When Diagnosed With Hpv-are You Guaranteed Genital Warts? • 11.30.09
No. It is possible to carry HPV and not have genital warts. Since it is a virus, your immune system can supress it to the point none happen. Nobody is certain what the incubation period of the virus is, so it’s impossible to say when exactly or from whom exactly you caught it. You can have one episode of warts, get them treated and removed, and never have any more show up. There are also several varients of HPV, and the sort that causes cervical problems in women is a different type than causes genital warts. Moreover, all warts are caused by a variation of HPV, it’s a big family. Each one has a particular part of the body they prefer, and they don’t tend to form warts in other spots. There is not a good test to detect HPV unless there is a spot to culture, though- there are DNA type blood tests,but those aren’t usually done. They also don’t know if you remain a carrier for life or not- so they recommend you take precautions as if you were, even if you don’t suffer warts at the time.
