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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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hpv goes by unnoticed but classed as std ?......scarey 50% of men and women have it and its passed on by sexual contact even with condoms and also passed with oral .....you dont know you have it unless tested usually this is picked up on a womans routine smear test ....please only comment if you have experienced this .....not looking for snide comments as heyho nearly all of us on here might have it
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Every pharmacy in the country have self test kits, FREE,, pink for girls and blue for boys. once detected it is easily cleared and then you have immunity, but only from that strain as it seems to be a bit like flu!.
Similarly vaccines only protect, at present, from type 16 and 18. |
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By *adyA01Woman
over a year ago
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It is not easily cleared! There something like 100 different strains it also causes verrucas or warts if you get it on your skin! I found out on my last smear that I had pre cancerous cells and the HPV virus was present. Yesterday I had a biopsy taken and now have to wait 6 weeks for the results, I also had an abnormal smear in my twenty's. The consultant told me that the virus once you have it can lie dormant in the body and that it is possible I have had it since my twentys and it has re activated which has caused my abnormal smear this time. I have recently done a lot of research on the internet and there may well be a way of getting rid of it, and I have decided to try it, although I don't want to put it up here yet as I want to try it first and make sure it works first! The literature I have had on HPV is that 80% of us have had it or will get it in one form or another. The literature I have says you can continue to enjoy sex and if you have abnormal cells on your cervix you won't pass it on from those cells! |
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http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2611.aspx
Human papilloma virus (HPV) is the name for a group of viruses that affect your skin and the moist membranes lining your body, for example, in your cervix, anus, mouth and throat. There are more than 100 types of HPV. Around 40 types of HPV infection can affect the genital area.
Infection with some types of HPV can cause: abnormal tissue growth and other changes to cells within your cervix, which can lead to cervical cancer genital warts, which is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the UK
Other types of HPV infection can cause minor problems, such as common skin warts and verrucas.
In 2008, a national vaccination programme was launched to vaccinate girls against HPV 16 and HPV 18. The vaccine is most effective if it's given a few years before a girl becomes sexually active, so it's given to girls between the ages of 12 and 13. The vaccine protects against the two strains of HPV responsible for more than 70% of cervical cancers in the U.K. However you should still attend your future screening appointments even if you have been vaccinated.
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