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Men diagnosed with LSIL and High Risk HPV?

Hey everyone.

I am hoping Dr. HHH or Dr. Hook see this as I am pretty sure they're the only people out there qualified to answer this.
My Story;
I recently went to my GP to have a bump at the base of my penis looked at as it had been unchanged for approximately 1 year. This is my best guess it wasn't something I paid attention to but could remember ripping it off about a year ago when I thought it was an ingrown hair. This bump was approximately 3/32" x 3/32" for reference.
When my GP first saw this bump he thought it was unussual and said it could be a wart caused by HPV, but at the same time did look different than most he had seen previously. That being said he felt the best option was to perform a biopsy and send it in for lab testing. He sent me home and told me not to worry in the mean time.
Two weeks later he had left me a brief voicemail stating that he had received the test results and they where positive for HPV, he said I should watch for other warts/lesions to form and inform all current & future sexual partners. That was about it.
I immediately went into a conniption fit of web searches and self hatred. I learned everything I could about genital warts and HPV,  in a matter of days I had been to the local STD clinics and recieved my first round of Gardasil 9. At the STI Clinic they were confused about my GP's decision to biopsy the wart(at this point I was assuming I had warts, research lead me to belief that the only testing for men was a visual inspection),  and had placed a call in for further explanation, after blasting my Johnson with a fire extinguisher I might add. The nurse thought what I had thought was irritaded skin from my previous waxing session, were newly forming warts. (Yes men wax too, I don't want whiskers down there). After that experience I booked a follow up with my GP to clear up the confusion from the STI Clinic. At the follow up he let me know I did not have Low Risk HPV, the test came back positive for High Risk HPV and was likely HPV 16 or 18 not the HPV 6 - 11 I had been reading about. He said this wasn't really bad for me but is very harmful for women. I asked what I should research to now inform my self of this development, he gave me a paper that read Low Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion (LSIL).
Which when looked up online seems to come up synonymous with irregular Pap tests. My research and past conversations has lead me to believe I should be looking up (PIN) Penile Intraepithelial neoplasia, though that is complete conjecture on my part.
1) Is this assumption correct from the above story?
2)If there is no approved HPV test for men how was this Doctor able to diagnose me with High Risk HPV?
3)If I continue to have lesions appear especially after 2 years is this a sure sign of cancer?
4)Would waxing the infected area cause lesions to grow or influence the infection in any way now or once cleared for 6months too 2 years.
5)Are future partners at greater risk of catching this particular strain from me once the lesions have been cleared for 2 year? Or is this simular to Low Risk HPV/warts?
6)Is Gardasil thought to help your body clear (stop the virus from replicating) and therefor decrease the likelihood of future transference.
7)Are lesions the same as warts in that they're transferred from one part of the anogenital region to the other by skin to skin contact ie: masterbation, inappropriate scratching?
8) is there anything else Men with a High Risk HPV diagnosis should know? For myself or future relationships.

Sorry for the extremely long post, but I am super confused and Doctors in Canada don't seem to be able or are not willing to take the time to fully explain this issues to me.

Thanks for reading,

              1ConfusedCanadian
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