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A college student's experience with HPV/genital warts- - (1 ) comments.
I am now 22 years old and I contracted HPV, I believe, when I was 21. First, I want to comment on the stigma that HPV/genital warts carry and to remind people that ANYONE can have genital warts, no matter how clean/safe they seem. I am an honor student, I played varsity soccer for the private college I attended. My GPA is a 4.0, I've never been in any trouble. I have slept with 0 people at my college. I'm not a slut, I've always been careful. I had the same boyfriend for over 3 years and we never had any infidelity between us. I am not someone that most people would look at and assume to be carrying an incurable STD.
I started dating my current boyfriend in November, 2008. We were sleeping together, and I had recently started birth control and...as passion takes you...we didn't use a condom. I noticed one or two small bumps on his penis but I didn't think much of it. They didn't look like "warts", he had no idea.
After about a month I noticed that when we'd have sex it would sometimes be painful. I thought it was simply because we had a lot of sex and I was sore down there. After maybe a week or two of noticing unusual pain, I took a look in the mirror while I was home from school, and what I saw took me by surprise. There were little bits of skin, they looked something like skin tags. Immediately I freaked and searched the internet. From the internet, the closest match seemed to be genital warts. However, mine really didn't look like the pictures I was seeing. So I calmed myself down and tried to rationalize what else it could be and put it out of my mind. I attempted to make a gyno appointment just to be safe, but as it was short notice and near the holidays, I couldn't make an appointment until February.
Between December and February, my warts grew very quickly. They spread and became increasing uncomfortable. They took a coliflower shape and were all around my vulva. I noticed in February that some were even on my clitoris and spreading a bit to the outer parts of my labia. I cried a lot. I wanted so badly to have my own vagina back. I went through a lot of mental anxiety. I had kept my "bumps" a secret from my boyfriend. I figured, I got them from him, and I'm not positive what they are yet...so until I hear it from the doctor, I don't want to stress him out. But the thought of having to tell him ate away at me. I had no idea how he would react, and everything was so perfect. I couldn't believe this was happening to me, and sex was becoming incrasingly uncomfortable. Even wearing thongs and tight jeans would cause me discomfort.
There were times I would get so frustrated that I would pull of some of the warts (typically a bad idea) using tweezers. It would usually hurt, and most of the time it would bleed. Occassionally the warts would seem to fall off on their own. It would really freak me out when I'd find 4 or 5 warts in my panties.
So I finally got to go to the doctor in February. I was really hoping he could just zap them away, or reassure me that it wasn't as bad as it seemed. As it turns out, he really didn't say much at all. He asked me what I knew, and I said I had read a lot on the internet (althoughas you probably know, information commonly contradicts), and he left it at that. He treated me with some sort of acid, but only did it on about 1/3 of the warts. He said soemtimes the treatment will trigger a response and the warts will begin to go away on their own. That's about all he told me though. He then said to make an apt in April, and to call him in 2 weeks to let him know how I was.
Initially after the treatment, I called my boyfriend and had to fill him in. He was shocked. It took some time but he basically said to me that it was something we would get through together and it would make us stronger. He was mostly worried that he would grow things on his penis. But I told him I honestly, not to blame him at all, but I truly believed he had it already, and if he had it and didn't know it, he probably wouldn't have anything too significant happen to him. He was wonderful about it, and he still is. I'm very lucky.
The doctor told me not to have sex while I still had the warts. I live with my boyfriend. After a couple of days, we ended up having sex (I know-bad idea, should listen to the doctor...but it is what we did). My warts seemed to get better for about a week...then they seemed to get worse for a few weeks and I was so frustrated I was willing to try anything. So i tried the Apple Cider Vinegar treatment I had read abotu on the internet. It made sense....it is acid, just like what the doctor used. So first I tried it on my vulvar warts. It stung like hell, I could only leave it on about 10 minutes at a time. I dn't know if it helped or not. So I tried it on my outer labial warts. I was able to leave it on them for hours at a time, and within a couple days, they all fell off!! I was so happy!!! it totally raised my spirits.
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