Genital Warts & Faithfully Married a LONG time

[worriedinNC624]

Ok, my wife and I have been married 14 years and were together for several years before that.  I had several sex partners before I met her, but since we've been together, I have never had sex (oral or otherwise) with another person.  I am 99% certain that she has not been with anyone during that time either.  Recently, I discovered 2 small bumps on my penis that turned out to be genital warts.  My question is this...how might I have contracted the virus?  Is it possible to get it from a way other than through sexual contact?  I have done extensive searches online and it appears that "regular" warts (i.e. those that appear on the hands, face, etc.) can be passed via towels or a handshake or some other kind of contact like that.  I also understand that HPV generally needs an "opening" through which to enter the body - a cut, for instance.  Isn't it possible that I was exposed to the strain of HPV that caused my genital warts in a way other than sexual contact?

After 14 years of marriage, our sex life is not the greatest.  I have never been unfaithful, but really don't know how she will react to the news that I have genital warts.  Any advice is much appreciated.

[smallbutnice]

i have just come into contact with it . But also other things going on at the same time with my husband ie woman saying to me he is cheating . letters of woman and messages on facebook sent from him to them he has also been known for cheating as he is a lorry driver ..l im extremley worried .

[mosss]

i m 26,un married and having darts,i m confused about my marriage what wd happen? can i produce baby safely or not? the whole life my wife would be in risk of getting that disease while staying with me?

[yuunnn146]

hi, I unlike many of these people am like you. I have genital warts or they appear to be so. I think what your really looking for is an escape goat for the doubts that you are having about your marriage and your wife because you don't want to be believe even the possibility of the worst, and you are thinking to yourself  you know your body pretty damn well and this has never happened before. How did this happen to me? Could she do that? What do I do now? I thought we were in love? But the scientific data says i could have had this from before, but I don't believe that dormant crap. I am lost to and I wanted to know is there in other possibility in gods green earth that this has an alternate method of contact before I set the ship of sail and the earth off it's access. Listen, no one can tell you what to say or do read the info they are telling you they dont know how it happens they dont even have a test for it. So ask your wife if she cheated tell her you have warts and judge from your mind and gut and analyze everything because if you are wrong the next time it could be HIV.

[isitoveryet79]

My Dr. old me, that there is now way to say for sure that you cant catch it from other sources BECAUSE it is a virus.  You can touch your self and pass it to other parts of your body, how hard to imagine is it . You meet someone new, you shake their hand. Guess what 2 minutes earlier he was in the bathroom shaking his thing and didnt wash his hands.      Now its on your hands, you touch your face, you adjust yourself....anything is possible. Would it be the most common maybe not , but then again who is to say people say "they test" well guess what if it can lay dorment for 10 years how you gonna test that???   Well we did a study with 100 people for a year...well not everybody would show signs in a year and since they dont have blood test how would you know who has it.   Seems to me it would be a very hard thing to track . I have been with my husband for since high school 17 years, we split a few times and had other partners . But for the past 14 years we also have been faithful.   We have no reason to lie to each other, I have known this man over half my life... I can trust him ,he would tell me cause he knows we would work through it.        So  I guess 6 months now I have had gw , just out of the blue.   I was very ,very,very ill in 2007 I thought I was gonna die. It would seem to me if it was gonna surface it would have happened then.  My body was beat and battered and falling apart ...  not now when there has been nothing wrong.    So yes I think you can pass it other ways, soap,towel,toilet seat, shake hands, drink after. But that is just what I think .    SO nobody needs to come screaming show me proof, or you know for a fact it cant . There is no way it could be proven either way , until they find better testing methods.

[metropolis]

I'm not a doctor but I do know that HPV is extremely contagious. Millions of people are infected around the world. So yes, I believe that warts may be transmitted by other means than sex.

Here's something you won't find on the medical websites you mentioned: in my case, a herpes cream called ZOVIRAX was very effective. My warts were permanently removed in a couple of days and no surgery was needed. I don't know if this works for everyone but it worked for me.

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IS that cream over the counter

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IS that cream over the counter

[p489]

HPV can be passed by other means than sex.  Its most likely caused by skin to skin genital contact but anyone who says that it is not possible to be contracted by other means is lying.  Wart viruses are very resilient and can be transmitted by urine to urine contact from public toilets.  Has pee ever bounced on to you from a toilet?  Imagine that someone else with HPV peed 30 seconds before you.