Hi Hun,
Just wanted to say that at 22, if you've been sexually active you should have a smear test, just to eliminate any worries you might have, especially with your family history.
There could be lots of reasons why you are having pain/interval bleeding. CD being one of them. Additionally you could easily have a pelvic inflammatory infection or it could equally be nothing!
Always best to have these things checked out and put your mind at ease if nothing else.
You can pop into your local family planning clinic or GU clinic and have this done. Not very many GPs do smears nowadays.
Amethyst, sorry to contradict you, but a very close friend of mine has just had a radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer and she had NO symptoms whatsoever. She was very lucky in that she had a "borderline" smear test and her concerned consultant wanted to do a further biopsy under general anaestetic as she had a rather strange shaped cervix. Luckily (thankfully) they found the cancer hiding at a bit of her cervix they would never have gotten too with a general colposcopy. She's doing well and has recovered fantastically, well certainly physically, but is now dealing with the mental effects of only being 36 and having no children :-(
I'm sure you can understand why this is a subject I feel quite passionately about having had someone so close to me suffer from this dreadful awful disease. Now I just have to work on my sister who is 27, been sexually active for 11 years and has STILL never had a smear, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
I would urge all women to have their regular smears. Its free, doesn't hurt and could very well save your life.
C xxx