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My old girlfriend was diagnosed with HPV. How do I know if I have. My doctor is clueless.
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It is very hard to tell at this time. Especially if you haven't had any signs of warts appear. What you should do is just take care of yourself. Start taking vitamins such as Centrum. Also make sure to start taking Vitamin E daily. Keep yourself healthy. If you smoke, please try and quit.
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ilf303
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8/27/2002
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Difficult to tell if you aren't showing symptoms. Your chances increase if you participated in unprotected sex. I'd reccomend being extra health concious towards the possiblity of assisting your immune system to supress or prevent an occurence or infection.
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Anonymous
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7/12/2002
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My gyno told me that my partner should go to the urologist for an exam. The urologist will cover the penis in a solution and check to see if any area turns a different color. The warts are not necessarily detectable and can be so small that the eye would miss them. It is possible that when the get irritated it turns red in color. My suggestion is to see the urologist and explain why you think you might have it and then let him/her take it from there.
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Anonymous
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1/22/2003
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3 users have said Thank You! for this answer.
There is no way to conclusively test for HPV. My doctor's answer to this question was.. if you think you have HPV then you probably do. This may seem absurd but remember two things.. HPV is the most commen STD, and that a diagnosis of HPV without pathological identification is an opinion, not a fact.
For a male, there is a process to use a vinegar solution to test for a coloration change (after a few minutes the warts turn white and are visible). This only confirms that suspect area has a wart, not that you are infected by HPV.
This is similar to interpreting the results of an abnormal pap smear and further diagnotsic thin prep testing for a female.
Condoms will NOT protect you. Skin contact where the virus is present is all that is required to transmit the virus. Like HSV, many infected people never have symptoms.
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Anonymous
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3/4/2003
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Are you sure you have warts? Compare to Pictures of Genital Warts