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HPV DNA Test Result

If a person is tested for HPV DNA (both high and low risk) after the window period and doesn't engage in any kind of sex and it came back as negative. If the person continues to maintain celibacy for the rest of her life, would that person be required to go for HPV testing again?
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What is the window period you used? HPV can appear after several months. If you waited that long, no, you wouldn't be, but if you are female, you would have to get a pap smear again. You can get cervical cancer from other causes than HPV.

If you are interested in being sexually active again, you could get the HPV vaccine to help prevent the most common strains of high and low risk strains of HPV, and use condoms. Don't let a fear of HPV prevent you from being intimate.
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Thanks for taking your time to answer my question. The only exposure I had was a protected oral sex of 10-15 secs and giving unprotected oral sex for 5-10 secs in my whole life. Never had the real sex before or after due to some other irrelevant reasons. I did tested after 5-6 months post the act back in 2010. I also did oralDNA testing which came back as negative too. The whole situation sometimes becomes a nightmare for me.
Oh hon, I'm sorry you are so worried about this. The chances of you getting HPV this way, from such a brief act, are slim to none.

Given your extremely low to no risk activity, and your negative (and excessive) testing, you can put this behind you now. I wouldn't have ever recommended testing for you.

I hope you are in counseling for anxiety. Given that this happened 10 years ago, and it still becomes a nightmare for you, if you aren't, please consider it. Medically and clinically, this encounter didn't warrant any worry, much less 10 years of it.

Best of luck to you. I hope you can put this behind you now.
Yes, I am planning to go for counseling. The sad part was I was trying to refrain from it until my marriage. One last question:

1. I did HSV -1 and 2 testing right after performing this act and another testing closely 5-6 months after this exposure. Both tests came back negative for both types.

How accurate the 2nd test results would be? Should I have waited for 1 year for HSV-1 test.
Those are accurate after 4 months, and you had no risk for hsv2.

Really, your risk for anything from this was as close to zero as you can get. I don't know what you tested for, but you had no risk for HIV, any of the hepatitis viruses, mycoplasma, trich, and hsv2.

Your risk is essentially zero in all practicality for everything else. It takes time to transmit infections, and a few seconds isn't going to do it.

You can enter marriage knowing you are STD free, if marriage is still a desire for you, but please, get counseling first. You deserve to find peace. I'm not a psychiatrist or mental health professional, but you have worried about this long enough, and seem to have some deep anxiety about this.

Also, it's really helpful to us if you keep your questions to one thread, and we answer questions on a volunteer basis, on our own time. There's no reason to keep posting them again and again.

I tested for HSV-1 and 2 Igg test type specific. I heard HSV-1 can take up to 1 year to show up
No, that's not true. Both hsv1 and hsv2 antibodies will develop by 12 weeks. The tests look for those antibodies. By 5-6 months, your tests were absolutely conclusive.



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