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WTF?!?!?!?!?!?! FREAKIN OUT.. HPV.
OK so here goes i really need someones help with this. my son got hpv while living with his father.. It is still unclear as to how he got it and is still under investigation. He now lives with me. I had a pap smear done on july 1st and it came back abnormal. They are saying that the changes are mild and transient. WTF does that mean?? they are also saying that it was positive for hpv. I have never had an abnormal pap smear until now. and i am 13w pregnant. so someone please tell me what is going on. I am freaking out. Is it going to hurt the baby?? should i say anything to my boyfriend now or after the dr. appt?? i need some advice!!
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As someone that went through this, let me start with this, don't worry too much if you have hpv. During my first pregnancy I had an abnormal pap. They said it might be because of the pregancy but that they would have to test again later. My daughter was born perfectly healthy. After she was born, they test again. Long story short, my was the cancerous strain and I eventually had to have the leep procedure. However not all strains of hpv are cancerous. The more common strains often present as warts or your body fights it off with no symptoms. If you are that concerned, as i assume you are, discuss it more with your ob/gyn and see if he/she sees any causes for concern. Your baby should be fine though. Best of luck and I hope everything goes well for you and your family.
HPV is contactable thru toilet seats. It is the most common "STD" as many have it and will never have symptoms. Some will go away without treatment and others require treatment. There are many forms of HPV but only two categories. Cancer causing and non cancer causing. Non cancer causing HPV will present itself in the form of bumps or warts on the genitals which can be medicated or removed by freezing or laser. Cancer causing HPV has no outward appearance and must be monitored.
Three years ago I had an abnormal pap which showed 13 strains of cancer causing HPV. I was monitored for a whole year with a pap every 3 months. No changes so I have been able to go back to a yearly pap smear. Who can say where it came from or how long one has had it.
They say like 1 in 3 people have HPV and it is probably the least harmful std you could have unless its the cancer causing one. Your doctor will probably monitor you and baby a little closer but baby should be just fine.
CDC specifically states that you cannot get HPV thru toilet seats so i'd continue investigating where your son contracted it from but hopefully it is not the cancer causing type i've known a few women that have made it thru a full term pregnancy and had a healthy baby so its totall possible, just keep up on your health care, best of luck to you and baby!
Hmm maybe they've update their info since I had it cuz my doctor told me it can be.
Yep I just looked at the website and pulled my diagnosis sheet from the gynecologist (I'm probably the only freak who keeps a copy of their medical records at home.) and the website says not transmissible thru toilet seats or kissing and my diagnosis sheet says it can be contracted through toilet seats. Like I said this was three years ago.
Its crazy how medical info can change in such a short amount of time, almost frightening really...i remember when I was young my mom told me you could catch a lot of different things from toilet seats, I was soo scared of public bathroom for the longest time! lol.
Right I randomly go thru my medical records because I'll hear something that conflicts with what I have there so I'll look. I keep them(not ER just GYN) cuz of the fact that I had the Mirena and was allergic to latex and Mirena had a latex component at the time and it pretty much destroyed my uterus. So I needed proof that I told them I was allergic to latex. Which I KNOW I did but my file there was a lot of pages "unreadable." -.- ever since I'm a record junkie!
With my doctors office they have website where you send e mails and view appointments and test results and such.... this what the e mail read: it was positive for presence of high risk HPV DNA typing. This means that there are some atypical cells seen on your pap smear. These changes are likely only mild and transient. The result is NOT an indication of cervical cancer. However , given the abnormal results, we recommend a colposcopy....
I am not stopping the investigation on my son because just as a mommies intuition i know there is more to the story then what is being told.
Should i tell my boyfriend now or wait until i see the doctor, i mean could they just be wrong or something. I dont want to freak him out ya know?
I am not stopping the investigation on my son because just as a mommies intuition i know there is more to the story then what is being told.
Should i tell my boyfriend now or wait until i see the doctor, i mean could they just be wrong or something. I dont want to freak him out ya know?
I'd just say my pap came abnormal so they want to see me again to take a sample of the cervical tissue. Which is what a colposcopy is :)
Thanks, im going to just wait to tell him when i know more about it so when he freaks out i can atleast be prepared with more information. and thanks for the help!!!
I found out with my second I had it and my daughter was just fine and now I'm pregnant again.
How do people get HPV?
HPV is passed on through genital contact, most often during vaginal and anal sex. HPV may also be passed on during oral sex and genital-to-genital contact. HPV can be passed on between straight and same-sex partners—even when the infected person has no signs or symptoms.Most infected persons do not realize they are infected, or that they are passing HPV on to a sex partner. A person can still have HPV, even if years have passed since he or she has had sexual contact with an infected person. It is also possible to get more than one type of HPV.In rare circumstances, a pregnant woman with genital HPV can pass the HPV on to her baby during delivery
HPV is passed on through genital contact, most often during vaginal and anal sex. HPV may also be passed on during oral sex and genital-to-genital contact. HPV can be passed on between straight and same-sex partners—even when the infected person has no signs or symptoms.Most infected persons do not realize they are infected, or that they are passing HPV on to a sex partner. A person can still have HPV, even if years have passed since he or she has had sexual contact with an infected person. It is also possible to get more than one type of HPV.In rare circumstances, a pregnant woman with genital HPV can pass the HPV on to her baby during delivery
Is hpv really transmittable thru toilet seats?? the pamplets i read all say its sexually transmitted?? i just got my last papsmear last month and tested postive for hpv and ive only been with fiance and he got tested and nothing came back my doctor pretty much called me a liar and told me i had to have slept with someone between 2-5 weeks b4 it showed up.. i made a post on hear earlier to see if anyone knew what else could have caused this virus, but my doctor said it wont hurt the baby but you can go to a womans clinic to get futher testing
No the CDC website says no. It's so crazy I was saying cuz all the info I have from 3 yrs ago says its NOT only sexually transmitted but hey, gotta keep up with the times!
i have no clue whats going on 2 doctors i talked to told me i needed a c-section because of this and my main doctor says no.. and they all contridict each other when it comes to how i could have got it
I had hpv when I was 13. Never touched a boy in my life at that age. Don't know how I got it but I had my cervix frozen and its completly gone I'm 24 now and haven't had a abnormal pap since.
Men cannot be tested for it. I've looked on several sites, especially when I first had it. They only way to know a man has it, is if there are symptoms present. In other words, actual warts. They may have updated it since I last looked but pretty sure they still cant test men for it. That's why they reccomend both genders get the vaccine now.
Update. Just checked CDC about testing for HPV in men.
According to the CDC website:
"Currently, there is no HPV test recommended for men. The only approved HPV tests on the market are for screening women for cervical cancer. They are not useful for screening for HPV-related cancers or genital warts in men.
There is no test for men to check one’s overall “HPV status.” But HPV usually goes away on its own, without causing health problems. So an HPV infection that is found today will most likely not be there a year or two from now."
According to the CDC website:
"Currently, there is no HPV test recommended for men. The only approved HPV tests on the market are for screening women for cervical cancer. They are not useful for screening for HPV-related cancers or genital warts in men.
There is no test for men to check one’s overall “HPV status.” But HPV usually goes away on its own, without causing health problems. So an HPV infection that is found today will most likely not be there a year or two from now."
A male can only be diagnosed with the HPV virus if he is exhibiting some physical symptoms such as lesions or warts in his genital areas. Hence why we wondering if the wee boy had any of these as this would be the only way that he could be diagnosed with the HPV virus.
Could he have something called water warts? This is sometimes confused with hpv warts.
One lady looked at the kidshealth website and it said that children can get a form of hpv thru cuts or under their nails under moist conditions or something. Makes sense too. Or that it wasn't caught at the last pap and was actually passed to bubs thru child birth? Just other scenarios
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