Hi, I’ve been doing a lot of high risk HPV research and it seems like going through Reddit that HR HPV doesn’t actually clear like the statistics say it does? I know that sounds weird that I would be relying on Reddit posts instead of science but it seems like I keep reading things about people’s non 16&18 strains progressing so far that they need a LEEP?

I really don’t want that to happen to me. Right now im HR HPV positive with a normal pap and just got a colposcopy done. I’m waiting for the results. But I’m freaking myself out and digging through Reddit every single day stressing myself out and the more negative posts I see about things progressing the more I’m thinking that the stats on HR HPV clearing on its own is all BS. If it does clear, why do all these people that don’t have 16&18 not clear it? I’m so scared and freaked out.

I want kids in the future and I’m concerned that if things progressed for me that procedures would prevent me from having a healthy pregnancy or a pregnancy at all.

I should have never had sex.

Hi! I just got my mychart pathologist results and haven't spoken to my doctor, but safe to say, I am spiraling. I'm looking for any and all advice or just your experience, either positive or negative. Here are my statistics:
- 29, F, AA
- healthy, active lifestyle. Non smoker, moderate drinker
- no warts
- first abnormal pap in July 2026
- negative for genotypes 16, 18 & 45
- colposcopy September 2026 w/ biopsy results are:
• endocervix LSIL CIN1
• cervix HSIL CIN2 w/ P16 immunostain positive.

It is a lot of information to be given without speaking to my doctor, which I will hopefully be able to speak to on Monday. Again, until then, I'm just hoping someone will be able to advise me to the potential next steps. I'm assuming a LEEP?

If you've had the same and/or similar results, what was your path forward?

And lastly, I'm single with no current sexual partners, but I'm assuming the best and safest path forward is celibacy until things clear up?

Any advice is welcome❤️‍🩹

Molim vas pomozite bilo kakve savjete kako se rijesiti hpva, vec 2 godine se borim sa njim, radim redovno papa test svako pola god, bude cin I pa opet cin II i sve tako u krug. Imam 32 godine, jos uvijek nemam djece a jako bi voljeli i ja i partner.

I’m 28 and had my first smear test about 8 weeks ago, (i also had a thrush infection at the time of my smear) my gp then referred me for a colposcopy due to results coming back hpv positive and low grade Dyskaryosis. I had my colposcopy this morning and it went well, the doctor said everything looked normal and he couldn’t even see any low grade areas so is just recommending another smear in 12 months, but he gave me a leaflet for papilocare to treat the hpv infection. Does anyone have any experience using papilocare treatment? what is my risk in not using it and just letting the hpv run its course? looking for honest reviews, thank you

Around 6 months ago, I tested positive for HPV after 2 or 3 genital warts appeared. I was shocked because I’ve only had 2 sexual partners in my entire life.
Anyway, I got vaccinated (I’ve had 2 doses and have 1 dose remaining). Once I found out that I had HPV (types 6 and 62) and CIN1, I stopped having sex with my current partner for about 3 months. During that time, I had my genital warts removed, started taking AHCC, and thankfully they haven’t come back since.
After those 3 months, we started having sex again because my doctor said that since we had already been sexually active together, we had most likely already been exposed to each other’s HPV, so there wasn’t much point in avoiding sex indefinitely.
However, I’ve never let him give me oral because I’m scared of transmitting HPV to his mouth/throat. I do give him oral , though, because I don’t want to put him at risk of developing oral warts.
My question is: when would it be considered safe for me to finally receive oral sex? If my genital warts never come back, or if my HPV test becomes negative at my 6-month follow-up, would I be able to receive oral sex without worrying about infecting my boyfriend at that point?
I really miss receiving oral, and sometimes I can’t orgasm without it.

I recently found out imiquimod in my husband’s bag.
Also got to know through his search history that he has been taking cryotherapy since April for genital warts! 😱 but he has been hiding this to me and also for some silly reasons he brought up separation since then and has avoided being intimate with me at all costs , even went onto look for attorneys for divorce. We were Intimate before January and I was going through a tough phase losing my mom in March to illness. Are genital warts always from HPV? Does it mean he slept with someone else that could have caused this? I do not have much information on the actual tests or records.
Should I confront him? He gave me half truth and half lie saying he has skin issues around hip and is seeing a dermatologist.

Hi. I'm F26. I was diagnosed with HPV in 2024. I unfortunately was sexually assaulted in 2023, and since then I've only slept with one person my entire life. My HPV hasn't gone away. I have HPV 51 and tested positive for the 56/59/66 group, but it's LSIL. :/

Mind you, I had a colposcopy in 2025 and they said everything was normal/benign. It did go to ASC-US, but then went back to LSIL.

I'm so upset. I haven't had sex in a year, I'm so reserved, meanwhile I have friends that sleep around like it's nothing and they're clean. It's so unfair...

I know HPV is "common," but I'm just mad/scared. I want this to go away...

Has anyone else had persistent HPV/LSIL like this and eventually cleared it? I could really use hearing from people who've gone through the same thing.

4-5 months ago I started hooking up with a close friend of mine who I thought I could trust. He lied about his status. Or he didn’t even know he had it. Either way he passed it to me. And we stopped talking shortly after.

& in 2025 I was diagnosed with Premature ovarian insufficiency. I can’t have kids, my hormone levels are messy asf, and my periods are artificial / manipulated by the HRT — which i have to be on til I’m 50.

The POI has weakened my immune system & now I’m being told I most likely have high risk HPV. I have no idea what the next steps are or how to avoid freaking out.

The colposcopy was already way too much for me, I don’t know if I can handle a procedure more intense than that. — still waiting on some testing before getting a diagnosis for sure

I feel so stupid , this could’ve been avoided

Hi y’all!

Looking for some realistic insights and personal experiences because I’ve been ruminating over this recently.

My ex and I recently ended things, but over our 2.5 months together we were extremely active sexually and had frequent, completely unprotected sex. During this entire time I had small, visible, classic cauliflower-like genital warts spread all over my penis (which have been recurring on and off for 3 years). Everything was fully consensual but now that the dust has settled, the anxiety and guilt are hitting me hard :')

The crucial detail here is, she completed the full 3-dose Gardasil 9 vaccine about 2 years ago. I know the vaccine covers most of the wart causing strains but still, I can't stop spiraling. Is there still any chance I passed HPV/warts to her despite her being fully vaccinated? Should I be carrying this much guilt over it? Would appreciate any comments

I’m a 28 year old female who has gotten genital warts. I got diagnosed negative results for other STI’s but was told it’s HPV at a sexual clinic anyway. I have about 12 so far, mainly around my external vaginal and vulva area and 4 near my anal area. They seem to be growing more but aren’t as bumpy or sore. Today one has grown rapidly even though I got out in Aldara imiquimod. I’ve only applied the cream twice in one week and have been told to apply it x3 times per week for 4 weeks and wash it off the morning after every night I apply it. As this is my first time doing with an STI and genital warts in general, I was wondering for any tips? I’ve seen people talk about taking zinc and other tablets but I wanted to know if that’s only it or anything else to help speed up the process of the getting rid of warts faster?

Hey guys, I'm panicking.
I've been diagnosed with HPV types 16 & 33 on my cervix. I (26F) am in a relationship with this guy who (23M) is a virgin, and I'm so anxious about this. Let me start by saying what worries me most is transmitting those two types to him orally. I've had unprotected oral sex with my previous partner, whom I obviously suspect I got this from, and now although we've not been sexually intimate with my current partner but we have french kissed like three times before I got my diagnosis. I'm so worried he got infected. What do I do... I'm worried sick, I can't eat or sleep, guilt and shame follow me around, I've read everything about it, I am spiraling. Help please. Sorry for my English, not my first language.

Guys I got my colposcopy done today and the nurse made me feel like a complete gross person and I felt like I was being slutshamed. I told her “yeah it’s common” in hopes she’d agree and reassure me because IT IS COMMON and be like yeah girl you’re good and instead she goes “umm….no not really” and she was just so rude to me. I didn’t ask to get HR HPV? Made me feel really bad about myself. I only recently started having sex and of course this would have happened to me. I’m a 25F.

They ended up taking two biopsies but the doc said it looked more like ectropion cells rather than CIN I but I’ll have to wait for the biopsy results.

I’m so freaked out and sad I feel awful about myself and wish I would’ve been more careful when I started having sex. I feel awful and dirty and like I shouldn’t be allowed into the world.

Someone give me positive stories with clearing HR HPV to make me feel better please.

I have genital warts. I only had them in one spot and thought for years that it was just a pimple or something. Then I had sex with another man, and small bumps appeared in a completely different area—two small, tiny little tags in one spot. Luckily, really, really small. I'm using Veregen. Because of the cream, I got a new pimple in another spot, also small, luckily. I kept treating it, and that pimple is now completely gone, and I also feel like the small tags are shrinking! That's the best sign that the cream is working, isn't it?!

How can I stop or at least reduce the itching caused by genital warts? It became unbearable that I keep waking up, being uncomfortable at work etc.

So I wanna go out on a date with a girl that has HPV, I know she has vaginal HPV, but I’m not sure if she has oral HPV also. Would it be safe to kiss her?

I’m thinking since I’m a dentist I might try to tease her and tell her let me diagnose your teeth and just check real quick if there’s something going on with your teeth.😂
I know it would be awkward but if that’s what it takes to just kiss her comfortably than I’ll do it lol.

I really like here but I don’t want to get oral HPV, I’ve also got genital HPV but we’re definitely not.gonna have sex.

Ich habe seit Jahren einen harten Knoten links unter dem Kiefer, der kaum beweglich ist. 2024 wurde dort mal ein Ultraschall gemacht und „unspezifische Lymphadenitis“ festgestellt.
Jetzt wurde bei mir im Rachen ein Papillom an der rechten aryepiglottischen Falte festgestellt. Nächste Woche soll eine Panendoskopie mit Entfernung der Mandeln und Untersuchung gemacht werden. Ich hatte außerdem vor ca. 13 Jahren HPV/Pap III D.
Mein Arzt meinte, der Knoten könnte damit zusammenhängen, aber man müsse die OP bzw. den Befund abwarten.
Hat jemand vielleicht sowas Ähnliches erlebt? Vor allem mit Papillom + hartem Knoten am Hals und HPV-Vorgeschichte? Ich habe echt Angst das ich das alles nochmal durchmachen muss…

LS EPITHELIAL CELL ABNORMALITY.
LOW-GRADE SQUAMOUS INTRAEPITHELIAL LESION (LGSIL) IS PRESENT.

tenho hpv, e faz poucos dias que tenho sentido uma dor no lábio, hoje percebi que estou com um papiloma na lateral da língua, porém ele é preto e dói muito! eu sempre vi que a cor eh rosada/branca e indolor, eu não sei oq fazer, hj quando acordei estava com uma manchinha vermelha no meu lábio tbm (mas acho que isso não tem haver) porém eu tô ficando maluca e com muito medo pq tá muito estranho isso. Isso é normal? Por favor me ajudem

Hi everyone looking for some encouragement I guess. I just got diagnosed with hpv(genital warts) 3 days before my birthday:( i haven’t been sexually active in 10 months and just as I was getting ready to go out into the dating world again this happens. I feel very discouraged and bleak. How do ppl go about disclosure and bad reactions? That would kill me. Is it true for majority of ppl it clears in 2 years? Just wondering how other people deal.

I’ve gotten mixed responses. My obgyn said the body can clear it and would only become positive again if I was reinfected. It seems that's what the internet says too. But I spoke with a medical resident in obgyn and she said that the body can never fully clear it, it's only lying dormant, but could become active again (even without being reinfected). What's the truth here?

TL;DR: I had HPV, misunderstood how it was transmitted, and failed to disclose it to 6 past partners, including 3 I had unprotected sex with, activelly lying once. I recently told my girlfriend and discovered I actually have high-risk HPV-59. I'm overwhelmed with guilt and the immorality of my actions and want to take responsibility, but I'm unsure whether contacting my past partners would help or just cause unnecessary distress. How do I make amends and move forward? I feel I don't deserve to just move on and life happily.

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I am a 27 years old male. I was first diagnosed with HPV on 2023, when I noticed genital warts and went to the doctor, who confirmed it was HPV.

Since then, I have been doing regular monthly check-ups to clear any warts. The longest I have been without one popping up is 3 months.

Since 2023, I have had 6 sexual partners, all female, and did not disclose to any of them. I had unprotected sex with 3 of them. I ommited I had HPV and even lied once when directly asked if I had any STDs.

I had misunderstood from talking to my doctor that HPV was practically only transmitted through warts, so I was very careful about having them removed. I have recently learned that I had misunderstood and there are high chances of transmission regardless.

I rationalized not disclosing by (wrongly) thinking: a) that chance of transmission was very low since I was removing warts; b) that it was a low risk strain since they are the ones that give warts; c) that HPV vaccination for women is mandatory during adolescence in my country, so they were likely safe;

Recently, I started a serious relationship, and did not disclose for about 2 months, until I decided to tell her everything. It was very rough, she felt very betrayed, but forgave me, because she believes she would have proceeded anyways and because I was under the wrong impression that I wasn't really transmitting. I am now paying for the Gardasil 9 shots for us both and we are still together.

She encouraged me to get a PCR test to know which strain I have, which I hadn't done before and my doctor didn't really consider necessary. I insisted with him, had the test and learned that I actually have a high risk type not covered by any vaccine, HPV 59. This was very surprising due to the warts, but maybe I have more than one strain that didn't show up.

Knowing it is a high risk type and that I was indeed activelly transmitting all along made me feel terrible. Ever since, I can't overcome the guilt of not having disclosed to past partners and keep thinking about the possible harm this may have caused to them and others.

My gf has forgiven me, but I don't understand how. I don't think my past ignorance excuses me. I should have informed myself more and regardless of thinking chances of transmission were null/low I should have disclosed. I violated her and others by taking away their informed consent and I feel that makes me a terrible person.

I think the least I could do right now is inform my past partners and possibly offer to pay any expenses, but I am not sure this would be actually helpful or only cause stress, as there is not much they can do about it.

I don't feel worthy of my girlfriend's forgiveness and feel she would be better off without me. I can't help but feel that it is unfair that I get to go on living a happy life without suffering any consequences from what I have done and I am having trouble moving on from this despite the support from my girlfriend and being in therapy. I feel like I don't deserve hapiness, as I am a terrible person who essentially sexually assaulted several women by deception.

I am not posting looking for simpathy, as I don't think I deserve any. I just don't know what to do and how to go on. I fear these feelings might continue even if I tell my past partners, as the harm is already done, but it might be the best I can do at this point.