mouthwash after cunnilingus

i just wanted to know what affect does rinsing the mouth with water / non-alcoholic mouthwash has after performing cunnilingus on a HPV positive woman. Can this potentially prevent transmission ? At least reduce the viral load of the virus, making it easy for your immune sys to handle it ?

[soscared872]

First, I doubt if you know if the woman is HPV positive. Also I assume you are afraid of the two common strains HPV-16 and HPV-18.

My advice is focus on the future. Millions of people do oral sex every year. The percentage of people who get oral cancer is extremely low out of that bunch. I went through a period of fear. But now I look to the future. I will only do cunnilingus in a long term relationship.

Your best defense is regular dental checkups. They can find if there are any lesions to worry about. My dental hygienist has a poster about oral cancer. She looks for any sign. My own doctor says a once a year oral check is enough. Dr. Handsfield says a check every five years is enough.

[alkaloid]

anyone ? ?

[soscared872]

First, I doubt if you know if the woman is HPV positive. Also I assume you are afraid of the two common strains HPV-16 and HPV-18.

My advice is focus on the future. Millions of people do oral sex every year. The percentage of people who get oral cancer is extremely low out of that bunch. I went through a period of fear. But now I look to the future. I will only do cunnilingus in a long term relationship.

Your best defense is regular dental checkups. They can find if there are any lesions to worry about. My dental hygienist has a poster about oral cancer. She looks for any sign. My own doctor says a once a year oral check is enough. Dr. Handsfield says a check every five years is enough.

[alkaloid]

thanks for replying . . appreciate it . . .  youre right i do not know for sure if the woman was hpv+ , actually its more like 4 women in the last 3 years (some of them in their 40s  . . which i heard decreases the tx rate) but they all fall in the high risk region as they were prostitutes.

According to a study, ppl with 1-5 oral sex partners in their lifetimes
have a 100% more chance of getting oral cancer. I think in my case, since the partners were all high risk, that makes it much higher . . more like 200%  . . . i guess . . . ( i neither smoke nor drink)


I was stupid then and didnt know better  . . . and now knowing what i know . . i think im going crazy. I just turned 27 and was hoping to tell my gynic to give me Gardasil. Do you think it will help now ? ?

[soscared872]

For some reason doctors don't recommend Gardasil for people who already had several sex partners. I don't recall why.

I had more sex partners than four and I performed cunnilingus on most of them.

I never read the statistic 1 to 5. The statistic I read was 6 or more, then a 250% greater risk of oral cancer than not. But consider this. What is 250% of ten people? The answer 25. What is 250% of 3000 people? The answer is 7,500. The stats say that there are about 6,000 to 10,000 per year who die of oral cancer. It would have been about 2500 to 3500 people per year if it were not for oral sex. yet millions of people have oral sex every year. The stats you and I first read were twisted to make it look very alarming and worry ourselves to death. But in reality less than 1% of sexually active people get oral cancer. It usually happens in their 50s (you are 27) of THAT group. Furthermore, it happens if they are smokers or heavy drinkers or have HIV or have some other auto immune disease that is untreated. Even when a dentist detects the oral cancer caused by HPV, it has a high cure rate when treated.

I think you and I can relax (I'm over 50 and more cautious about diet, amount of drinking, and I take medicine for thyroid issues which is a form of an auto immune disease) but I the doctors tell me I am not at risk for oral cancer and should not worry.

[alkaloid]

i guess you are right . . . . im worrying too much . . . but ill just stop by a gyno and throw the gardasil question out there . . .see what they say