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Has my new partner given me HPV
I am in a new relationship for 6 months. I have just been diagnosed with HPV. Previous to this I have not had a sexual relationship for 2 years. Has my new partner passed this on to me
I guess also would be the question of how many sexual relationships has your current partner had and do his ex partners have a history of high risk or warts? But then a lot of people are carriers and don’t know they have hpv as there’s no test for guys and the only way they know they have hpv is with warts show up. I’m terrified I’m going to get warts from the rape- no way to know unless they show up- it sucks. My doc said high risk causes warts and lesions also- :/ :( but nothing I can do unless visible symtpoms show up. I have ithcing etc that doctors cant explain.
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I was in s relationship for 16 years prior to this. I have had regular screenings but only now in UK have they started to test for HPV prior to testing for abnormal cells so I don’t know how long the hpv has been present. Guess I’ll never know. Going to put it to the back of my mind I think and hope it goes away. Sorry for your situation
Ohk ! So I guess if you didn’t get a hpv test in your other relationship it’s hard to pin point. They only just started testing for hpv in Pap smears in aus last year also. Hopefully they will know more and be able to treat it better in the future.
It sounds like they found a strain of the high-risk HPV virus? If so, you could very well have had it from the previous relationship or even before perhaps. You're right in not worrying about, too much, though. It's so common and rarely leads to any health threats mainly because of the screenings that catch anything long before anything of concern occurs. Also, most high-risk infections don't lead to cervical cancer, and if they do, it takes years and years for that to happen. If your new relationship did indeed give it to you, he was just behaving as a normal, sexually active adult would (sometimes not using protection) so it's nothing to hold against that person personally. For better or for worse, HPV is a fact of life for the majority of sexually active people (especially today with the easy ways to hook up!). Def put it in the back of your mind and most likely it'll resolve all on it's own. Cheers!
Just to clarify. If HPV has been dormant for a big number of years would it be activated by having sex with someone who also had the virus or could it be made active another way.
No, the virus isn't activated simply by having sex as far as I know. However, since there are many different strains of HPV and because it isn't incredibly well studied, perhaps somewhere, somehow, it's happened to someone. Also, I'm just a regular guy who has HPV and has studied up on it so I must confess that I wouldn't really know something that obscure. My guess, though, is no. If the virus has been dormant a number of years, it can come back again but the prevalence of that is something I don't know. I do know that incredible stress, immune system taxing treatments such as cancer treatments, ect, and pregnancy can all cause a recurrence. This is assuming that there is no way that you weren't exposed to a new strain of the virus.
Hi, is it high risk or hpv warts you’ve been diagnosed with? I’ve been with my partner for about six years now, but five years ago I had an abnormal Pap which finally cleared last year. Then I was raped last year and now I’ve tested pos to high risk hpv strain. Obvs there’s no way to tell where or whom- but even my doctor said he thinks it’s from the rape and a new strain as I had cleared the other. But then some would say that it could have been dormant and from one of the first people you slept with. I did have unprotected sex with two bf’s like over seven years ago and I honestly don’t think it’s from them but I would feel better if I think it’s feom one of them or my current bf lol. I have severe anxiety and ptsd from last year. It also depends how many people you have slept with- if it’s warts- they can be passed even with condoms and if you have high risk hpv i suspect it’s prob from unprotected. When were your previous sexual relationships and how many? There’s no way to pin point- doctors would say there’s no way to know but in my case they think it’s most def from the rape as I was tested a few months prior and was neg at the time and my pap was clean
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