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yesterday i was diagnosed with HPV and i was given a solution to treat this my question is how long is the outbreaks and can anyone tell me more about HPV?
thank you for your response :)
Howdy and welcome to up to two years of dealing with HPV. It won't be so bad as long as you have the understanding that it's a temporary thing and there will be almost definitely be no medical side effects.
HPV has around 100 different strains. About 40 of these they say are sexual, in that they affect the skin cells unique to the genitals. Of these, there or six to ten or so that are the most common. HPV can be split into to groups, low-risk which causes genital warts and high-risk which can sometimes lead to cervical cancer in women as well as rarely to cancer in the throat for males and females alike. That is very rare and treatable, just as is the cervical cancer. For men, there is no way to know if you have high-risk HPV as there are no symptoms in men and no test for it either. For women, they know when they have a pap test and the swab tests come back positive for abnormal cells. I believe this will also tell you if you have low-risk HPV inside there as well. For men and women, low-risk HPV can manifest as genital warts but it does not always do so and you can still pass the virus on to someone who may then have warts. I don't know how common it is to have low-risk and no warts. It seems that you generally will get warts. In those who have warts, or any HPV for that matter, the immune system begins to attack the virus and eliminate it from the body and develops anti-bodies to prevent any further infection from that particular strain. Building an immune response and clearing the virus from your system has been shown to take as little as 6-9 months or as longs as 3 years. Three years is pretty unlikely and rare, but so is 6 months. You can expect to take on average 1-1.5 years but know any time frame within this range is possible. In that time, you may experience more outbreaks of warts. After your warts are gone from this treatment currently, check yourself out really really well. Then, once a week or once every two weeks, check yourself out again. More than that is unnecessary. Keep tabs in any new growth an if you do have another outbreak, head in to your doctor for treatment. If you have gone 3 months with no more warts, you can begin to breath a lot easier, and if you go 6 months without any warts then you can consider yourself to have successfully fought off the virus. You are now no longer contagious.
Now, you may not be contagious between outbreaks either but you easily could be. Just because there are no warts doesn't mean the virus isn't in your skin and can still be transferred to any partners. For this reason, disclosure is recommended until you've gone the 3-6 months without any symptoms. If you use a condom, you won't get HPV or give it from those areas that are covered. You can still get it or give it from the skin below condom coverage however so be aware of that. ALso, foreplay can be the time of transfer instead of intercourse so be aware you aren't rubbing your stuff all over each other before using a condom. Keeping these things in mind should eliminate the risk of infection to another to near zero.
HPV has around 100 different strains. About 40 of these they say are sexual, in that they affect the skin cells unique to the genitals. Of these, there or six to ten or so that are the most common. HPV can be split into to groups, low-risk which causes genital warts and high-risk which can sometimes lead to cervical cancer in women as well as rarely to cancer in the throat for males and females alike. That is very rare and treatable, just as is the cervical cancer. For men, there is no way to know if you have high-risk HPV as there are no symptoms in men and no test for it either. For women, they know when they have a pap test and the swab tests come back positive for abnormal cells. I believe this will also tell you if you have low-risk HPV inside there as well. For men and women, low-risk HPV can manifest as genital warts but it does not always do so and you can still pass the virus on to someone who may then have warts. I don't know how common it is to have low-risk and no warts. It seems that you generally will get warts. In those who have warts, or any HPV for that matter, the immune system begins to attack the virus and eliminate it from the body and develops anti-bodies to prevent any further infection from that particular strain. Building an immune response and clearing the virus from your system has been shown to take as little as 6-9 months or as longs as 3 years. Three years is pretty unlikely and rare, but so is 6 months. You can expect to take on average 1-1.5 years but know any time frame within this range is possible. In that time, you may experience more outbreaks of warts. After your warts are gone from this treatment currently, check yourself out really really well. Then, once a week or once every two weeks, check yourself out again. More than that is unnecessary. Keep tabs in any new growth an if you do have another outbreak, head in to your doctor for treatment. If you have gone 3 months with no more warts, you can begin to breath a lot easier, and if you go 6 months without any warts then you can consider yourself to have successfully fought off the virus. You are now no longer contagious.
Now, you may not be contagious between outbreaks either but you easily could be. Just because there are no warts doesn't mean the virus isn't in your skin and can still be transferred to any partners. For this reason, disclosure is recommended until you've gone the 3-6 months without any symptoms. If you use a condom, you won't get HPV or give it from those areas that are covered. You can still get it or give it from the skin below condom coverage however so be aware of that. ALso, foreplay can be the time of transfer instead of intercourse so be aware you aren't rubbing your stuff all over each other before using a condom. Keeping these things in mind should eliminate the risk of infection to another to near zero.
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