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HPV question
I am a 32 year old female that has HPV... I am engaged now and my partner has just found a sore on his genital area; what do we need to do? I have never had this, but have had the cancer scare over the last year. Do we need to use condoms? what if we want to get pregnant? do the warts go away after time on their own?
Please help!
Please help!
Sure, good luck! :)
Thank you so much! I have the high risk.. have had 2 colps and now waiting to see if I need the leep done. I ahve never shown signs of anything else with HPV; my fiancee does have an appt to get checked so hopefully thats not what it is.
When you say you have HPV and a cancer scare, did you have an abnormal pap showing dyplasia? What level were your cell changes? Did your doc test you for HPV and if so did they tell you if you have high risk and low risk HPV's? High risk causes cell changes and low risk causes warts. You might have had both and now your fiancee is showing warts from the low risk strain when you didn't. No everyone has symptoms and for men there are usually none with high risk strains.
If you have already been having sex without condoms then using them will not prevent the fact that both of you now share the same strain. Once you have a strain you always have it but you immune system with time will clear the symtoms. Warts are very contagious so if he does have warts you can use condoms to help prevent spreading them to you, this is what we are doing, I have warts, he doesn't but we share HPV. Condoms are not 100% effective. Yes the warts will go away, he needs to see a dermatologist to find out if in fact that is what he has first. Then discuss treatments with the doc. There are several options, I just finished acid and now will start an rx.
I would suggest you wait to get pregnant til you have both cleaned symptoms but discuss this decision with your gyn. While HPV will not effect your babies health in utero, there is a risk during birth. Babies immune systems are immature and they can get oral HPV, called RRP. I don't know a lot about this so don't let that scare you, I just wanted to let you know so you could discuss it with your doc.
If you have already been having sex without condoms then using them will not prevent the fact that both of you now share the same strain. Once you have a strain you always have it but you immune system with time will clear the symtoms. Warts are very contagious so if he does have warts you can use condoms to help prevent spreading them to you, this is what we are doing, I have warts, he doesn't but we share HPV. Condoms are not 100% effective. Yes the warts will go away, he needs to see a dermatologist to find out if in fact that is what he has first. Then discuss treatments with the doc. There are several options, I just finished acid and now will start an rx.
I would suggest you wait to get pregnant til you have both cleaned symptoms but discuss this decision with your gyn. While HPV will not effect your babies health in utero, there is a risk during birth. Babies immune systems are immature and they can get oral HPV, called RRP. I don't know a lot about this so don't let that scare you, I just wanted to let you know so you could discuss it with your doc.
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