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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here- already talked with my doctor. Talking to another doctor later this week. Only real probability was a recent partner. I don't know why the type of std matters.[/quote]
It matters because HPV can be in your system for years and then reactivate. [/quote]

Not really. Usually your body completely clears an hpv infection or you will continue to test positive for it. By “laying dormant,” it means the hpv infection isn’t causing any precancerous cells, not that it’s undetectable. If someone tests negative for hpv and then tests positive, it almost always means they have a new infection. [/quote]

That is completely wrong.[/quote]

No, it’s not. As long as the hpv is in your system, even if you have no symptoms of infection and no cellular changes, you will test positive for it. For most people, hpv clears itself COMPLETELY in about two years, but in some people it can last decades. If you tested negative and then test positive a few years later, you have a new infection. FACTS.[/quote]

Wrong!

Men are not tested for HPV

https://www.cancer.org.au/cervicalscreening/i-am-over-25/what-does-my-test-result-mean/what-about-my-partner#

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/infectious-diseases/sexual-health-sexually-transmitted-infections/hpv-men-questions-answers.html#

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You’re misunderstanding those websites. They have dumbed things down and have missed the mark. They are trying to counsel women who have just found out they have hpv (and possible cellular changes) from a bad Pap smear/positive hpv test result. Most people are infected with hpv when they first start getting intimate in their late teens/early 20s. Women start getting Pap smears, fairly young, at around 18-21, but they don’t start screening for hpv until around 30ish, to avoid false alarms, because practically everyone will test positive for hpv before that. So, it’s possible that a 30 year old woman, in a committed relationship, has tested positive for the first time for an hpv strain her body cannot clear that she first got when she was 22. That strain has lain dormant and not has caused any bad Pap smears, but for some reason, her body cannot clear it and she needs to be cautioned about it. That is the situation where no cheating is involved. That’s very different than a 40 something married woman who has had a series of hpv tests suddenly having a positive hpv test. That means her husband is cheating.[/quote]

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