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just happened and scared! :(
Hi! A few days ago I slept with a woman who then told me 10 years ago she was treated for genital warts. She said they were burned or frozen off or something of that nature. The type of sex we engaged in was let's say....every kind? Hmm we are both gay women and had oral sex and used toys and hands for penetration on each other. I used the same toy in myself that she had used in her. So now I am freaked out, I have never had an STD in fact was just tested last month for a variety of them. What should I do now? Is there an incubation period? She told me that she has not had another recurrence since that happened to her 10 years ago.
Honestly don't worry about it.. if you do end up getting it (small chance) you will find out on your pap tests. If it doesn't show up on your paps, then there is nothing serious because the virus isn't active so it doesn't matter. My gyno explained HPV to be more of an nuisance then something to worry about.
I'm not exactly sure how this info would modify my response. I don't know anything about lupus. If her immune system is "overactive" then I guess it would back me up even more. Her system would have ultra attacked the virus. Regardless, that fact that she's gone so so long without a recurrence of the symptoms tells me that you have nothing to worry about. You can choose to waste precious time and brain power on this or forget about it and be cool and enjoy life. That's my advice.
oh maybe i should have mentioned this....she has lupus. She always says that "her immune system is overactive" so im not really sure if this would make a difference of how "active" the virus may or may not still be in her system. I feel really ignorant to the entire thing:) thank you for your response!
You have virtually nothing to worry about. I would say that you have absolutely zero to worry about but the minute I say that something will happen. Once someone is infected with HPV, their body fights it off in less than two years. Given that this was ten years ago, there is nothing to fear from her old infection. It's way old news.
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