HPV testing for me (a man)

[Synpax]

So I wnet to my doc today to get an HPV test for men. I have read of guys having the test on this message board.

I ask because the last girl had the cirvical cancer causing kind and wanted to verify that I did, indeed, pick it up, meaning I could also transmit it.

Apprently the doc said I didn't need to test for it but I explained that I wanted to know - for sure - if I risked infecting another girl.

I have also since learned there is no FDA approved test for men.

But the doc, who had never done one before, said the lab could do a culture on an anal 'culture'?? sample. So she scraped out of me a little and I am waiting for the 'high risk' test.

All she says I will find out is if I have HPV anti-bodies and not tell me if I have it or not - not what kind I have.

Anyone want to comment or add any info to this?

 

[heatherrae]

I would think that most people would test positive for the antibodies. I think almost everyone who is sexually active has been exposed. This is just what I have heard.

 

[CrazyK]

I would think that most people would test positive for the antibodies. I think almost everyone who is sexually active has been exposed. This is just what I have heard.

Why would everyone be exposed?

 

[Synpax]

There are different kinds of STD version HPV. Some cause warts.

Two or three strands out of the 30 cause cervical cancer in women, but cause nothing in men.

I would like to know for sure if I got it because if I did have it, I would need to let any other woman know I had that kind. Hopefully she is under 27 and can still get the vaccine.

And if I do NOT have any HPV, then there is no need to trouble any future women.

 

[win19]

Most sexually active people have HPV. And mostly the cases resolve themselves. The more a person has sex with multiple partners then the higher the likelihood of developing a HPV-related cancer later in life (lifetime number of partners has also been found to be the largest risk factor for oncogenic HPV types in some studies). 32 different types of HPVs was the figure around the mid-1980s. There are today over 100 known strains of HPV. Though only a subset of those some 100 have been identified as having the potential to cause cancer. Some strains of HPV are nastier or more or less specific than other risky ones, some have more or less correlations to certain cancers (oral, anal, cervical, penile). For example, nasty types are HPV-16 and HPV-18 which are well-known to yield malignant cancers. HPV-16 and 18 also have a very significant role in the etiology of penile cancer (this cancer is however extremely rare!). HPV that cause cervical cancer in women vary, but very prevalent ones are HPV-16, 18, though Japanese scientists have also found a significant role for HPV-58 in inducing HPV cervical carcinogenesis, as well as other types. HPV cervical cancers is a very serious problem in developing countries such as India (cervical cancer is actually the most common cancer in Indian women, whereas worldwide number one cancer in women is that of the breast, then about followed by the cervix).

 

[Synpax]

ok, nice cut and paste.

Any guys here ever been tested?

 

[win19]

ok, nice cut and paste.

Any guys here ever been tested?

Yeah. Good stuff .

 

[Tweakle]

I didn't think you could actually be tested unless you had a chunk of infected tissue to biposy. That and herp can only be really tested for if there are visual symptoms afaik

It's a womans responsibility to get vaccinated if that option is availible, you have a cervix and you have sex then it's a no-brainer... condoms don't prevent HPV spreading and I think something like 80% of people carry at least one strain.

gotta love the nasty things that hitch-hike on our pee-pees

 

[SPOONY LUV]

i thought i read somewhere that 20millon people a year are getting some sort of HPV...Very Very common for everyone....

Consider this---You could bang a virgin and if she just grinded(naked of course) with a guy in the past even without intercourse...You could catch HPV from her...HPV is becoming something like the common cold....Most guys will never get symtoms and never know they have it....Its more dangerous for women....Hence is why they have to have papsmears(sp)...

 

[Synpax]

Not really into banging sluts and leaving them with what they got, so the 'its a chick's responsibility thing' is really for you pigs to sleep better at night. Not applicable here.

I just wanted to know because if I were with another girl, seriously, and slept with her, knowing I have the high risk kind of HPV (there are only two such strains out of 100 or so), we should talk about it first.

Cervical cancer is 100% treatable, but only if you get regular papsmeers. The least you can do is give the girl the heads-up that it is a possibility, so she will get tested or get said papsmeers.

BTW - the vaccine is only for girls 26 or under.