WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for February, 2000: Re: HPV

Re: HPV

From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:41:04 -0600 (CST)

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At Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Lynn wrote: >
>I thought that the only way you could pass on HPV is if you actually had
>a wart.

Unfortuntely, incorrect. You can actually pass it on without any visible source of HPV.

> I only had one wart over ten years ago I was told if I didn't
>get another one for 2 years I'd be o.k.

Unfortuntely, also wrong.

>Now I have CIN3 and I'm
>wondering if I should contact all my ex's because they might infect
>their girlfriends and they will end up with dysplasia to.

Impossible to know when you may haave been "reinfected" so this is a difficult one to answer. IF you wish to present it, you also have to say that this may be a more recent "reinfection".

>Is it true
>that all the guys I've had unprotected sex with now also have HPV

No. Possible but not definte.

>and if
>it is a precursor to dysplasia in women is it a precursor to anything in
>men.

If women get CIN, guys can get PIN (penile intraepithelial neoplasia.

>Why isn't there enough information and education for a virus that
>is so common and potentially life threatening?

There's loads of info around. Every doctor should be giving it out. I tell all my patients, in addition to whatever they wish to use for birth control (especially in non-monogamous relationships), condoms, condoms and condoms.

--
Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York

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