Why was HPV detected when I didn't even have sex for 2 years?

Answer 1

HPV can be in the body for several years and go unnoticed. It doesn't matter you have haven't had sex in years or not.

That is why it is so important for women to get their yearly pap smears done. Pap smears are the best thing a woman can get to detect HPV and any signs or precancerous or cancerous cells on the cervix.

I have had HPV for over 6 years. I developed genital warts from them a little over a year ago. If I wouldn't have got a pap smear 6 years ago, I would have never knew I had HPV for all those years until I developed the warts!

Answer 2

Your immune system was probably low and it started to show...
The same thing happened to me. I was seeing someone and when I was diagnosed we were not sexually active.
Medical Statistics say that it's impossible to trace which partner gave it to you since HPV can lay dormant in your body. Some people never have symptoms of HPV. That is why facts say that 75% of people have it and don't even know it.

Your immune system will either learn to control it by keeping it surpressed or will clear it out completely...no one will ever know, since it's only a skin virus. The one way for HPV to be detected is either with a leisune (genital wart) or abnormal papsmear by your doctor.

Don't worry...HPV is a very managable skin virus. As long as you keep with your doctor visits and are healhty your body will fight it off w/ in the first 2 years. There is no cure for the virus but it's managable.

Research on it...healthandhpv.com and www.webmd.com
or google HPV...

Answer 3

Transmission HPV is usually contracted through vaginal and/or anal sex. It is possible, but unlikely, for it to be contracted through oral sexual contact. Direct skin-to-skin contact easily spreads the infection--the virus is not transmitted throuhg blood or body fluids. Actual intercourse with penetration is not necessary to transfer this infection. Transmission can occur with same sex or opposite sex partners. Although the types of HPV that cause visible warts spread more easily, people infected with subclinical HPV, who show no signs of infection, are also contagious and can infect others. There is at least a 64% chance of contracting HPV with each act of unprotected sex with an infected partner.


I'm sorry and I hope things get better for you. Keep on top of this because HPV can be related to cervical cancer.

Answer 4

HPV is known to 120 type strains but 37 are known to sexual transmitted disease with high contagion. It would be spreaded through skin to skin contact with infected area during sexual intercourse, especially for genital area.

Also the HPV may cause genital warts. Some are visible, and some are invisible. But that do not mean there is no HPV virus in your body.

You should take the Colopyohly to see what type you have. The two type of high risky may cause genital warts. The other two type is associated with cervical cancer.

Answer 5

HPV is a virus that can lie dormant in your body after exposure. Stress, illness, injury, infection can supress your immune system temporarily and the HPV virus can then be activated and subsequently detected.

Answer 6

ok, it's not inherited. 3/4 of the population have had hpv at some point in their life. It's not serious if caught and treated. Most of the time, your body gets rid of it, it's a virus. There are several strands, cervical cancer, genital warts... I don't know what kind you have, but it can be dormant in your system for years.

Answer 7

STDs dont have to be transfered through sexual activity. And you might have had HPV before quit having sex.

Answer 8

Evidently whenever u were sexually active you contracted HPV from your partner.

Answer 9

the incubation time is anywhere from 1 month to several years

Answer 10

HPV doesnt have to come from sex. You inerit it i thikn. its more common in women. ive seen adds on tv. Human papaloma virus ...