV types does not mean that you are at a higher risk for cervical cancer it only means that you have one or more of the high risk HPV types. Most HPV tests do not tell us what specific HPV type or types we carry.

Most cervical cell changes due LSIL will regress. Treatments are not usually needed for these cell changes due to the high rate in which these cell changes do regress.

Your doctor may have recommended that you follow up in six month or a year for another Pap test. The use of condoms may help in the regression of the virus. Condoms forever are not necessary usually about six months helps your body fight the virus.

Personal experience with VaIN 2/3 and VIN CIS

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/understandingce...

LSIL—low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion. Low-grade means that there are early changes in the size and shape of cells. Intraepithelial refers to the layer of cells that forms the surface of the cervix. LSILs are considered mild abnormalities caused by HPV infection. LSILs are sometimes referred to as mild dysplasia (dysplasia means abnormal cells that are not cancer but have the potential to become cancer). They may also be referred to as cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN-1). (Neoplasia means an abnormal growth of cells, and the number describes how much of the thickness of the lining of the cervix contains abnormal cells—only the top layer, in this case.)

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Detec...

The majority of HPV infections are self-limited and spontaneously clear within a several-year period as a result of cell-mediated immunity. In one study, two-thirds of adolescents infected with low-risk HPV types spontaneously cleared their infections by 12 months, as did over half of those infected with high-risk HPV types (FIGURE 1).5 By 23 months, more than 80% had cleared their HPV infections. In another follow-up study of adolescents and young women with LSIL, 91% of HPV-infected individuals cleared their infections after 36 months of follow-up.10 However, many women who spontaneously clear one specific type of HPV become infected with another HPV type. This is part of the reason that infection with multiple types of HPV is quite common in sexually active adolescents and young women.

It is unclear how many HPV-infected women who become HPV DNA negative actually have complete viral clearance and how many continue to harbor the viral genome in the basal cells of the squamous epithelium, but at such a low copy number that they cannot be detected using standard molecular tests. Such undetectable, low-level infections are usually referred to as “latent infections” and are similar to the latent infections that are seen with herpes simplex virus and varicella zoster.

http://www.jfponline.com/Pages.asp?AID=7892&issue=...

When one partner has HPV lesions caused by a particular virus type, it is most likely that the other partner shares the same virus type, although this is often impossible to prove. Several studies indicate that "shared HPV" does not "ping-pong" back and forth. There is evidence that using condoms may decrease the viral exposure and speed the clearance of HPV related disease. The decreased viral load may allow the individual's own immune system a better chance of eliminating the virus.

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It means you do have precancerous cells but they aren't serious. You'll probably be scheduled for a freezing session (or the loop) and that'll be that. You'll of course want to have a pap every 6 months until your obgyn says otherwise.