I just need some reassurance that I didn't get my HPV vaccinations too late...
I grew up homeschooled with super religious parents. (If you don't know the type, count your blessings and consider yourself very lucky.) My parents threw raging fits when my pediatrician suggested I get the HPV vaccines when I was 10 (approximately.) I'm now 28 and received my third and final HPV dose today. I thought I'd have to restart the whole cycle since I missed the third dose years ago, but my pharmacist reassured me that I don't need to and I'm now fully vaccinated. I don't want to post my exact sexual history on the public internet, but I've had very few sexual partners, and I'm going on my eighth year without sex (lol.)
My pap smears have all come back clean, and even though I haven't been sexually active in a long time, I don't think it's realistic to think I'm never going to have sex again. Therefore, I feel like the vaccines are still a smart choice for me to have made, and that on a rational level, it's not too late. However, I have been diagnosed with OCD several times and sometimes it manifests as health anxiety. I'm worried I have a high-risk strain that's lying dormant and will later come back, and that I should've gotten vaccinated before I ever had sex and that since I didn't I'm at high risk.