if your no longer showing HPV symptons and started dating again, should you tell your partner that you were infected before having sex with them? how should that conversation go ?
woman, if you found out your boyfriend has or had HPV would a girl breakup or not date the person ?
they say 50% woman are infected, is this true ?
You are probably less contagious after a few years with no additional abnormal cell detected…the same would hold true of genital warts you would probably be less contagious after a year or so. You can’t guarantee that a new sex partner will not share your HPV infection. HPV can lie is a silent state for years after the initial infection.
I personally feel that being up front and honest is important in any relationship…the discovery that a person withheld the knowledge that they had/have HPV could cause serious consequences in a relationship that I had with the person…trust is the base of all good relationships…lies and deceptions are just not good with me…I am very open about my past HPV infection.
Yes you should share the information of any past abnormal pap smear or external genital warts with any new sex partner. The American Social Heath Association can help you with ways to tell a new sex partner.
ashastd.org
Yes 50% of the population
Some people only have one episode, while others have recurrences
When warts are present, the virus is considered active
When warts are gone, the virus is latent (sleeping) in the skin cells – it may or may not be contagious at this time
Transmission to sex partners with subclinical (invisible) HPV is not well understoond. Some experts think it may be less contagious than when the cell changes are not present.
Sometimes treatment may not even be necessary for mild cervical dysplasia. these cells can heal on their own and the health care provider will just want to monitor the cervix. HPV may then be in a latent (sleeping) state, but it is unknown if it totally gone or just not detectable.
It is important for partners to understand the "entire picture" about HPV so that both people can make informed decisions based on facts, not fear or misconceptions.
Condoms do not provide 100% in preventing the transmission of HPV
At least 50% of sexually active men and women acquire genital HPV infection at some point in their lives.
cdc.gov/std/HPV/STDFact-HPV.h…
At least 50% of sexually-active men and women will acquire genital HPV infection at some point in their lives, and at least 80% of these women will have acquired genital HPV by 50 years of age
merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/di…
This immune response either eradicates the virus or suppresses it to non-detectable levels. Therefore, it is not yet known whether an HPV infection that appears to have cleared clinically is really eradicated or simply remains below the sensitivity level for detection with current molecular techniques.
Some HPV infections are thought to be suppressed and their genomes maintained in a long-term latent state (i.e., subclinical infection with a very small group of cells presumably maintaining infection at low DNA copy numbers). Support for a latent state for HPV infection comes from the observation that in some women genital warts can resolve spontaneously only to recur (i.e., reactivate) during pregnancy or when the immune system becomes compromised (e.g., HIV infection). it is not yet clear how commonly latency occurs in immunocompetent hosts, its ultimate duration, the circumstances and mechanisms that trigger re-emergence of HPV into a detectable state, whether latent HPV infection is ultimately eliminated in most individuals, or whether latent infection can persist, possibly leading to cervical cancer.
merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/di…