HPV advice? I don't understand fully what I've read on it?

Treatments for genital warts or abnormal cell changes the virus causes are to remove the visible signs of genital warts or the abnormal cell changes the virus has caused of the cervix. In most the virus will regress in a year or two. This means that in 2 years there is usually no signs of the virus and the cell changes that caused an HPV test to show positive now are not showing the virus. An HPV test screens for the DNA viral load when the virus has regressed then the virus may only show one cell. There is no treatment for the virus.

In most men and women the virus is maintained by the innate immune system but it is also known that the immune system can weaken and a virus that has been suppressed for years can show again.

You will be less contagious as time goes on maybe not contagious at all but we can never guarantee that we will never share our virus with a new sex partner.

Men do not have a cervix and yes abnormal cells that have persisted or progressed over years can cause cervical cancer. Men do have problems with the virus science is now showing men seems to develop more oral cancers due to genital HPV types. The information on oral cancer due to genital HPV types is still in its infancy in time we may see that women are equally affected by oral cancers due to genital HPV types as men.

You will not have problems due to the virus for life. Once we acquire an HPV type we do not get that same type again, the HPV type we acquired years before can re-occur and we can acquire new HPV types from a new sex partner. Many men and women carry more than one HPV type.

HPV is a common STI. Genital HPV infections may be impossible to avoid if we engage in sex with one person who has engaged in sex. Condoms provide 70% preventions. The HPV vaccine is an important first step in preventing 4 genital HPV types. Routine Pap tests allows our doctor to see cell changes of the cervix early, monitor these cell changes and if they progress recommend a treatment to remove the cell changes can prevent most cervical cancers.

The inability to be 100% sure that an individual with a history of an HPV infection is no longer contagious should encourage honesty whenever a new relationship begins. This should be balanced with the fact that most people are exposed to this virus during their life, and that, for most, this virus does not usually cause great harm.

Most HPV lesions eventually resolve due to a host immune response to the virus. This is particularly true for genital warts and CIN1 because neither are truly precancer.

http://www.asccp.org/PracticeManagement/HPV/Natura...

Available therapies for genital warts likely reduce, but probably do not eradicate, HPV infectivity. Whether the reduction in HPV viral DNA resulting from treatment reduces future transmission remains unclear.

http://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment/2010/genital-wart...