Comments on: I have a couple questions about HPV Genital warts..? http://www.informationonhpv.com/stories/i-have-a-couple-questions-about-hpv-genital-warts/ Symptoms Of HPV, STDs, Genital Warts and Various Remedies and Treatments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:05:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Peaches http://www.informationonhpv.com/stories/i-have-a-couple-questions-about-hpv-genital-warts/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Peaches Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:01:46 +0000 http://www.informationonhpv.com/492/i-have-a-couple-questions-about-hpv-genital-warts/#comment-150 The body CAN rid itself of the virus, but there is no way to do that for sure. Once you have HPV (which is the viruses that CAUSES the warts), you always have it. How often someone gets a wart varies from person to person: someone with HPV may get one wart (which is often how they find out they have it) and never get another one, another person may get them often, and another might NEVER have one. Depends on the person and on the strain of HPV that they have. HPV can show up on a pap smear, even if the person doesn't have a condyloma (wart) at the time. So, it is NOT true that there is 'no test' for it if there isn't one there. It also isn't true that you have to have a C-section if you have HPV. If you have warts present at the time of birth, perhaps they would, but not if you don't have any at the time (if that were the case, almost all women would be having C-sections all the time, since HPV is so incredibly common). You don't run the risk of passing it on to the fetus if there aren't warts present when you deliver. Planned Parenthood may not want to treat the warts because they are not in the vaginal area, and they don't specialize in treating things in any other area. Don't worry about having to wait to get in to see the specialists, it's not going to cause you any harm to have to wait. They just want to err on the side of caution, since it's not something they normally do. Don't feel badly for contracting this infection. It is extremely common, more women HAVE it than DON'T have it. People are always going to judge, but don't let them get to you...they're morons, and they're ignorant. Having HPV (or any STD, really) doesn't make you a whore, it only takes sex one time with one person to get one. Hope all of this helps. The body CAN rid itself of the virus, but there is no way to do that for sure. Once you have HPV (which is the viruses that CAUSES the warts), you always have it. How often someone gets a wart varies from person to person: someone with HPV may get one wart (which is often how they find out they have it) and never get another one, another person may get them often, and another might NEVER have one. Depends on the person and on the strain of HPV that they have.

HPV can show up on a pap smear, even if the person doesn't have a condyloma (wart) at the time. So, it is NOT true that there is 'no test' for it if there isn't one there.

It also isn't true that you have to have a C-section if you have HPV. If you have warts present at the time of birth, perhaps they would, but not if you don't have any at the time (if that were the case, almost all women would be having C-sections all the time, since HPV is so incredibly common). You don't run the risk of passing it on to the fetus if there aren't warts present when you deliver.

Planned Parenthood may not want to treat the warts because they are not in the vaginal area, and they don't specialize in treating things in any other area. Don't worry about having to wait to get in to see the specialists, it's not going to cause you any harm to have to wait. They just want to err on the side of caution, since it's not something they normally do.

Don't feel badly for contracting this infection. It is extremely common, more women HAVE it than DON'T have it. People are always going to judge, but don't let them get to you…they're morons, and they're ignorant. Having HPV (or any STD, really) doesn't make you a whore, it only takes sex one time with one person to get one.

Hope all of this helps.

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