In response to your question-- yes, as Bonnie stated, HPV will always remain in your body even if it is dormant. When we say that HPV will go away on its own, what we mean is that any symptom of it will no longer be seen because it can go dormant for year or forever without you ever seeing any active symptoms ever again.
What we do want you to understand is that if you have been diagnosed with HPV and you are "cleared" after a follow up then you are okay but will need to use protection as you may still pass on genital warts without having any symptoms--this doesn't make you a dirty person. You need to continue going to your gynecologist every 6 months just like everybody else. If it helps you understand this better..when you get a cold, you go to your doctor and he says "you have a common cold-- you can take this to make it better and then it will go away" When he says it will go away, it really just goes dormant. That's why you can get a common cold once a year, twice a year, every four years, or once in a blue moon. HPV also goes dormant in your body but can manifest itself once again-- unless it is a different strain of HPV, this doesn't mean that you have it again, it is just active once more.
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Hi Anonymous,
In response to your question-- yes, as Bonnie stated, HPV will always remain in your body even if it is dormant. When we say that HPV will go away on its own, what we mean is that any symptom of it will no longer be seen because it can go dormant for year or forever without you ever seeing any active symptoms ever again.
What we do want you to understand is that if you have been diagnosed with HPV and you are "cleared" after a follow up then you are okay but will need to use protection as you may still pass on genital warts without having any symptoms--this doesn't make you a dirty person. You need to continue going to your gynecologist every 6 months just like everybody else. If it helps you understand this better..when you get a cold, you go to your doctor and he says "you have a common cold-- you can take this to make it better and then it will go away" When he says it will go away, it really just goes dormant. That's why you can get a common cold once a year, twice a year, every four years, or once in a blue moon. HPV also goes dormant in your body but can manifest itself once again-- unless it is a different strain of HPV, this doesn't mean that you have it again, it is just active once more.
I hope this clarifies things for you,
Rosa
August 11, 2011 - 10:02amThis Comment
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