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After 10 years

Hello, in college I developed a small growth at the base of my penis. It was small, smooth, and, soft. It was never itchy or sore. Needless to say I never had it checked out.

Over the years it didn't changed much, maybe a bit bigger. It has now been 15 years, I have been faithfully married for 10 years and now it has grown bigger, become rough, and other bumps have started. Needless to say I am freaking out. Looking at pictures it looks like GW. At this point I am worried my wife will think I cheated or worse yet, did she cheat? I tend to think not because I had the bump before we were together.

While I never had it checked out, I have had a doctor around my junk atleast three times. Never once did they mention the growth.... it is noticeable.

Is it possible i have had a 15 year wart? What other conditions are similar? I have a doctor appointment in a week.... but that is a long time to stress.
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I had a swab test on a wart about a year ago and it came out negative for numerous strains includng 6 and 11. Then went to a clinic and they said it was a wart due to Hpv. But IM still not sure as the company who did the test assure me of its accuracy. Confused.
To the OP i would say Ive been back to clinic with other things I've noticed and been told they are cysts,hair follicles etc. Follicles don't necessarily have to have hairs coming out i was told. So the only thing I've seen is the initial wart. No cauliflower appearance,but LOOKED like a wart. This was frozen. No reappearance. No pain,went dark and gone. Slight difference in skin colour now. Nothing since and its been almost 10 months.
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No, since you have had unsafe sex with her for those ten years, you wife has been exposed to it and has HPV too. You cannot be careful for sex that you've had with her in your past, so its silly to be careful now. Removing it via biopsy or not is a personal decision that you have to make. If you want to know what strain it is or whether it is a GW, then have it removed with some expectation of a scar where it was. Of just live with it and not have any pain or skin damage there. The other thing you can as I wrote earlier is ask your wife to be tested. If she doesn't have HPV, then its just a skin growth and not a GW. If she does have it, then that is a GW.
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I went to the doctor and he didn't clear anything up. He asked a number of questions and looked at it. He referred me to a dermo. He said it looks like a genital wart, but told me not to be concerned.  In fact, he told me to carry on as normal, including sex with my wife. I asked if is normal to last 10 years, he said.... sure. Needless to say, I am confused.... if it is GW, wouldn't a doc want me to be careful with my wife. Is it possible the doc called it a wart but doesn't consider it a STD? I can say, the one saving grace is that I have had it for this long, my wife is familiar with me and knows the growth has been there our entire relationship....
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to the guy that said warts don't stick around d that long I call bs because I had one let it go for 6 months it progressively got bigger and bigger they don't disappear on there own. I had it burnt off and within 3 months it came back I let it go for various amount of months and 2 grew in and same they got bigger and bigger. u must get it burnt off and keep going back as soon as it pops up again.
also go to the medi center and ask for wart treatment or to get one burnt off it takes minutes and doesn't hurt much. if it isn't a wart w.e it is will fall off anyway.
might want to call ahead and ask if they carry liquid nitrogen ahead of time some don't.
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Its rare for GWs to stick around that long. If your doctoris concerned, a biopsy will be performed on one or all of them. Your wife should get herself tested for HPV even if she doesn't have any visible bumps. Hopefully you are seeing a dermatologist or an urologist?
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