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am i still contagious
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University of Washington
Seattle - WA
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am i still contagious
by falen, Apr 30, 2006 12:00AM
I have had molluscum contagiosum for about six months now. It started in my pubic hair area and moved from there to my penis and my leg. Most of the bumps have healed on their own. The five that were left I treated by taking the core out with a sterilized needle. Their are scars left over from two of them. Two more just came up after a few weeks of nothing but both are high up enough on my penis that they would be covered by a condom. My family doctor told me that it was extremely contagious and that i got it from sex, but he mainly deals with sports medicine. The dermatologist on this forum told me that even though many say it is gotten sexually that it usually it is not and that it is not all that contagious and he also said that in my case that I should be fine. I have recently met someone and I do not want to infect her. So based on the information that I have given should i be ok for sexual contact, or should i just abstain. I do not want to impose this on anyone else.
Doctor's Answer
by H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D., Apr 30, 2006 12:00AM
, Apr 30, 2006 12:00AM
I'm not going to get into an online debate with other providers, especially ones on this forum. My perspective is that genital area MC in sexually active young people indeed is sexually acquired most of the time.
Infectiousness probably varies, probably based in part on the immune status of an infected person's partner. If your prospective partner had MC as a child, it is likely she is immune and you would not infect her. But most MC infections in childhood probably go undiagnosed, so she might or might not have had it; unless she has a definite history of MC in the past, which is unlikely, there simply is no way to know.
My advice is to discuss it with your new partner before you have sex with her; let her participate in a decision to have condom-protected sex; or no sex until a few weeks after your last recurrence.
HHH, MD
Infectiousness probably varies, probably based in part on the immune status of an infected person's partner. If your prospective partner had MC as a child, it is likely she is immune and you would not infect her. But most MC infections in childhood probably go undiagnosed, so she might or might not have had it; unless she has a definite history of MC in the past, which is unlikely, there simply is no way to know.
My advice is to discuss it with your new partner before you have sex with her; let her participate in a decision to have condom-protected sex; or no sex until a few weeks after your last recurrence.
HHH, MD
