 [ Symptoms ] can i be pregnant even with spotting i had a period in may nothing in june then for maybe a few hours extremely light spotting in july me and my husband had sex a lot in those three months now i have tender breast and my husband said they are a lot bigger and swollen different then when im ready to start im sick to my stomach but more towards early evening the bottom of my stomach feels alittle tight but not hard i do not really care the very little spotting i had in july and it was like a darker color not red can i be preg [ Disease ] your age may be one of the more important determinants in whether hpv testing is recommended among younger women infections with hpv are very common often a younger woman is immune system is able to fight off an hpv infection thus some type of pap smear may be the best choice for screening by contrast if a women in her 30s or older has a positive test for high risk hpv it might be assumed that she has a more worrisome persisting infection 90 of cervical cancers occur in unscreened or under screened women demay 2000 so you do need to get screenings but the type and interval of screening is going to depend upon your age and probably high risk hpv screening tests liquid based paps do reduce the number of “false negative” results in the majority of women ask your gyn if your pap will be a liquid type and if it will be reviewed by automated and human screeners if you have one of the high risk hpv subtypes by dna testing request a copy of the results for your files so you will know which subtype you have even if you have received a hpv vaccination you should will still need a pap smear the recommended interval is still under discussion