HPV still active?

[rainbowstars]

I was going out with my boyfriend for 3 years and a year and a half ago he discovered he had genital warts.
As I had not slept with anyone apart from him in 4 years I suspected it wasn't from me.
Ive done alot of research into this matter and now know that it is not possible to tell which one of us picked up the virus or when it exactly it happened as it can lay dormant in your system for years.
I went down and got an STD test done in the clinic and found out I was clear of any other infections.
After that, he cleared up and we used condoms everytime we had sex.
I have never shown any symptons of HPV.
We broke up about this time last year and I started going with another person.
We waited for a while to have sex, and about last may after our first time, he came to me and said he had discovered a very small bump and went to have it checked out and it was a wart.
I was very upset and didnt really know how to react because I knew it was probably my fault and I had passed on the virus. This completely ruined our sex life on my behalf and I broke up with him not long after.
I then started seeing my old boyfriend again and we have been havin unprotected sex on a regular basis, but since that first time he has never developed any other symptons.
I then went for my first smear test and it has shown up as normal.
I want to know if its likely im still infectious? It has been nearly a year and and half since I first think i contracted it and what my likely hood is of always passing it on to any future partners?

[alexdelong]

Once the virus has cleared it is unlikely to be transmitted.

[rainbowstars]

yes i know that hopefully we both have cleared the virus!
but what if i sleep with someone else will i still pass on the virus or will it be dormant as such?

[alexdelong]

If you had the virus, you won't get the same strain again, and he won't get it back from you.

Partners do not ping pong the infection.

See Turkee's info on clearance. If you were infected you have likley cleared the virus, or soon will.

[rainbowstars]

whenever my boyfriend first told me I went down to be tested, as there is no specific test for HPV the gyn looked at me and could see no symptons and I have never myself seen or felt anything.
I then had a smear test done which has also came back normal, hopefully indicating to me that it that i dont have a high risk type of HPV.
What scares me about it, is the fact my first boyfriend had it, then the next person I slept with developed one small wart so I cant help but think it was me who passed on the infection.
I have now been having unprotected sex with my first partner who has not came out in any warts for over a year and a half, I am wondering if we have cleared the infection because if he was prone to warts would he not have came out in them again?
It's just very frustrating to me as I am still quite young and have never myself had any problems that I know of with any STDs.
It just worries me about future partners and if by having sex with me they will break out in warts.

[turkee23]

you said you never had a outbreak...so you might not have anything.... have you ever seen any warts on your vagina or the area around it?...if you were infected (which it sounds like you were not, or you never had an outbreak) most cases will clear up within 6 months to a year of the last out break.....its kinda hard to tell with you as you never had an outbreak, so a diagnosis is hard because they wont say you have genital warts  unless they see visible warts

even if you have HPV most people clear that infection from 6 -24 months after diagnosis