If you haven't had an outbreak for a year, the virus has most probably cleared from your system and you don't even have it anymore.
Even if it hasn't - I'm in my 20's now, and several of my close friends have been diagnosed with HPV - one of them in particular asked several different doctors if she should disclose it to her partner (genital warts strain), as she's just started a new relationship. Each of those doctors told her that as she'd had sex with the guy already (even though she used condoms!), he already had it and that its so common and harmless there isn't any point. Most people with HPV have no idea and never get an outbreak, I think it's like 85 percent of people never even show symptoms.
I hope that makes you feel better! Anyone can get HPV, it's not protected by condoms and you shouldn't feel like you have AIDS or something that you gotta fess up to. The close friend I mentioned was horribly depressed following her diagnosis (I advised her to tell her boyfriend for NO OTHER REASON than to get the emotional support from him) and it just makes me sick that things like this are so stigmatised that someone as awesome as her should have been nearly suicidal over it. She's only had sex with two guys in her life!
I do hope that one day people will feel comfortable talking about these things just so that the people suffering don't live in shame. I mean, if all 70% of the the population was outspoken about it, who'd even need to be embarrassed?
IIN to not tell partner if you have HPV (controlled) but use condoms?
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If you haven't had an outbreak for a year, the virus has most probably cleared from your system and you don't even have it anymore.
Even if it hasn't - I'm in my 20's now, and several of my close friends have been diagnosed with HPV - one of them in particular asked several different doctors if she should disclose it to her partner (genital warts strain), as she's just started a new relationship. Each of those doctors told her that as she'd had sex with the guy already (even though she used condoms!), he already had it and that its so common and harmless there isn't any point. Most people with HPV have no idea and never get an outbreak, I think it's like 85 percent of people never even show symptoms.
I hope that makes you feel better! Anyone can get HPV, it's not protected by condoms and you shouldn't feel like you have AIDS or something that you gotta fess up to. The close friend I mentioned was horribly depressed following her diagnosis (I advised her to tell her boyfriend for NO OTHER REASON than to get the emotional support from him) and it just makes me sick that things like this are so stigmatised that someone as awesome as her should have been nearly suicidal over it. She's only had sex with two guys in her life!
I do hope that one day people will feel comfortable talking about these things just so that the people suffering don't live in shame. I mean, if all 70% of the the population was outspoken about it, who'd even need to be embarrassed?