genital warts..?

Question

once theyre treated and disappear, is it okay to get the HPV vaccine or is it too late? Is it pointless to get it once you've already had the warts?

Answer 1

You can still get the vaccine.

It probably won't protect you from getting genital warts though. Since you have had genital warts then you obviously have a kind of HPV that causes them.

It might protect you from contracting a kind of HPV that can cause precancerous cells on the cervix which could eventually become cervical cancer.

If a woman already has HPV it won't cure her of it, but it can possibly prevent her from contracting a kind of HPV she doesn't already have. The vaccine protects against 4 different kinds of HPV (two known to cause about 70% of cervical cancer and two known to cause about 90% of genital warts). Say, for example, a young girl only has one kind of HPV that the vaccine prevents. Theoretically, if she gets the vaccine, she'll be protected from contracting the other 3 kinds of HPV that the vaccine protects against.
http://www.cdc.gov/std/HPV/STDFact-HPV-vaccine.htm

Answer 2

yes you should still get the vaccine. The vaccine helps you not contract the one that causes cervical cancer. If you have warts most likely you don't have the one that causes cancer. I'm an un lucky one and have both types. Talk to your dr. and see what they say

Answer 3

It's pointless to get the vaccine after you contract the virus. Like other viruses, they stay in your body forever. You could get them again. The vaccine is supposed to prevent them from entering the body. If the virus is already there, it's too late.

Answer 4

Its to late. The vaccine is only a way of preventing the virus.

Answer 5

i don't think so