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HIV and HPV
#38503 - 08/20/02 09:55 AM
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Hello All,
I had a high risk exposure to a female sex worker, since this risk I have had many symptoms that have for the most part cleared. Before this encounter for oh see two years, i have had a plantar wart on the bottom of my foot. I just recently have gained health insurance again and decided to go in and have my plantar wart removed. The Dermotogist told me that the reason I had this persistant plantar wart was because my body was not making a immune response to the HPV virus. This scared the hell out of me. I have tested negative for HIV up until 8 months now on elisa tests at a state funded clinic in Minnesota. I have been able to recover from colds and flus in the past. Does that mean my body is able to make antibodies against these things, or for some reason not HPV, I am afraid that my body is not able to make antibodies against HIV thus testing negative. Any help would be appreciated
thanks stevey
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Anyone out there, please help
I am sad and lifeless
thanks stevey
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Xander
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The only applicable website I could locate for you is a technical paper on plantar's warts at http://www.alotek.com/hpv/plantar-warts.shtml. My reading of that article is that it is rather common to have the plantar's warts, and yet not have the antibodies against HPV-I that causes them. The website at http://www.podiatrychannel.com/plantarwarts/ seems to imply that it is, in fact, that lack of antibody response to HPV that causes people to get the warts in the first place.
Nonetheless, I don't think I would worry about this causing a lack of antibody response to hiv; if that were true about a relatively common condition like this, I imagine it would be quite well published.
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Plantar's warts and HIV?? I just don't see the connection. What about pimples? Come on perhaps your suffering from anxiety and obbsessive thinking rather than hiv.
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I appreciate your responses
thank you
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I wouldn't worry about it. If you tested negative at 8 months then you are fine. Secroversion usualy occurs within the first 3 months of an HIV infection. It is extreamly rare for it to occur after that point. So basically you are not developing the antibodies because there is nothing to fight off.
HPV is a reocurring thing. You may continue to experience outbreaks. Once you have HPV you are a carrier. This does not mean that you're going to die or anything so don't freak out. It just means that you have HPV and will continue to have it possibly throughout the rest of your life. You can go to clinics to recieve medecine to control the outbreaks, but it is still possible to spread the virus. Remember it is important to tell you partner/s that you do have HPV and always use a condom. DON'T WORRY THOUGH, YOU DO NOT HAVE HIV, CONGRATUALTIONS!!!!! hope this helps.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. This is strictly advice based on personal experiences.
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