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This section is here to help new visitors deal with HPV and Genital Warts. As many of us with HPV know, it takes some time to come to terms with this virus. Please share your story with the community!

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Posted: 7/5/2003
Read these Personals!!!! - (4 ) comments.
I'm 28 years old, have had a very active sex life and it's caught up to me through this virus. I'm ...>more

Posted: 7/1/2003
Feel like this is controlling me... - (10 ) comments.
I'm a 26 year old male that just got formally diagnosed with HPV a few days ago. I am fairly inform ...>more

Posted: 7/1/2003
life and fait - (4 ) comments.
heres the deal, we are all faced with choices in our lives, what we dont realise is that some choice ...>more

Posted: 6/22/2003
Can't express how important safety is...... - (4 ) comments.
I'm 24 I was given Hpv by a rapist 14 yrs ago. I didn't test positive until a yr. after the rape. (1 ...>more

Posted: 6/17/2003
14 with HPV? - (1 ) comments.
I am a 14 year old female and I think I have HPV. I am a virgin, but my present boyfriend has done o ...>more

Posted: 6/14/2003
Don't freak out if you have bumps! - (6 ) comments.
Recently, I noticed two small white bumps on my vulva. I am at low risk for STD's, but I freaked ou ...>more

Posted: 6/9/2003
75% means you're not alone - (5 ) comments.
75% of people have HPV. That means 3/4 of *all* the people you know are infected with it! Having HPV ...>more

Posted: 6/2/2003
Balanitis - (1 ) comments.
In case you think you have HPV make sure you go to a dermatologist. I went to a General Practioner ...>more

Posted: 5/31/2003
im sad - (5 ) comments.
im so sad i got this virus. i hope things will be better for me in the future. deanne ...>more

Posted: 5/29/2003
need opinion - (4 ) comments.
I am in a commited relationship with someone who has been diagnosed with genital warts. I'm still v ...>more

Posted: 5/25/2003
Shit Happens - (4 ) comments.
I been married twice. I believe my first wife had told me she might have had gential wartz. At the t ...>more

Posted: 5/23/2003
my story - (7 ) comments.
I have had genital warts for over 10 years. I was infected from a very brief relationship during col ...>more

Posted: 5/19/2003
one bump - (4 ) comments.
what if i only have one bump on my pubic area (lips)? ...>more

Posted: 5/18/2003
HPV IS EVERYWHERE...... - (7 ) comments.
Hi, Im 24 years old last year I discovered that Im infected with HPV, Im from Mexico, and trust me i ...>more

Posted: 5/17/2003
not so bad - (1 ) comments.
when i got herpes i thought my life was over. i was so uspet for days on end. i got to reading on te ...>more

Posted: 5/17/2003
Didn't Have Sex- Got it! - (4 ) comments.
I got HPV in high school. I didn't know I had it, till after college. I didn't even have sex. I w ...>more

Posted: 5/16/2003
What have I done? - (2 ) comments.
I am eighteen and gay. A couple months ago I got involved with a couple of guys who I have grown to ...>more

Posted: 5/12/2003
I will survive - (4 ) comments.
I started having sex when i was 16. I thought I was in love so I lost my virginity to a complete ...>more

Posted: 5/7/2003
A Virgin Turned Infectee - (4 ) comments.
I've only had sex with ONE person. I am a 20 year old female, and I lost my virginity at the age of ...>more

Posted: 5/6/2003
it's hard - (2 ) comments.
one night when i was with one of my best friends(which was a girl), we started talking about people ...>more

Posted: 5/5/2003
always feeling dirty! - (6 ) comments.
About 10 months ago i started talking to a girl that was amazing. For 10 months now everything has ...>more

Posted: 4/29/2003
It happens to the best of us- - (4 ) comments.
I was almost 20 years old when I had a brief sexual encounter with this one man. I had just gotten ...>more

Posted: 4/29/2003
I Just Found Out - (5 ) comments.
I found out that I have HPV about a week or 2 ago. I'm 18 years old and really struggling with it. I ...>more

Posted: 4/28/2003
trying to cope w/ HPV - (4 ) comments.
im 16 years old. and i have just been told that i have HPV. and that i have dysplasia and im having ...>more

Posted: 4/28/2003
I'm 23 female and why me? - (1 ) comments.
well I found out that I have HPV (genital warts) when they start to appear on me one day a year ago ...>more

Posted: 4/27/2003
Oh What a price to Pay... - (1 ) comments.
I had a "severe" abnormal pap 3 years ago. My first wart appeared last month. I thought it was a ras ...>more

Posted: 4/24/2003
Stupid me. - (2 ) comments.
I was 15 when I lost my virginity to my boyfriend. We dated on and off for four years since I was 14 ...>more

Posted: 4/21/2003
Growing up too fast - (1 ) comments.
Hey I'm only 17 I was diagnosed about a week after my 17 birthday which was in the middle of this pa ...>more

Posted: 3/29/2003
HANG IN THERE! - (12 ) comments.
Hello, I realized I had been infected with HPV about 1 year ago. I was extremely distraught when ...>more

Posted: 3/16/2003
- (2 ) comments.
This is very scary, but I think that it was definitely a sign from God that I need to take better ca ...>more

Posted: 3/10/2003
the day a lost the day a got - (3 ) comments.
I think my story is the saddest of all. When I was 14 I met the women of my life. I dated her for ...>more

Posted: 3/5/2003
Just found out my boyfriend has HPV - (13 ) comments.
Hello all! By the way this is a great forum, best I've found yet! Anyways I just recently found out ...>more

Posted: 3/5/2003
Why??????? - (3 ) comments.
At 45 years of age I never in my wildest dreams would have thought I would be diagnosed with a STD. ...>more

Posted: 3/4/2003
23 and I feel life is over! - (9 ) comments.
I am a 23 yr old male. I have had 4 partners in my life. Lots to some few to others. I just found ou ...>more

Posted: 2/28/2003
How can me or my girlfriend have HPV? - (2 ) comments.
Hello, I am so confused about my current status right now with this HPV infection. I have seen this ...>more

Posted: 2/24/2003
Young and Nieve - (1 ) comments.
I was 18 and seeing an older guy. we always had unprotected sex and he had cheated on me. I was very ...>more

Posted: 2/14/2003
nervous about new relationships? - (13 ) comments.
It can be o.k.! Recently I started a new relationship with someone. I was dreading "the moment" when ...>more

Posted: 2/9/2003
Why us? - (4 ) comments.
we found out we had genital warts when my girlfriend went to a prenatal check(pregnancy check-up). W ...>more

Posted: 2/9/2003
I was infected when I lost my virginity): - (5 ) comments.
I will never forget the day that I found out that i had genital warts. I felt like my life was over ...>more

Posted: 2/7/2003
Cultural Difference in the Attitude toward Inflected - (5 ) comments.
When the inflected is living in USA or Europe, his possibility of being accepted by other people inc ...>more

Posted: 2/6/2003
I don't know what to think! - (5 ) comments.
Last year in May I went for my annual exam and my pap smear came back abnormal. I didn't know until ...>more

Posted: 2/6/2003
i was so dumb! - (8 ) comments.
i was always the good girl in the family closley watched me and my momma never really talked so i ju ...>more

Posted: 1/20/2003
There is life after HPV - (12 ) comments.
When I was 21yrs. old I was dignosed with HPV, I had a adnormal pap showing Dysplasia, resulting fro ...>more

Posted: 1/13/2003
So young and alot to deal with - (1 ) comments.
Hi i was 16 and alone and wanted some attention, i needed to prove something and i was all confused, ...>more

Posted: 1/8/2003
I have something that 50+% of sexually active ppl have... - (11 ) comments.
When I was 16 years old I went to the gyno. for my very first check up. Because I was a virin. I t ...>more

Posted: 1/5/2003
You need to know ! - (10 ) comments.
I did not know that shaving close to that area would cuase me warts. If you have HPV and want to ...>more

Posted: 1/1/2003
Lets not beat ourselves up so much... :) - (14 ) comments.
When I found out about my infection, I was very angry and ashamed for a long, long time. But then, ...>more

Posted: 9/4/2002
This can't be true! - (4 ) comments.
Hi i'm 16 yrs. old and I have been diagnosed with HPV. Well I have been dating this one boy for a ...>more

Posted: 8/25/2002
How Could Something Like This Happen To Me? - (13 ) comments.
Growing up in a Christian family I knew the "rights" from the "wrongs" but I struggled in the areas ...>more

Posted: 8/19/2002
Rediculous - (8 ) comments.
I have always been super pious. My sexual experience is very limited and I have always been the one ...>more

Posted: 7/12/2002
To the newcomer - (6 ) comments.
I am a newly married man that just recently found out that my wife was infected with genital warts. ...>more

Posted: 6/20/2002
I was so ignorant... - (75 ) comments.
I'm a 21 year old female just diagnosed with HPV this afternoon after I discovered some warts on the ...>more

Posted: 4/11/2002
For the better.. - (34 ) comments.
After being exposed to HPV - I began doing research online. All the reading about proper immune func ...>more

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