Is there any way to determine how long you've had genital warts and/or the disease that causes it?

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Oh geez, it's not herpes, it called HPV. HPV (Human papillomavirus) is known to cause genital warts, and hand and feet warts. It can also cause cervical cancer, anal cancer, penile, and head and neck cancer. There are over 100 different kinds of HPV. There is no way to tell how long you have had the virus because the symptoms from it can take months and even years sometimes to show up. Until the symptoms show up (like warts), most people don't know they have the virus. Once you have HPV you will have it for life. It is a virus and there is no cure for it. Some people though can actually get rid of the virus (this is pretty rare though).

I have had HPV for over 5 years. The first year I developed cervical cancer and about 7 months ago I developed genital warts. It took 4 1/2 years for the warts to show up!

Check out this site for some more information:
http://std-gov.org/stds/hpv_warts.htm

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they probably would have to do a pap-smear or a colposcopy-(a small sample of the tissue of your cervix is taken and they do a biopsy on it).

uh, the disease that causes it is HPV (eighth-grade health class material)...and if you want to know other stuff about it, be smart and go to a doctor

Herpes: no way exists to medically determine how long has it and NO cure, as we know, exists. I sound rather cautious on the latter fact because Herpes CAN be treated; it's outbreaks can be less painful and last for far shorter time. So you can imagine my suspicion why doctors claim there's yet NO cure for Herpes.

People diagnosed with Herpes must grow up fast and come to terms with their condition. It's awful hard to enter into a wonderful relationship and later tell someone you have Herpes, but it's only the right thing to do.

Psst: Herpes spreads far faster than other STD's and AIDS.

No there is no scientific way to tell how long you've had HPV. You need to go back and talk to all your partners.

Genital warts are caused by the Human Papilloma Virus, or HPV. There is no way to determine how long you have had the virus unless you know specifically when you were exposed to it....which is unlikely since your partner may have not been aware he had it.

HPV is a very common virus and there are several strains. Only a few cause cancer. A person may live with HPV and not think anything of it, particularly since the warts are so easily treated. Years later, an abnormal pap smear is their first hint of the presence of the virus.

As someone who has survived cervical cancer, I strongly urge you to consult your doctor. Don't delay. Cervical cancer is easily cured in its earliest stages.

I also strongly recommend visiting the website below. Merck has done more to educate women about this life-threatening STD in just a few months than the public health community has done in years. There's good information there. I just wish someone had told me I could get cancer from a sexually transmitted disease twenty years ago.

Best wishes, and protect your health vigilantly.

I HAD A FRIEND WHO HAD THOSE AND HAD THEM BURNT AWAY SO GO DO IT
SHE SCRATCHED A WART ON HER KNEE TOUCHED THERE AND IT SPREAD OKAY YOU GO SEEK MEDICAL ADVICE TELL THEM TO BURN THEM OUT-THEY WILL

Genital warts are caused by a wart virus. There are over 70 different types of wart virus affecting various parts of the body.

Wart virus is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections and many people carry the virus without knowing it.
Genital warts are spread by direct contact with another person's skin in the area where the wart virus is. The virus is usually transmitted by sexual contact and may appear three weeks to 12 months after sexual contact with an infected person, or they may never appear. It is also thought that the subclinical infection is spread this way,

I don't think that there is a way to tell how long you have had it for. Go to your doctor and ask for the HPV vaccine. Certain types of genital warts cause cervical cancer. This eleminates those kinds. There is also a cream that can take care of the rest.

No, there isn't, unless you know for sure who you got it from.

No there is no way to tall how long you havehad it.but keep doing you check ups as ordered byt he doctor. it can turn into cervical cancer.

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