Is it possible to have more than one type of HPV at once?

Question

I realize these are questions to be asked of a health professional (and I will ask next month when I go) but I want to see if anyone else has any personal or professional experience or knowledge on the subject.

I'm just wondering if it's possible for someone to have more than one type of HPV at once? My boyfriend has one of the strains that causes warts. Although I have no symptoms, I feel it's safe to assume I have HPV as well. I heard that it's a different type of HPV that causes cervical cancer than the type that causes warts. I have not had the Gardasil vaccine, but I wonder if it would be worth it in the event that it may protect me from other strains of HPV that I may not have yet. We were having condomless s*x long before we even discovered he had HPV, so even if he DID have more than one type, should I assume that I also have each of those types? Would getting vaccinated be pretty useless by now? (I am assuming my current man will be the last man I ever sleep with. In the event that changes, I would reconsider being vaccinated.)

Answer 1

You can have more than one at once. There are over 100 strains and most of them aren't even genital. The one that can rarely cause cancer is not the same as warts.

Pretty much every sexually active woman is going to get some form of HPV at least once and there is no test for men. You probably have everything your partners have had.

The good news, is most strains are harmless and all of them are highly likely to go away within two years. In fact, 90% will go away within two years.

The Gardasil vaccine is a scam based on scare tactics. The truth is, out over 100 strains, hardly any have the potential to cause cancer and they almost always go away. If they don't go away, the chances of developing into pre-cancerous cells are very slim. Even then, if that does happen, yearly pap smears can eliminate almost every potential case of cervical cancer by catching unusual cells before they become cancerous. The number of women who actually develop cancer and die from it it is very, very tiny. Less than a tiny fraction of 1% will actually die from cervical cancer. And, even that number would be much lower if every woman had a yearly pap smear to catch warning signs early.

So really, if you want to fund some rich guy who has stock in pharmaceuticals, I guess you can waste your money if you want, but given the facts and statistics, it isn't necessary.  

Answer 2

Yes many of us with the virus carry more than one HPV type.  I will enclose of the info on this.  

It is pretty safe to assume that you and your boyfriend share the same HPV type.  They are over 30 genital HPV types.  These 30+ genital HPV types are divided into two different categories high risk HPV types…those HPV types found in cancer… and low risk HPV types those rarely seen in cancer.  

  

Visible genital warts are most often low risk HPV types either 6 or 11.  But we can carry any HPV type with our signs.  I think some of the info I have read says only one in 100 people with a low risk HPV will actually show a wart.  A new study reports that 20 to 50% of the population that show a genital HPV type may also carry a co-infection with a high risk HPV type.

The Gardasil vaccine only prevents two low risk HPV types 6 and 11 and two high risk HPV types 16 and 18.  The vaccine cannot treat or prevent HPV types that you already have.  The vaccine does not prevent all genital HPV types.  

www.gardasil.com

Our HPV test does not tell us what specific high risk genital HPV type we carry.  The FDA approved HPV test does not screen for low risk HPV types.   The HPV test is a screening method for the cervix only.  

www.thehpvtest.com

You may not have acquired all 4 HPV types the vaccine prevents.  The vaccine does not prevent all genital HPV types…not all HPV types that are found in cancaer.  I am also inclosing an article on the cost effectiveness of the vaccine.

Most people do build immuity to thier shared HPV types...that said they are still 3,700 death each year due to cervical cancer.  44,000 hysterectomies to removed the cervix are performed each year to remove Cancer in situ.  

Do a little bit of reading..and you decide what is best for you.  

I wish well.  

• Plummer M,

• Schiffman M,

• Castle PE,

• Maucort-Boulch D,

• Wheeler CM;

• ALTS (Atypical Squamous Cells of Undetermined Significance/Low-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions Triage Study) Group.

International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, 69372, France. [e-mail].

Background. Cervical cancer is caused by persistent infection with human papillomavirus (HPV). Most infections and associated lesions clear spontaneously. It is important to define the determinants and timing of clearance, so that viral persistence can be recognized and managed.Methods. We investigated HPV natural history among 4504 subjects from ALTS (Atypical Squamous Cells of Undetermined Significance/Low-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions Triage Study). A discrete-time Markov model was used to simultaneously describe the prevalence, incidence, and persistence of type-specific HPV infection over 24 months in women with equivocal or mildly abnormal cytological results. Interactions between multiple HPV types infecting the same woman were examined for incidence of new infection (after an HPV-16 infection) and persistence of a current infection within groups defined by phylogenetic relatedness or by carcinogenicity.Results. Ninety-one percent (95% credible interval [CI], 90%-92%) of prevalent HPV infections at enrollment cleared within 24 months. The probability that an infection would persist for a further 6 months increased with the duration of infection, from 37% (95% CI, 35%-39%) for a newly observed infection to 65% (95% CI, 61%-70%) for an infection that had already persisted for >/=18 months. No consistent evidence of interactions was found between multiple HPV types regarding the incidence of new infection after an HPV-16 infection or regarding persistence of current HPV infection.Conclusion. Although virtually all HPV infections clear within 2 years, the remaining infections have a high potential for persistence and, by implication, progression to precancer and cancer. Once biological and behavioral determinants are controlled for, HPV infections with different types seem to be independent of each other.

Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Biomedical Institute.

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the most prevalent sexually-transmitted virus worldwide. It is known to be the etiological agent of cervical cancer and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). Consequently, there is strong motivation to evaluate HPV testing in cervical cancer screening. Recently developed, the second generation of the hybrid capture test (HCA II) is a non-radioactive, relatively rapid, hybridization assay, designed to detect 18 HPV types divided into high and low-risk groups. We evaluated 7,314 patients (5,833 women and 1,481 men) for HPV infection by HCA II. Among them, 3,008 (41.1%) presented HPV infection: 430 (14.2%) had HPV DNA of low risk for cancer, 1,631 (54.2%) had high risk HPV types and 947 (31.5%) had both types. The prevalence in females was 44.9%. The prevalence of HPV DNA in the group for which cytological results were available was slightly higher: 55.3% (1007/1824). Significant differences were detected i

Answer 3

I have 2+ different kinds. The one that causes warts and the ones that are high risks of cancer! You can have MANNNNY different kinds. Good Luck, Take Care!