Different kind of HPV question....?

Question

After years of poor treatment at my local health department (we are talking FIVE YEARS of abnormal paps before i finally got sent to a specialist!), I finally was diagnosed with HPV. My doctor told him he had never seen such advanced HPV in anyone my age before. I have the high-risk strain, NOT the warts-strain. My fiance got a wart on his penis and went to the urologist and got medicine. It went away for a while. Then it came back worse than before. He is getting it removed next week, but his doctor told him it was HPV. Now he is blaming me for it (not meanly, I told him about my hpv before we even were dating.) If I don't have warts or the HPV strain of warts, could I have given it to him? Or did he get it somewhere else?? I'm very confused about this....

Answer 1

It's possible you have a kind of HPV that can cause genital warts, even if you have never physically had them yourself. It can take several months and even years for genital warts to show up (if they ever do) after a person has been infected. I have personally had HPV for 6+ years and I didn't develop genital warts from it till about a year ago! It took 5 years for my genital warts to show up.

So, it's possible you have a kind of HPV that causes genital warts, and it's possible you spread it to your boyfriend which caused him to develop genital warts.

It's also possible that HE had it for a while and never showed any signs of it. He could have contracted HPV years ago from a previous sex partner and just never knew. Since there is no test to detect HPV in men, most men go years and years before realizing they have the virus. Most men find out they have HPV by developing genital warts. But, like I said before, it can take a LONG time to develop them once a person has been infected with HPV.

There is a test you can have done by your doctor that can tell you what specific kind or kinds of HPV you have, but it's VERY expensive. I asked my doctor about it before and she said it would cost well over $1000 and that it wasn't really worth it. If you are willing to spend some big bucks then go for it. Other than that, you'll probably never know "who gave it to who".

Good luck and take care!

Answer 2

There are several strains of HPV causing Genital warts. If the strain of HPV is same for both of you, then it can be suspected that you have given infection to him through unprotected sex. If the strains are different, then he might have obtained infection from elsewhere.
A group of about 30-40 HPVs is typically transmitted through sexual contact and infect the anogenital region. Some sexually transmitted HPVs, such as types 6 and 11, can cause genital warts. However, most HPV types that infect the genitals tend not to cause noticeable symptoms.
Persistent infection with a subset of about 13 so-called "high-risk" sexually transmitted HPVs, including types 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, and 68 — different from the ones that cause warts — can lead to the development of cervical dyskaryosis, or precancerous lesions. In women, this may lead to cancer of the cervix. In men, such infection may lead to anal or penile cancer. HPV infection is a necessary factor in the development of nearly all cases of cervical cancer.
Please see the web pages for more details on HPV and Genital warts.

Answer 3

He could have been infected with a strain that causes warts, you did not necessarily given it to him, unless you have one of the high risk strains and one that causes warts! You can be infected with different strains at the same time. That is the crappy part of HPV, you never know who gave it to you! It can lay dormant in your system for years before it surfaces.

Answer 4

I do think you could have given it to him. People are different and lots of diseases that don't make one person sick produce symptoms in others.But who's to say he didn't get it somewhere else? Only HE would know who he's had sex with and whether or not he got proof that they were disease-free. I would never have sex with someone before getting that proof. Not worth the trouble.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Even if you don't have the warts, you still have the virus in your body and can pass it to anyone you are sexually active with.

Answer 7

you might have it, they are no tests to check for that one. the only test available checks for the high risk strain. you may very well have both, talk to your doctor again and ask him how he specifically knows that you dont also carry the other strains