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Does HPV ever go away or does it stay in your blood stream. Does it go away if you get a hysterectomy, and am I still at risk of getting cancer with a hysterectomy?
I agree with the other posters - your risk of cancer should be very low.
It is very possible that you needed the hysterectomy due to your fibroid tumors and it is hard to know with very little information from you how bad the dysplasia was on your cervix. But for most people HPV clears. It is not in your blood. If they have removed all the dsyplastic cells then your HPV should be gone. Your Dr.'s will want to follow you every 6-12 months for a while but your risk of cancer should be low.
I got a hysterectomy because I had lesions on my cervix from the Hpv and I had fybroid tumors that were making me heavy bleed. The reason I got the hysterectomy is because my doctor said Hpv never went away, once you got it you have it for life. I heard other women say the same thing and that it runs in the blood stream.
HPV does not stay in the bloodstream or does it ever get to the bloodstream from what im familiar with.
HPV usually travels to the basal cells in your skin, from where you form more epithelial cells. The DNA from the virus integrates itself in the DNA in your basal cells and then it starts forming abnormal skin growth which are called warts.
Cancer does not develop unless you do not take care of your precancerous lesions for 5-10 years or more. So make sure you keep up with your paps. Hysterectomy is the very very last resort thing to do. This is when you are in the stages of the actual cancer.
Have you heard of the LEEP procedure? Try looking into that. However, keep up with your gyno and make sure you go to someone who knows what they are doing and are caring. You will be fine. Most women clear the virus within 8-24 months
HPV stays in the tissue (not bloodstream) where it was first contracted (skin-to-skin).
If you got a hysterectomy and the hysterectomy took the tissue out that contained the HPV, it is gone. Not in your bloodstream.
Same thing for people who had it in their tonsil tissue and got it removed. It's gone. Until they get the next strain from the next contact.
This is as far as I know. Another person on this site (trust the top answerers, not the negative lurkers who post alarming links - there is at least one from Scandinavia who wants to turn everyone into paranoids) could offer their views - see if they agree, particularly the women.
If you got a hysterectomy and the hysterectomy took the tissue out that contained the HPV, it is gone. Not in your bloodstream.
Same thing for people who had it in their tonsil tissue and got it removed. It's gone. Until they get the next strain from the next contact.
This is as far as I know. Another person on this site (trust the top answerers, not the negative lurkers who post alarming links - there is at least one from Scandinavia who wants to turn everyone into paranoids) could offer their views - see if they agree, particularly the women.
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