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Can Abnormal Cells From Hpv On Your Cervix Affect Your Sex Partner?
and can they keep giving them back to you?
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Well yeah if you have HPV you can give it to them…they can’t give it back unless you don’t have it any more though
Your sex partner will share your HPV type. However your partner may never show signs or symptoms of the virus. Men are infected with genital HPV…at about the same rate that women are. Some men will show flat nearly invisible warts of the penis…but most show no signs. They can share the virus with a new sex partner.
Cancer of the penis is linked to genital HPV types….although rare. Oral cancer and anal cancer are also closely linked to high risks genital HPV types….so men can develop problems due to the virus…but men most often do not carry the same health burden as women do.
Once you have an HPV type you can’t get it again. So you and your partner will not ping pong the virus back and forth…but each individual is different in the regression of the virus…while many gals with a low grade cell changes will have the virus regress in a year or so…some women will take 3 years while others have a more difficult time.
Women with immune disorder…or auto-immune disorders may have a more difficult time in having the virus regress.
You don’t ping pong the virus back and forth…but if your body is not building anti-bodies to your shared HPV type or types…then your body may be more likely to auto-inoculate itself to your shared virus…sex allows for micro-abrasions…the virus sheds virus particles and these particles enters the micro-abrasions that sex creates…and starts the replication of the virus.
Condoms may help the virus regress…using condom until you have two clear paps may be a good thing..condoms probably don’t help for the long term.
Condoms are something you and your partner will need to discuss.
CAN CONDOMS HELP CLEAR HPV?
Two studies from the Netherlands may suggest that consistent condom use can speed the regression of human papilloma virus (HPV)-related lesions on the cervix and on the penis and shorten the time it takes to clear HPV infections. The researchers believe that their findings add to the evidence that condoms can be a useful tool in the prevention of HPV-related cancers, though some experts consider the issue still unresolved.
Researchers from VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam and Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Dordrecht described their results in two articles in the International Journal of Cancer (2003;107:804–810 and 811–816). Both studies involved long-term (8 to 10 years) monogamous heterosexual couples in which the women had cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN).
In the study that evaluated the effect of condom use on cervical lesions, women were randomized into two groups: one that used condoms during sexual intercourse for at least three months (64 women assessed) and one that did not use condoms (61 women assessed). The women’s lesions were followed by colposcopy, cytology, and a polymerase chain reaction assay for HPV at regular intervals. There were no statistical differences between the two groups of women in terms of age, smoking status, or general sexual history (number of partners, age at first intercourse, history of sexually transmitted diseases, and other factors).
After two years, the researchers found that the cumulative regression rate of cervical lesions was 53% in the group of women randomized to use condoms but only 35% in the women who were not using condoms (regression was defined as two consecutive findings of no colposcopically-noted CIN). Women with CIN2 or higher-grade lesions or HPV infection showed no difference in regression rates by condom use.
Condom use also appeared to have an effect on how quickly the women were cleared of HPV. Twenty-three percent of women in the condom group had clearance of HPV after two years, compared with 4% in the group not using condoms, where HPV clearance was defined as two negative tests for HPV regardless of type.
However, in women who still had CIN lesions or HPV infection after six months, there was no difference in the regression rate of either the HPV infection or the CIN lesion between the condom and noncondom groups.
Similar results were found in the study of men and HPV. In that study, men with HPV-related penile lesions (all of whose partners also had CIN) were evaluated after regular condom use for at least three months (57 men) or no condom use (43 men). Men who were assigned to the condom group had a mean time to regression of 7.4 months for flat penile lesions, compared with 13.9 months in the noncondom group. Regression of papular lesions was not significantly different in either group, and condyloma acuminata did not occur frequently enough for analysis. There was a trend toward greater likelihood of HPV clearance in the condom group (27% after two years) than in the control group (7%), although the difference did not reach statistical significance.
In this study, too, among men who still had lesions after six months, regression rates were not affected by condom use.
In both studies, the researchers speculate that the use of c