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Can HPV go away on its own?

By Anonymous April 13, 2009 - 1:08pm
 
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I was just diagnosed as being positive for HPV and will have a culposcopy in a few days. I've done some research and have read that once you have HPV that it will never go away. But I asked the nurse at my doctor's office and she said that in some cases, the HPV will just go away and your body will recover on its own. If that's the case, how often does that occur? What are my chances that my HPV will just eventually go away?

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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

Your partner can get the gardisal vaccine to prevent them from contracting the virus, to he done before any sexual contact.

August 30, 2017 - 1:05am
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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

My understanding is though I was positive for hpv at one time, I am no longer a carrier of it and I can no longer pass it on to anyone. That is what my doctor told me. I don't think there is enough research done about hpv so there are still so many unanswered questions out there. I was in your shoes at one time too and I felt miserable. But now I feel nothing but joy because I no longer have it. Doctor told me it clears up on its own within about two years. I just had a normal pap two months ago.
If you have warts or herpes along with hpv those will never go away. You wil have those for life to my understanding but if you just have hpv it will clear up. Just use protection always. Don't make the same mistake again.

June 3, 2012 - 2:10pm
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Anonymous

Thank you susan, I didn't realize that men could not be tested for it, and because of this I have been freaking out all the more since he got tested about a month ago for std's at the dr's and came back clean as a whistle. What type of clinic should I go to? I assumed I would have to wait to see a gyn? I plan on telling him tonight after he gets off work, and I hope it goes well. When we started being sexually active I didn't have any symptoms of it yet, therefore had no idea that I might have an infection. Now that I've done some research I definately plan on abstaining from sex until they are gone.

As far as the anon who replied to me, I appreciate that glimmer of hope, and I will have to get some epsom salts until I can get into a clinic. With that treatment, how long was it before you started noticing a difference in the "warts?" and if you don't mind my asking, why would your dr not test them or want to remove them?

Thanks so much for the help ladies!

May 28, 2012 - 11:04am
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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

I have no idea why she didn't test me right away. She wanted me to try the home remedy first to see if it was something else. The wart like umps were gone within a week. I took a soak bath with just Epsom salts everyday for a week with no soap and it all cleared up. Best of luck to you. :)

May 28, 2012 - 12:48pm
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Anonymous

To the girl that think she has genital warts, I thought I did too and the doctor told me she thought I did although she didn't test them. What she told me to do was take a very warm bath with Epsom salts for a few weeks everyday. I did it for a week and they went away and never returned. I believe the wart like appearance was actually something else maybe scratching from continuous yeast infections and the skin building up. Needless to say I've never had the same thin happen again. Please try this for a couple weeks and let me know if it goes away. I hope it's not warts for you and that you just had the same thing I had. Good luck. Please keep us updated :)

May 28, 2012 - 9:32am
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Anonymous

Hi, I am 26, and I'm pretty sure that I have developed genital warts, and am waiting for the holiday to finish to try and find a gyn in my area... about a month ago I felt some bumps, but just thought they were razor burn and didn't think anything of it. They didn't go away and I decided to try some antibiotic (which seemed to help for awhile), within the last three or four days it has gotten alot worse. They aren't painful, just multiplying in numbers. I just moved states away for my first job after completing my masters and have been dating the most amazing man for the last couple of months. Needless to say I have no idea when or who I got them from, and I know from my research that that is extremely common. I just know that I'm horribly embarrassed and extremely scared. I have been sexually active with the man I've been dating and am so scared that I have either A. Given it to him, or B. He will no longer feel for me what he claims to feel for me now. But I have read in this thread and other places that once the warts are treated and "go away" that there is a slight chance that the virus will go away on its own. I guess my question is more of a clarification of this. I know it is a virus, therefore incurable, but in the future is it possible for it to run its course on its own and me be tested as negative for the virus, even if the odds are slim? and secondly, how should I approach telling my boyfriend about this?

May 27, 2012 - 11:13pm
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Anonymous

Well I did have my cervix frozen when I was 17.

May 26, 2012 - 12:41pm
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Anonymous

It doesn't "go away on its own". But you can have the cells of your cervical frozen and have a 90% chance of ridding yourself of it. This is only in cases where it is caught in an early stage.

May 26, 2012 - 10:34am
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Anonymous

I have a question about hpv. My doctor says it's curable and that the virus itself can go away. All the information I read about it says otherwise. I also know that the infection can go away on it's own which my doctor also said and I actually asked if the virus can go away on it's own and she said "yes" that there are curable types of viruses and non-curable types of viruses. I'm curious as to if the infection going away on it's own and stays away for ten years that it is considered to be cured and that the infection being able to go away on it's own is what my doctor meant by the virus being curable. She says it takes ten years to know if it is the curable type. Is there a doctor or anyone that has valid insight, facts and knowledge about this disease that can answer my question.

May 23, 2012 - 7:40pm
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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

My doctor said 2 years period. Not ten years. She also said she assumes most women over 35 have it or have had it. I was 17 when I was diagnosed and am now 24 and I do not have it. I don't think it lies dormant I think it truly goes away. I think my doctor would have told me otherwise.

May 23, 2012 - 8:04pm
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