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Does the apperance of genital warts mean HPV is active again?
I was diagnosed with HPV about 1 1/2-2 years ago. I just had a pap smear sometime around May of this year and came up "clean" for abnormal HPV cells. I understand that I'm always going to have HPV but if my immune system fights it off it will lie dormant.
Now my problem is that I've had the appearance of what I very much believe are small genital warts for about a month or two now. I'm going to the doctor soon, but I just need to know that if genital warts start to appear after a clear pap a few months back if that means the dominate HPV is activated again?
Now my problem is that I've had the appearance of what I very much believe are small genital warts for about a month or two now. I'm going to the doctor soon, but I just need to know that if genital warts start to appear after a clear pap a few months back if that means the dominate HPV is activated again?
*according to labtestsonline.org:
The tests most commonly used to screen for HPV only detects those types that have a higher risk of progressing to cancer. If positive, it indicates the presence of one of these high-risk types:
HPV types 16, 18, 31, 33, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66, 68, and 73
Sometimes, molecular tests to detect and identify low-risk HPV types are ordered. If the result is positive, it indicates the presence of one of the low-risk types:
HPV types 6 and 11 that typically cause venereal warts, along with types 42, 43, and 44 have a low risk of progressing to cancer.
so apparently pap smear test only able to detect high risk HPV, i think we got the answer. The answer is no, your HPV wasnt reactivated. You have "cleared" your high risk HPV strain but NOT your low risk HPV strain one, the one that caused genital wart (could be type 6 or 11 or 42-44). HPV could lay dormant for months to years on some people, apparently that is what happening on you. (thats why you got warts a month ago instead of 1 and half year ago)
My another guess is that you had sex with someone and got infected by another HPV strain few months ago.
The tests most commonly used to screen for HPV only detects those types that have a higher risk of progressing to cancer. If positive, it indicates the presence of one of these high-risk types:
HPV types 16, 18, 31, 33, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66, 68, and 73
Sometimes, molecular tests to detect and identify low-risk HPV types are ordered. If the result is positive, it indicates the presence of one of the low-risk types:
HPV types 6 and 11 that typically cause venereal warts, along with types 42, 43, and 44 have a low risk of progressing to cancer.
so apparently pap smear test only able to detect high risk HPV, i think we got the answer. The answer is no, your HPV wasnt reactivated. You have "cleared" your high risk HPV strain but NOT your low risk HPV strain one, the one that caused genital wart (could be type 6 or 11 or 42-44). HPV could lay dormant for months to years on some people, apparently that is what happening on you. (thats why you got warts a month ago instead of 1 and half year ago)
My another guess is that you had sex with someone and got infected by another HPV strain few months ago.
sorry if i sounds confusing, but a pap smear test is able to detect low risk HPV strain or only for high risk HPV strain?
if it's only able to detect high risk HPV strain (and not the low risk ones that cause genital warts), then it's possible that you have a normal pap smear and at the same time you have genital wart. Because a wart is caused by different HPV strain.
if it's only able to detect high risk HPV strain (and not the low risk ones that cause genital warts), then it's possible that you have a normal pap smear and at the same time you have genital wart. Because a wart is caused by different HPV strain.
Hey dt,
Let us know what the doctor says, i hope you are going to a gyncologsist. Those bumps in he appearance of warts maybe something else, also if you had more partners after your clearance its possible you may have been reinfected.
Not sure exactly, but its really unlikely for abnormal cells to come back after they have been cleared. The virus can be fought off by our immune system like nay other virus such as chicken pox or the common cold but they also stay in our bodies afterwards.
Stay healthy, take vitamins dont smoke or drink. Let us know what the doctor says. Good luck
Sorry small typo at the end, should be, "...means the dormant HPV is activated again?"
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