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Emmmrld -> RE: HPV (5/10/2005 4:32:50 PM)
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I would get tested and document this. Keep a journal.
There have been cases of people being jailed for infecting someone with HIV.
Since HPV can (not always) lead to cervical cancer in women, this could develop later into more problems. Then again it could not. At the very least I'd report him and her to the health department. They track people spreading communicable diseases. If your area starts to see an increase in HPV cases it could become something of a problem for the medical community and thus he's caused a problem. Granted it's not like HIV or HepC but I'd still report them.
I was 18 and never had unprotected sex in my life and had a bad pap. I had a horrible female doctor who told me that any young girl having sex before marriage deserved what she got. She told me it was HPV (told I got it from unprotected sex) and I had cryo freeze done. Now, I'm 33 and I'm wiser and able to do more research.
I recently turned up with a bad pap. The statistics on paps being read wrong are incredible so I demanded another pap. That clinic wouldn't do it so I went to Planned Parenthood. That pap turned up bad too. So I had to go in for the colposcopy - where they use the speculum and then look at you with a microscope to see the bad cells. They found nothing. They've referred me to an OBGYN where I'm told he'll try to get further up my cervix to see if cells deeper in are the problem.
I asked why they would need to do that if the pap only took the cells from the exposed or visible area. They couldn't answer me. I asked if having had sex a few weeks before my pap the first time could have triggered a false positive. They couldn't answer me. I asked how it is that a second pap came back bad but they can't find anything. Again the couldn't answer me. They can't answer because frankly not enough reasearch has been done on women's health issues - especially reproductive issues. It's only been with in the last 20 years that they've researched that women have different signs than men do that they are having a heart attack.
My mother, married to my father for over 30 years. They are no swingers (I'm out to them about kink and they've shared they do not share partners). After I had my problems at 18 my mother had irregular paps. She had the same procedure done as I. She was never told it was an STD. EVER. My aunt (father's sister) developed the same problems. She was married. She was never told it was an STD. EVER. Yet I'm single, having sex out of marriage and the first words out of their mouth are "STD". HMMMM
I was told by doctors that dysplasia and HPV are the same. I was told by another doctor that it's not. I worked in the medical field for a while and understand how to read my chart. I asked to see my pathology report for the first bad pap this last year. They listed it as "HPV/Dysplasia". Interesting - because if they were two seperate things, the medical field would assign them two different codes.
A friend of my mother's had a bad pap. She waited and her body cleared it. She was told it was displasia.
Several folks have given statistics. I have read numerous things on this subject because I'm affected by it. One thing I can tell you for certain. There is not enough research done on this to have an absolute answer to what it is, how you get it, and if it's curable. As long as women can talk openly, share information, question our doctors and their knowledge we will learn more about how to protect ourselves and how to treat such things.
People can tell you to not stress out over it, but you will, I did. Best thing to do is to face it head on - YOU take charge of it, not it take charge of you. Learn from this, educate yourself, talk to other women and potential partners.
Good luck to you!
If you need/want a ear drop me a line privately - I'd be happy to listen.
~Em
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