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HPV Confusion, Please help
Hello Doctor,
In September of last year i was told i have high risk HPV according to my pap smear as well as chlamydia. i was treated for the chlamydia and knew when i must have been infected which was my unprotected stupidity the month before. i was also given the gardisil vaccine a couple of years ago but i guess i contracted another strain. i was a little nervous about engaging in any sexual activity until my HPV cleared but i was told to use protection. in december i got what i thought was razor bumps from shaving near by rectum. i went in for a check up that month and my GYN never suspected that they were anything else. earlier this month i started to get to know a man and i have given him oral. he also fingered me and gave me some oral for about 20 seconds because i was concered about my HPV. He wanted to have sex and tried to slip in his penis without a condom 3 times and the head of his penis touched my vagina. i gave him oral right after since i was not comfortable having sex with him. a few days later i go in for another PAP smear and my GYN notices my "razor bumps" that became dry and small and said they were genital warts. i was shocked and even got a second opinion. but they confirmed thats what they were. They prescribed Aldera for the warts and told me im highly contagious and that there was no cure for them and that even after treatment i will still be contagious and they will most likley come back. so they concluded i have multple strains of HPV. my question is based on the genital contact i had, it that enough to have givin my partner genital warts? these warts first appeared in early december and are still there but much smaller and near my rectum. are they less contagious since they are older? my pap still shows that i have the high risk HPV virus after 6 months but they said the amount is decreasing. is it safe to say once my pap is normal and the high risk HPV is gone so is the Low risk HPV that caused my genital warts?
thanks!
In September of last year i was told i have high risk HPV according to my pap smear as well as chlamydia. i was treated for the chlamydia and knew when i must have been infected which was my unprotected stupidity the month before. i was also given the gardisil vaccine a couple of years ago but i guess i contracted another strain. i was a little nervous about engaging in any sexual activity until my HPV cleared but i was told to use protection. in december i got what i thought was razor bumps from shaving near by rectum. i went in for a check up that month and my GYN never suspected that they were anything else. earlier this month i started to get to know a man and i have given him oral. he also fingered me and gave me some oral for about 20 seconds because i was concered about my HPV. He wanted to have sex and tried to slip in his penis without a condom 3 times and the head of his penis touched my vagina. i gave him oral right after since i was not comfortable having sex with him. a few days later i go in for another PAP smear and my GYN notices my "razor bumps" that became dry and small and said they were genital warts. i was shocked and even got a second opinion. but they confirmed thats what they were. They prescribed Aldera for the warts and told me im highly contagious and that there was no cure for them and that even after treatment i will still be contagious and they will most likley come back. so they concluded i have multple strains of HPV. my question is based on the genital contact i had, it that enough to have givin my partner genital warts? these warts first appeared in early december and are still there but much smaller and near my rectum. are they less contagious since they are older? my pap still shows that i have the high risk HPV virus after 6 months but they said the amount is decreasing. is it safe to say once my pap is normal and the high risk HPV is gone so is the Low risk HPV that caused my genital warts?
thanks!
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
The sorts of contact you describe are unlikely to put your partner at risk for HPV. If he were to get it and your lesions are warts, he would be more likely to have warts than asymptomatic infection as well although there is a small possiblity of asymptomatic infection.
You are correct, once your warts are cleared, if they do not recur within 3 months you can be confident thay will not and need not worry about transmitting infection to your partner.
Aldara is a highly effective therapy. EWH
You are correct, once your warts are cleared, if they do not recur within 3 months you can be confident thay will not and need not worry about transmitting infection to your partner.
Aldara is a highly effective therapy. EWH
thank you doctor. i have not told my partner, we have not had sexualy intercourse. just oral and that one incident when his genital did touch mine. i guess my question is if that is enough for transmission from my genital warts? i think i should tell him about it if it is. and if so is it positive that he will get genital warts since i had an outbreak? or is it possible that he may be insymptomatic? i dont want to have any sexual activity until the warts have cleared. is aldera affective? just so i understand corectly if i dont have a break out 3 months after my warts are cleared it means my low risk hps have have cleaned out aswell? thanks again and sorry for all the questions
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Welcome to our Forum. I'll try to help. While the time course of the events you describe is a little hard to follow, as I understand your question, you are concerned about the risk of transmitting HPV to your current partner, either through your recent activities or in the future once your current warts have resolved.
If this is indeed the question, I would urge you both not to worry, nor to let your current infection inhibit your relationship with your partner but, instead, to discuss your infections with him (my sense is that you probably already have) an then move forward. For better or worse, it sounds as though your partner has already been exposed to some degree. In addition, if your partner has had other partners, it is quite possible that your partner has already had or been expose to others with HPV as well. Finally, if your current infection is already being treated, that will tend to reduce the likelihood of transmitting infection.
Our counsel to clients about transmission of infection following resolution of HPV infection, either on their own or with therapy, is that there is no further risk of transmission if the infection has not recurred three months after resolution.
Should your partner be aware and then get infected, that simply is not all that big a deal. Please remember, over 60% of American men have HPV and yet the infection rarely causes serious problems.
I hope this is a helpful perspective. If there are other, specific questions, please let me know and I will try again. EWH
If this is indeed the question, I would urge you both not to worry, nor to let your current infection inhibit your relationship with your partner but, instead, to discuss your infections with him (my sense is that you probably already have) an then move forward. For better or worse, it sounds as though your partner has already been exposed to some degree. In addition, if your partner has had other partners, it is quite possible that your partner has already had or been expose to others with HPV as well. Finally, if your current infection is already being treated, that will tend to reduce the likelihood of transmitting infection.
Our counsel to clients about transmission of infection following resolution of HPV infection, either on their own or with therapy, is that there is no further risk of transmission if the infection has not recurred three months after resolution.
Should your partner be aware and then get infected, that simply is not all that big a deal. Please remember, over 60% of American men have HPV and yet the infection rarely causes serious problems.
I hope this is a helpful perspective. If there are other, specific questions, please let me know and I will try again. EWH
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