RHP

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HPV

October 12 2019

Anyone dated someone with HPV? Just found out a couple I was involved with in NSW have turned a positive result, get my results on Monday...feeling very gloomy about the possibility of never having sex again!

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  • pizzadogs

    pizzadogs

    5 years ago

    Possibly of not having sex again?. Sure it not hiv.

  • SpicyKale

    SpicyKale

    5 years ago

    I don't think they even test for it in a std screen in Australia. Warts are a strain of hpv, but I think that would be a visual check. A cervical screen with your gyno checks for the strains of hpv that cause cervical cancer. Have a google, there are many different strains of hpv. The cervical cancer ones are only a problem if you're playing without condoms, although I think you can get those in your throat. Someone with a medical background will correct me. Warts are skin to skin contact and condom use won't stop you passing them around. That touches the surface, you're only going to stress yourself taking advice from us on here, best to chat to your gp.

  • Lover_Boytoy

    Lover_Boytoy

    5 years ago

    90% of people have HPV1 and they only often cause benign warts that you can freeze off or use a cream to treat it. The concerning HPV is HPV2, that is the type that cause Cervical cancer- and is the reason for Papsmear and LLETZ procedure- with the Vaccine in recent years, hopefully it will no longer be a major concern. In terms of protection, like previously mentioned 90% of people probably already have HPV1 without knowing it. And if you really want to protect it means you are to abstain from oral sex or hand touching (Skin-skin) contact altogether (Although I have seen a couple that use gloves, hand sanitizes, and hand wipe during play).

  • ROBJEN

    ROBJEN

    5 years ago

    Go speak with your GP or better, visit a doctor at a sexual health clinic and get the correct answers. However, in my non-expert opinion I am pretty sure that they don’t test for it in routine screenings. Why? Because it is extremely common with infection rates around 80%. That is why since the vaccine became available, it is given free at school age. With such a high carrier rate, the only way to definitively vaccinate someone is to get in before they become sexually active. Similarly, they don’t test for HSV either in a routine screen because of the same reason. Both have many different strains and can be in the body for years or decades and produce no symptoms. So the reality for most people is not a case of “I’m clean” ....... it’s more a case of I have never been tested, so I don’t know. Also in both cases women are more likely to be carriers and not know by about 3:1. Again, just emphasises the importance of condoms ..... not 100% effective but better than nothing and if you want to be in this lifestyle, you can enjoy, have fun, minimise the risk but the only way to eliminate it is to bow out and become abstinent. Specifically in relation to HSV though, only a few of the strains cause problems and that ranges from genital warts to cervical cancer. Again, having the strain that causes cancer does not by any way mean you will get cancer. The virus has little effect on men, we simply become carriers and generally clear the virus within 12 months. For women, it can take a couple of years or more to clear it, while others just remain carriers and the virus causes no ill effects. Speak to your GP, ask questions and probably find out what strain it is, but please don’t go losing to much sleep over it. And never having sex again is very well an over reaction to it. The infection/carrier rate among women who were sexually active pre availability of vaccination is so common it isn’t even screened for unless you present with problems such as warts, irregular menstrual cycle or some other abnormality. Hope it helps 😊

  • ROBJEN

    ROBJEN

    5 years ago

    The HPV vaccination is only for the strains that may lead to cervical cancer, it does not cover the dozen or so other strains of the virus. If your couple fall within the under 25 year age group, they are most likely vaccinated against those.

  • SpicyKale

    SpicyKale

    5 years ago

    Robjen, the new gardasil 9 covers more of them. I was having a read the other day after a similar topic came up. I believe it covers the two strains that cause genital warts too. There's an age limit on who can get the vaccine. The age limit has moved from mid thirties up, just like the new version of the vaccine covers more. Great progress for a group of Australian researchers too!

  • ROBJEN

    ROBJEN

    5 years ago

    Spicey, I didn’t know that, even better. Australia seems to be leading the way in most viral research.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    5 years ago

    Here's a page from the Centre for Disease Control in the USA - explaining the link between HPV and Oral Cancers: https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/hpv/basic_info/hpv_oropharyngeal.htm Also a page about links between STD Risks, Types and Oral Sex: https://www.cdc.gov/std/healthcomm/stdfact-stdriskandoralsex.htm

  • curious_72

    curious_72

    5 years ago

    You can be vaccinated against it, and I only had it done last year at the age of 45 but i had to pay for it. The gardasil9 covers more than the cervical cancer strain.