HPV and having unprotected sex?
I am not embarrassed to say that I had contracted HPV. I’ve ALWAYS practiced safe sex. Only took one stupid time with one person! (SO WEAR PROTECTION!)
This was a couple years ago. I have had no reoccurance since. I am aware It is a virus. My question is.. I’ve with someone who I know I will be with forever…
Do we have to use a condom for the rest of my life now? What are the risks of contracting it without any external symptoms.
Thank you, Merry Xmas
Thanks, Bunny 
I never had it too bad, I got my Gardisil injection before i contracted it, and have since had all three shots. I hadn’t had it too bad in the first place, a couple here and there.
Hey bunny, I have little tiny white dots between my Vagina and anus. Are they of concern or just cells or fordyce spots
Renae:
CONDOMS ARE NOT GOOD PROTECTION AGAINST HPV!!!!.
It’s true you may have gotten HPV from that one time of unprotected sex, but you could have just as easily got it from all those times of protected sex. Condoms reduce HPV transmission slightly, but if you have protected sex with someone several times, you are going to get whatever types of HPV he has.
Using condoms in the future is certainly a good idea. Condoms reduce the risk of all sort of things, and they are excellent protection against HIV. But they won’t stop you from transmitted HPV or from getting another strain.
HPV is not forever as some people insist. Most people (91%) clear the virus within 2 years. Some people have it forever, but that is not the norm. Did you ever have a wart on you hand or foot when you were a child? All warts are caused by HPV you know. Let me answer for you. Are you still contagious for that? YOU’RE NOT. At some point HPV stops affecting you and you stop being contagious. While you may have viral DNA fragments at the cellular level, you are cured in every way that matters.
The main problem with HPV is that there is no way to determine exactly when you stop being contagious so it’s a tricky situation to determine how low you have to inform your future partners for. Some people say forever since there is styill a chance you can spread it, but I disagee. HPV is so common, that everyone who’s ever had sex has some chance of spreading it. After a couple of years with no symptoms, the chance of you passing HPV is similar to someone who’s never been diagnosed.
I just don’t think it’s fair that us people with HPV issues (who are 90% women btw) should be responsible for stopping the spread of HPV. I might be for us always informing our future partners if I thought that would have ANY effect of the rate of HPV infections, but the truth is that it would not. Too many undiagnosed people are out there spreading it, and until we come up with a reliable way to determine whether someone is contagious, I think having had HPV is you business.
HPV is simply a risk that you have to take if you want to have sex EVER. You should assume there is a possiblity of HPV exposure with every single sex partner. You sex partners should assume the same thing about you, and if they don’t it’s do to their own ignorance.
The only other thing I’d recommend, is that if you do decide to tell your future partners, you might tell future partners to get Gardasil. I don’t know what strain you have, but Gardasil protects against 4 strains, 2 that cause 90% of genital warts and 2 that cause 90% of cervical cancer. One of the cancer strains it protects against is HPV 16 which is linked the most HPV-causes oral, anal, penile, vaginal and vulvar cancers. Gardasil has been approved for use in men. While you partner still may get HPV, this reduces the chance that HPV will cause issues for them or their future partners.
Good luck.
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