Posted by AMD on February 7, 2006, at 9:13:45
In reply to HPV, posted by AMD on January 31, 2006, at 15:30:03
The dreaded has happened. I appear to have a small wart on the shaft of my penis. It's about a millimeter in diameter, skin-colored, and raised. It must be a wart.
Suddenly I feel completely dirty and disgusting.
Some questions for the HPV experts:
a) Is one wart a sign that many more will appear? I've had this bump for two years (perhaps I did have HPV after all), but only recently has it begun to look more like a wart and less like a blocked follicle. I mean, it's cauliflower in appearance, which is not what it looked like before.
b) My girlfriend was diagnosed with HPV via an abnormal pap smear. I engage in oral sex with her. Can I expect to begin seeing these unslightly warts on my face? I'm freaking out over this.
c) I am going to have this wart surgically removed tomorrow. I know there's a chance for it to reappear, but isn't there also a chance my body will have eliminated the HPV virus? And if it had, would the wart have gone with it? (That is, does the presense of a wart indicate one still has HPV?)
d) Does the single wart -- if it's the only one -- indicate some constitutional weakness in my immune system? I heard most of these infections are asymptomatic and thus it's worrying me I have a wart at all.
e) Will I start getting warts all over my body now? I have this horrible image in my mind of my body disfigured by bumps, particularly my face.
:(
amd
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