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All low risk hpv strains cause warts?

All low risk hpv strains cause warts?

Hey everyone,
Does anyone know if ALL strains of low risk HPV can cause genital warts, or are there some strains of low risk that can and others that can't?

Let me preface this with one strange "coincidence(?)". The only times I've ever received abnormal hpv positive paps have been when I've had yeast infections (which ive been prone to since before ever engaging in sexual activity). Not self diagnosed yeast infections, but rather exams that start with "oh you have a yeast infection". The result is a hpv positive pap. When I have gone and not had yeast infections is when I've gotten normal pals (may have had one normal pap while having been diagnosed w a mild yeast infection at the time of exam).

I got my first abnormal pap a few years ago with "low grade" HPV. Got a colposcopy and no biopsy was needed. Next abnormal pap (they have never been consistently abnormal) showed low grade but even less risk.  The next (and last) time I received abnormal, i was told it was even lower risk than the previous. No colposcopies have resulted in needing a biopsy (she just looks w the colposcope).. Knock on wood.  When I go to the gyno, she doesn't seem to particularly check me for warts, though she knows my history. I am completely shaven so it's not that she would need to be looking for anything.  I'm prone to skin tags and general bumps around my body as I have freckled fair skin (not that of a red head). Also get razor burn and tend to cut myself when shaven.  I haven't ever had any clusters of anything. Just little tiny (maybe 1 millimeter) "things" or tiny skin tags that I get anywhere on my body and have told aren't warts or anything. Genitally, I get them here and there and always have since I began shaving (before ever becoming sexually active). Some will have a hair follicle in them. None ever grow or spread.  I never thought anything of them, especially since I've had some when getting gyno exams. I just decided to suddenly become a hypochondriac, it seems, though nothing has changed.

I'll be sure to ask my gynecologist to check out certain areas at my next appointment, but I don't feel the need to rush, since as mentioned, the same things are there that were there last time (again, they don't go away, nor do they increase in size or cluster up/spread).

Basically just wondering if all low risk strands cause warts, and your opinion on whether or not you think the doctor would say "hey that's a wart" during an exam or just wouldn't even acknowledge it even if it were one.

Sorry for the rambles and repetition. Lack of sleep in combination w writing on my phone is making this difficult.  
Thanks guys and girls!
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