HPV possibility?

[Samsonite11]

I am a virgin and had a one-time exposure to a male who has had MANY partners but swears he always uses a condom and recently got checked and was A-okay (although they don't test for HPV in males so if 80% have it and he has probably slept with all of them and their sisters, he probably has it). There were no visual marks, warts, scratches, on him but again, we know that that doesn't mean anything.

There was no penetration but definite genital rubbing, and rubbing around the vaginal opening (no protection). Anyway, that was five weeks ago. I got paranoid and started examining myself, which I don't normally do so this thing could have been there for years for all I know.

I searched all around and couldn't see anything (like five times). I looked again under the inner labia, beneath the clitoral sheath (don't know what it's called)and basically EXACTLY in the middle where the two lips meet when I pull them up and way back I could see what looked like a tiny clear blister so I freaked and thought it was herpes or molluscum so I started picking at it. I squeezed it and it bled almost immediately. I kept picking and picking (real, genius, I know). Anyway, at first it was really hard to see but then it started getting more pronounced from all the agitation, I'm sure. When I lightly ran my finger over it after the agitation it almost felt like it would catch, don't know another way to describe it. Like a sliver or something. I tried to squeeze it to no avail, just more blood. But I squeezed with two fingers and pulled up and pulled off something. It looked like a long thin sliver almost. I freaked b/c I thought of a wart root or something. The blister/bump is still there but it looks like part of it is gone on the side (a hole now). Not really a hole, hole, but you know what I mean, I think.

I went to the doc (regular fam physician and this was NOT her specialty). She said it was too small to tell but it sort of looked cauliflowerish but so does all skin things and to give it a month and come back but that it could be HPV. Nice answer...

Anyway, I'm quite nervous about it. 1) I'm wondering about the chances of even getting HPV from a one-time exposure from him. What are the stats of something like that? IF he has it, which let's assume yes, does that mean I do now because I was exposed? and 2) Does it sound like HPV? It doesn't hurt (even after all the abuse, strangely). It doesn't itch. There's only one bump. It's way up in there. Doesn't hurt when urinating. Doesn't smell weird. Nothing. Looks like a tiny blister to me, may have some white color. It's so small, it's hard to tell and hard to look for that matter. I can feel it there, especially when I pull the lips back until it's a flat surface. Then I can see it better and feel it. There's only one.

Can you advise me?

[hookah]

That is one of the more confusing sets of questions ever composed, but yes, the kind of HPV that does not cause warts, which is linked somewhat to cervical cancer, is wholly different from the strain that causes visible warts (but is not correlated with precancerous cells)

[Alan Rockoff, MD]

It does not sound like HPV.  The chances of catching HPV are hard to measure, but if there are no visible lesions it's low, and anyhow it takes months or longer for warts to incubate.  My advice is to leave yourself alone so as not to confuse the issue and see a skin doctor is a month or so for definitive diagnosis. I think you're very likely not to have a problem.

Take care.

Dr. Rockoff

[Samsonite11]

One more thing, I forgot to put in there. If one person has warts, would they spread warts or could they spread the "invisible" virus? Does that make sense?

If they have the wart virus, then they would have actually had warts and they would spread warts, right? If they have "invisible" HPV then they would spread the invisible kind right?

Just doing process of elimination, as I don't think he's ever had actual visible warts.