Abnormal pap

[aialik]

I recently had a pap test and it came back positive for both low grade lesion (LGSIL) for which I have to have a colposcopy done, and high risk HPV. Just wondering if HPV is contracted solely through sexual contact with an infected partner or if it's something that can develop naturally? I know there are different types of HPV. Are they all considered an STD? Thanks.

[2little]

i didn't know the answer to this so i searched the world wide web.
I took a human sexuallity class earlier in the year of 2009 and this website helps with alot of unanswered questions.

here is the link.

Human Papilloma virus (HPV) | What Are They? | Sexually Transmitted Infections | Teens | sexualityandu.ca - Your Link to Sexual Well-Being

hope this help.

and for the record, the local health unit uses this site to help teens understand sex topics so it is real and ligit. not just some random site

[Brandye]

That is, indeed, an excellent site. Thanks, Little.

There are over 100 different HPV's. We have no idea what some of them do, if anything. There are four types associated, statistically, with cervical cancer. Whilst the most common form of transmission is sexual for many of them, they can be passed on through any skin to skin contact with an open lesion.

When HPV are contracted early in life, they are usually controlled by the youthful immune system and disappear from any clinical state within a year or so. As we age, our immune systems become weaker and the HPV is not fought off. The importance of the Gardasil series of inoculations is that they produce anti-bodies against those HPV that cause cervical cancer. These are recommended at a young age because so many women are exposed at first, or early, sexual contact - vaginal or oral.

By the age of fifty, well over half osf us have been exposed and are possible carriers.