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Swazzle
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HPV
A few of us were chatting about HPV & I was surprised at how many of us actually have it. So I wanted to start a poll to see how common it really is!
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Re: HPV
CN: I probably had it 16 years ago but shed it.
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I was also too old for Gardisil - my insurance only paid for it before 25, and I would have turned 26 after the first shot.
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[QUOTE]I was also too old for Gardisil - my insurance only paid for it before 25, and I would have turned 26 after the first shot.
Posted by BriSox81[/QUOTE]
My insurance paid as long as I received the first shot before I turned 27. I've received two of the three and will have the last like a month after I turn 27.
No, I've never had it, nor have I ever had an abnormal Pap.
But since we're on the topic.... If you stay with the same partner, is the need still high for you to get the shot? How long can the virus lay dormant in your system? It has been over 5 years since FI and I have had sex with anyone other than each other, and I'd heard that you can be infected and not even know it... but if you've been tested would it show up even if it was dormant? (Sorry, I am not very health-savvy)
I have been with FI for 5 years and didn't have an abnormal pap until 2 years ago.
[QUOTE]No, I've never had it, nor have I ever had an abnormal Pap. But since we're on the topic.... If you stay with the same partner, is the need still high for you to get the shot? How long can the virus lay dormant in your system? It has been over 5 years since FI and I have had sex with anyone other than each other, and I'd heard that you can be infected and not even know it... but if you've been tested would it show up even if it was dormant? (Sorry, I am not very health-savvy)
Posted by LilTexasGal[/QUOTE]
My understanding is that if you did get it from someone else it could stay dormant and come out at any time so getting the vaccine isn't going to prevent that since it's already in your system. Getting the vaccine would prevent a new strain that you haven't come in contact with yet- so if you stayed with the same person and don't get the vaccine it's fine.
[QUOTE]No, I've never had it, nor have I ever had an abnormal Pap. But since we're on the topic.... If you stay with the same partner, is the need still high for you to get the shot? How long can the virus lay dormant in your system? It has been over 5 years since FI and I have had sex with anyone other than each other, and I'd heard that you can be infected and not even know it... but if you've been tested would it show up even if it was dormant? (Sorry, I am not very health-savvy)
Posted by LilTexasGal[/QUOTE]
When I asked a sex-ed nurse this question she said that there's no time limit on how long the virus can stay dormant. She said that the longest she had personally seen was the virus staying dormant for roughly 15 years.