Can HPV turn into genital warts on guys?

Question

I found out I had HPV a year ago or so... My ex the other day state that he got genital warts because of my HPV... Is that even true, for guys does HPV turn into genital warts for guys? Or would could that not even happen... I just would like to know if I am getting blamed for something that wasn't even my fault?? Please help?

Answer 1

If you have a kind of HPV that can cause genital warts, even if you have never physically developed them, you can still pass it on to any person you have sex with.

Take for example cervical cancer caused by HPV. A man can "carry" a kind of HPV that can cause cervical cancer, but he can NOT physically develop cervical cancer from it. However, because he is a "carrier" of it he CAN pass it on to a female he has sex with, which could cause her to develop cervical cancer.

It's the same with genital warts. You might have a kind of HPV that can cause them, even if you never develop warts yourself. You might get genital warts in the future, or you may never get them! It can take several years for warts to show up sometimes.

I have had HPV for 6+ years. I didn't develop genital warts from it till about a year ago! I would have went 5 years without knowing I had HPV if I wasn't diagnosed with it 6 years earlier.

It's also possible that you DON'T have a kind of HPV that causes genital warts, and that your ex might have got it from somewhere else. It's almost impossible to find out "who gave it to who".

If he tries to blame you just ignore him. You might or might not have gave it to him, but there really is no way to know for sure. Take care!

Answer 2

There are over 150 types of HPV. Some cause hand, foot and body warts, and some have no symptoms but can lead to cervical cancer. Only HPV types 6 and 11 cause visible genital warts. The types of HPV that your cervical scrape (pap test) would have checked for would be ones of high risk for cervical cancer. Genital warts (type 6 and 11) are low-risk types. One type of HPV cannot turn into another (eg: a wart on your hand cannot turn into a genital wart).In a nutshell, if you don't have (and never had) visible genital warts, then he almost certainly did not get them from you.

Answer 3

HVP = genital warts
just more likely to show up in girls, which is why guys can spread it before they realize they have it.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Has he had sex or engaged in sex play since you and he broke your relationship? Were you his first sex partner?

Genital warts can show anytime from a few weeks to years.

Visible genital warts are usually low risk HPV types usually 6 or 11. We can carry both low risk and high-risk HPV types. Our HPV test that follows our Pap only screens for high risk HPV types.

20 to 50% of people with low risk HPV types also carry a co-infection with high-risk HPV types.

If he has engaged in sex since you and he was involved any other sex partner could have passed the virus to him. The other sex partner may not have known they carried the virus.

Men whose partner has been diagnosed with high-risk HPV types often can develop small flat warts. Due to many people having both low and high-risk HPV types...there is just no way he he can be sure his genital warts are due to you.

Since he can’t be sure…he should not point fingers.

HPV Associated With Flat Lesions on Penis

By Will Boggs, MD

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Jan 10 - Human papilloma virus (HPV) is
associated
with flat penile lesions that are more common and larger in size in
partners
of women with HPV-related cervical disease, according to a report in
the
January 1st issue of the International Journal of Cancer.

Earlier studies have reported a wide spectrum of penile lesions
associated
with HPV, the authors explain, but these studies have mainly been
restricted
to sexually transmitted disease clinic patients and partners of women
with
HPV-associated disease.

"We know that this virus is sexually transmitted, but we did not know
where
and how the virus was present on the penis," Dr. Chris J. L. M.
Meijer from
VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam told Reuters Health.

Dr. Meijer and colleagues therefore investigated the prevalence of
HPV and
HPV-associated penile lesions in 156 male outpatients at a non-STD
clinic
and in 238 male sexual partners of women with cervical intraepithelial
neoplasia (CIN).

Among male hospital patients, 14.3% had flat penile lesions, the
authors
report. About a third of these men had lesions affecting more than 5
square
millimeters of the penile epithelium.

In contrast, the results indicate, 60.4% of male partners of women
with CIN
had flat penile lesions, and three quarters of these men had lesions
affecting more than 5 square millimeters.

HPV DNA was detected more than twice as often in penile scrapes of the
partners of women with CIN (59.4%) than in the male outpatient
population
(25.3%), the researchers note, and the high-risk type HPV 16 was more
frequently detected in the partners of women with CIN (46.5% versus
19.0%,
respectively).

Median HPV load was more than four times higher in partners of women
with
CIN (5.0 copies/cell) than in the male outpatient population (1.2
copies/cell), the results indicate.

By this and other studies, "we think we have convincingly
demonstrated that
these lesions are the ones that are associated with transmission for
HPV,"
Dr. Meijer said.

"As far as we can extrapolate from our study, only a very small part
(less
than 1%) of these lesions will become malignant," Dr. Meijer
added. "Most of
these lesions will heal by themselves. But the healing time differs
(from 8
months to 14 months). This depends on the presence of HPV...and use of
condoms."

"We have looked for the influence of condom use on flat penile
lesions and
are investigating whether there is a relationship between...penile

Answer 6

It can "lie dormant" for years....you are still "contagious" and need to use condoms and be open and HONEST with EVERY sexual partner.