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My boyfriend has genital warts, I had the Gardasil shots, but am I at risk?
I had all three Gardasil shots, and finished with them about a year before I became sexually active. My boyfriend and I use birth control pills but not condoms.
In the last few months, he's developed warts on his pelvic area, just above his penis and just a few on his penis itself. He had them once before, but it was over 6 years ago, and they went away on their own. Yes, they were looked at by a doctor then and they told him it was a form of genital warts.
I have no symptoms of genital warts at this point but I'm worried. I can't get in to see my gynecologist for 2 months. Even with the Gardasil, am I at a high risk for contracting some form of HPV?
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Well, In my personal opinion and been through the same thing as you. Genital warts can be easily spread, they are a common virus. You can get them through skin to skin contact, even if you have all the injections and your boyfriend where's a condom. I suggest that you get your boyfriend to get them treated instead of waiting for them to go by themselves, he has numerous of options to get rid of them, he can have them frozen, burnt or cream. My ex partner had to have all 3 and the most comfortable is the cream obviously, but takes a lot longer to get rid of them, however the most painful is getting it burnt, however gets rid of them straight away. I may warn you that this is a virus and your partner will carry the virus for 2 and a half years after getting rid of them, if he gets them again in that 2 and a half years then the virus will start again for another 2 and a half years. If you have had sex with him whilst he has had the genital warts then you will have the virus, however, the warts may not appear on you and therefore cannot be treated, but you will carry the virus for 2 and a half years, if you have any further questions on this please let me know as I am very educated on this topic.
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Well, on their site it says that the shot protects against 2 types of HPV that cause 70% of cervical cancers and against 2 types of HPV that cause 90% of genital warts cases. It sounds to me like that would leave you with a 10% chance of getting it from him. Probably not exactly 10%, but around there. You should get into a gynecologist a.s.a.p. to get tested. I know a lot of times it doesn't have any symptoms for a while. Even if you can't get into your gynecologist, you need to go to some gynecologist so they can get you on medicine if it does turn out that you have it.
Here is Gardasil's site about the shot and Genital Warts:
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-Darby
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