I went to a clinic and was told that it looked like I had genital warts, but that they didn''t treat it so I had to see a gynecologist. I was scared and waited a bit. Within 2 weeks the warts were gone. Is this normal? Was it really warts or something else?

Your GP has probably never seen a real case of genital warts and only covered it for 5 minutes in med school.

Genital warts do not resolve in 2 weeks. This could have been anything, but unlikely that a herpes outbreak could be confused with a wart by a physician, they look nothing alike and herpes is very painfull where warts are not.

3/5/2003

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I had this same experience
sorta.... it could have been herpes... HPV does not usually disapear that fast. I mean it can, but that is not usual...
they could have even been ingrown hairs... or folicles

etc:

2/1/2003

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http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/stdhpv.htm

12/26/2003

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