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Warts From Hpv Posted: 09-16-07 14:44pm


About three months ago, I was diagnosised with HPV. I didn't have any genital warts but found some on the back of my legs in the knee area. Went in for a second pap smear and biopsy as the first had shown the high risk types for HPV. I showed my new GYN the warts on my legs. There were quite a few and some just under the skin you could feel. Then, about two weeks ago, I looked at my legs and they were gone. Totally gone. My doctor told me that I am healthy and strong and that perhaps my body has overcome this. I asked him if I still have HPV and he said yes. I will need to take a pap smear every six months to insure that everything is alright. Can warts just spontaniously disappear like that? Thanks

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Posted: 09-16-07 15:01pm


Yes, I think they can. Outbreaks come and go when you have HPV. Some women never get an outbreak, some get them repeatedly for the rest of their lives.

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Posted: 09-16-07 18:41pm


yes. that is why they are kinda a pain. You always have the virus, some women never break out. others do. Or if your partner has breakouts and you have intercourse you to can become infected and never have an outbreak, or have one. Thats why its so hard to treat because it can come and go. Just do what your doctor said and get regular exams and know your partners history as well..

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Warts From Hpv Posted: 09-16-07 21:39pm


They say you should be wiser when you get older, but the sad truth with people like me who have been in a long term marriage and not been out there sexually, you are just plain stupid and dumb. It never even occurred to me to think of sexual protection. Now. that is dumb. Now, obviously, this is something I will have to live with for the rest of my life. I just trusted this guy. Young, sweet, clean and it seemed to me he would never have anything like HPV to pass along to me. But, he did. And, he still denies he has anything. At least we have parted as friends. Thanks for your help. Roberta777

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Posted: 09-17-07 08:33am


yeah i know what you mean. I got married a year ago and my partner had an outbreak and had no idea he even had it. The doctor said it could even be passed through warts on your hands, and than touching yourself down there. so i dunno which way he actually got it. Bad news yeah i have to live with this for the rest of my life and so does he, but the good news is it does come and go and once you know how to treat it and deal with it you can deal with it ya know. am sorry about your situation. Your definitly not alone though. good luck

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Re: Warts From Hpv
Posted: 09-17-07 12:42pm

Roberta777 wrote:

They say you should be wiser when you get older, but the sad truth with people like me who have been in a long term marriage and not been out there sexually, you are just plain stupid and dumb. It never even occurred to me to think of sexual protection. Now. that is dumb.

Now, obviously, this is something I will have to live with for the rest of my life. I just trusted this guy. Young, sweet, clean and it seemed to me he would never have anything like HPV to pass along to me. But, he did. And, he still denies he has anything.

At least we have parted as friends.

Thanks for your help.

Roberta777 Confused

Not to defend this guy too much, but maybe he didn't know. It's not like guys go in for annual exams.... there are a lot of things that don't show up as well on guys.

Of course, for all we know he was covered in warts in his past and just wanted to get some booty.

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Re: Warts From Hpv
Posted: 09-17-07 13:06pm

Roberta777 wrote:

He wouldn't even know he had it, unless he had warts.

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Posted: 09-17-07 13:16pm


Also it is not always the guys who passes it to someone else. The female could have it and pass it to a clean man, therefore affecting him. Also Roberta like I have told you before, you very well could have had this with your previous husband and you didn't even know it. It can stay dormant for many years and suddenly have an outbreak. Like someone else said, just do what your doctor says and follow his treatment plan.

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Posted: 09-17-07 13:17pm

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Also it is not always the guys who passes it to someone else. The female could have it and pass it to a clean man, therefore affecting him.

Also Roberta like I have told you before, you very well could have had this with your previous husband and you didn't even know it. It can stay dormant for many years and suddenly have an outbreak.

Like someone else said, just do what your doctor says and follow his treatment plan.

This is true. It can remain dormant in your body for years and years.

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Posted: 09-17-07 15:05pm

Roberta777 wrote:

you can have something without even knowing it.. or who it came from.
you can catch herpes with using protection.. we're born with the virus it just doesnt show up for some people..
so really.. you never know where the hpv came from

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Warts From Hpv Posted: 09-17-07 21:15pm


Thanks to all of you for your responses. In good faith, I asked this man, unfortunately the next day after we had been intimate, how many partners he had. He said nobody since his wife. Liar, liar, pants on fire. I told him if he slept with a lot of partners that would really put me at risk as everybody he slept with, I would now be sleeping with them and everybody they had ever been with sexually. I asked my original doctor when she thought I got this thing and she said about two months before I came down with it. I know I got a really severe vaginal infection. Itching, pain, redness, hot urination and even some blood. When I asked my BF about it, he calmly said, you have a yeast infection. My wife has them all the time. Go to the pharmacy and get Monistant and it will go away. Also, when I was so upset getting a disease from him, he also, calmly said, I don't have any warts. I think this young man is pretty savvy on sexual topics. And, he had just returned from a holiday in Mexico at Cabo San Lucas with his single buddies. Came home and was with me and I got this thing. I can appreciate the opinions of all of you who say I could have had this all along. But, as my husband was a diabetic and we didn't have sex for probably 10 years and I had a clean slate when I had a pap smear five years ago, I find that to be probably pretty unlikely. When I have tried to talk to my former BF, he claims he had all the tests when he came back from Mexico because his doctor thought he had STD's and it all came back negative. He said he didn't have HPV. I told him, there is no test for men for HPV. He fails to realize that because he never used protection with me (with his other girl friend he did because she must have known him better than I did), that by having sexual relations with me he now puts not only me, himself and his young pregnant wife at risk. The other woman is a lot smarter than me.

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Re: Warts From Hpv Posted: 09-17-07 21:18pm


no offence.. but why would you sleep with someone whos married anyways?

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Re: Warts From Hpv
Posted: 09-17-07 22:30pm

prfctbyntre wrote:

no offence.. but why would you sleep with someone whos married anyways?

i was going to ask the same..a married man with a pregnant wife?..

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Posted: 09-17-07 22:58pm


Roberta sorry to hear you got the hpv but you will be fine. Just make sure you don't miss any gyn visits because now those are important for the remaining of your life. Beware if the doctor says to you that you have a high risk hpv strain, ask him again if it is one of the high risk strains because those tend to be a real problem, if they did a biopsy of your cervix means they did found lessions and you know the problem with the high risk strains is that they are hard to get rid off. They are going to be constantly trying to attack your cervix and you know it is no cure. All you can do is stay healthy, low stress life (stress weakens the inmune system) and take a folic acid supplements. Will be good that you read as much as you can about the virus. there is two types of hpv.......the warts (visible) and the cervical type (catched with pap smears) The warts are easy to control and they are not going to give you cancer. The cervical type is nice as you don't see it but this is the one that puts you at risk of cervical cancer. A low risk strain means they are less likely to cause pre-cancerous lessions. A high risk strains means it has high potential to cause pre-cancerous lessions. Okay so if you have lessions they will have to take them out as they are pre-cancerous. They will do with leeps, freezing, cone biopsies and so on. And you will continue on observation. Typically one of the procedures gets rid of the problem once for all but if it's a high risk strain they are likely to come back and you get lessions again and same process goes on. The more procedures you have then the more the cervix will weaken. If you are done with children then you definetly have nothing to worry about, only if you wanted to have children then you can see where the danger is.. hope this helps. Feel free to ask. I have researched on the virus because I have it, though i have a weak strain that seems to be gone for good.

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Warts From Hpv Posted: 09-17-07 23:34pm


I agree that being with someone who is already taken, spoken for, married is wrong. I kept saying that for over three months. All I can say is this is a marriage going down the tubes. Even with a baby coming, they are breaking up. Just too young and immature to realize they are good for each other. Only time will tell and if they can grow up to know they are trully meant for each other. I pray for them every single day. And, honestly, I can see some maturity and hope in Lee for the future. That is a blessing for all of us. Roberta

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Posted: 09-18-07 07:00am

Roberta777 wrote:

I agree that being with someone who is already taken, spoken for, married is wrong. I kept saying that for over three months. All I can say is this is a marriage going down the tubes.

Even with a baby coming, they are breaking up. Just too young and immature to realize they are good for each other. Only time will tell and if they can grow up to know they are trully meant for each other. I pray for them every single day. And, honestly, I can see some maturity and hope in Lee for the future. That is a blessing for all of us.

Roberta

how old is this guy roberta?

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Warts From Hpv Posted: 09-18-07 17:37pm


To Nightangel, My pathology report stated that I had high risk types of HPV which included the high risk panel containing 13 HPV types: 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 51, 58, 59 and 68. I know when they did that biopsy it was like someone had cut a piece out of my body. The doctor was nice and kept saying there was no way it wasn't going to really hurt. And, it did. Almost came off that table.0 Thank you for explaining to me how this can affect you. I have been so grateful for eHealth forum as in the beginning I didn't have the slightest idea what HPV was. When my doctor called to tell me the results, a flag went up when she said high risk types of HPV which can cause cervical cancer. That scared me as our family has a high risk factor for cancer. She said 16 is a dangerous one but they would monitor me every six months. There was another website where it actually showed lesions on the cervix. Almost makes you think of Leprosy. Must somehow be a related virus causing that terrible disease. Thanks for your help Nightangel. Roberta

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Posted: 09-18-07 17:56pm

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To Nightangel,

My pathology report stated that I had high risk types of HPV which included the high risk panel containing 13 HPV types: 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 51, 58, 59 and 68.

I know when they did that biopsy it was like someone had cut a piece out of my body. The doctor was nice and kept saying there was no way it wasn't going to really hurt. And, it did. Almost came off that table.0

Thank you for explaining to me how this can affect you. I have been so grateful for eHealth forum as in the beginning I didn't have the slightest idea what HPV was.

When my doctor called to tell me the results, a flag went up when she said high risk types of HPV which can cause cervical cancer. That scared me as our family has a high risk factor for cancer.

She said 16 is a dangerous one but they would monitor me every six months.

There was another website where it actually showed lesions on the cervix.

Almost makes you think of Leprosy. Must somehow be a related virus causing that terrible disease.

Thanks for your help Nightangel.

Roberta

Cervical cancer is not hereditary. It is, as you now know, caused by HPV. But, good news! That is why women have pap smears and why pap smears were invented. Smile

Cervical cancer is also the most easily treated cancer there is. If it ever progresses to that, which it doesn't generally - especially not with regular pap smears checking your cervix for microscopic cell changes.

I do agree, the biospy is painful.