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Ishtarr -> RE: bareback dogging (10/23/2011 1:59:53 PM)
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ORIGINAL: EmeraldsPheonix
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ORIGINAL: CynthiaWVirginia
Years ago I was a dumb ass and had unprotected sex, thank God I was lucky and didn't catch some of the things my friends caught. Unless you want the doctor to be burning or freezing genital warts off your penis (maybe you are a masochist)...
Condoms do not offer protection against HPV (genital wart) because very often, the warts are in a location that isn't covered by a condom.
HPV can even be contagious without clearly visible warts showing, so even if you visually inspect the area, and use a condom, you can still get affected with the virus.
HPV can be transmitted through any form of contact, including blow jobs, hand jobs, oral, mastrubation, or touching of any kind without a virus barrier.
Most people infected with HPV never show symptoms (warts) and wouldn't even ever know they have the virus without an STD test alerting them to it.
50% of the population has, at one time or another, been contaminated with HPV. Most of them clear the virus without even knowing they had it to begin with. In some cases, HPV can cause cervical or other cancers, some of them more life threatening than others.
In some cases, it may take decades -or never- before a person clears the virus, though most people clear it within 2 years from contamination.
ok Ishtarr i do have to say that this is new info to me and I HAVE HPV. i never knew it was from warts and have never really had wart outbreaks that i know of. I get tested yearly for all STD/STI's and have came back clean. the only way i knew i had HPV was because i had a pap come back positive and then got it tested further and found out that i had mild displatia (spelling may be wrong). the thing that is catching me off guard is that you said some people clear it after 2 years. i find this kinda as a relief to me because other than about a year ago when i came back positive again though it wasnt tested to see if i was still at mild displatia or not all other paps and STD/STI screenings that i have had came back negative.
Is this a good thing?
i know me "airing" my personal business isnt the best since me and my husband are looking around for a possible 3rd to add to our household but now i am interested in this. and actually im going to copy this post and start a thread of its own for discussion about HPV because its one of the i guess lesser known about.
As a standard disclaimer: I'm not a medical expert, ask you doctor, blah blah.
I have HPV, I found out because I was diagnosed with early stage 1 cervical cancer.
I'll probably be at risk for the rest of my life, so I've done quite a bit of research on this subject.
It used to be assumed that HPV is never cleared, and that if you contract it, you have it for life. Currently, most sources seem to think that it's possible to clear the virus, and that if you do, it's probably going to happen within two years of infection.
The likelihood of clearing it if you have it longer than that become smaller every year (from what I understand).
There are over a 100 different strains of HPV, it's possible to be contaminated with more than one at any given time, and while having and clearing a certain strain will give you lifelong immunity to that specific strain, you can still get infected with it's other forms.
I have no information on if certain strains may be easier to clear than others.
Dysplatia is the symptom caused by HPV that can in turn cause cervical cancer. It's an alteration of the cell that is in a pre-cancer stage. It can be accompanied with a visible enlargement of the cells, but is often only visible under microscope.
It's different than a wart, in that warts aren't necessarily pre-cancerous, though they can be, and the likelihood of cells becoming dusplatic is larger if there have been warts in the area.
Women can still get cancer, or dusplatic cells even if there have never been visible warts.
If you have the virus, and especially if you've already had dysplatic cells, you will need to keep a close eye on your health for the rest of your life, unless your doctor can positively confirm that you've totally cleared the virus.
You should be tested EVER year, whether you've had unprotected sex or not.
Especially when considering a pregnancy you need to be careful, because illness or pregnancy and other conditions that affect and weaken the immune system can trigger outbreaks.
If you have outward symptoms while giving birth, you have a large likelihood of infecting the baby with the virus too, so you need to notify your gynecologist and may need symptom treatment prior to giving birth.
Talk to your doctor about this.
As a side note, there is a relatively new vaccine that is said to protect against the forms of HPV that are most likely to cause dysplatia and cervical cancer. Women who want to get this vaccine should do so before they become sexually active. This vaccine does not protect against all strains of HPV.
If there are any people with more medical expertise than me on this site, who notice any mistakes I may have made in the previous information PLEASE CORRECT THEM.
Ishtar
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