I think I might be an asymptomatic STD carrier
I've been dating my boyfriend for a year, and I didn't have sex with anyone for about four months before dating him. A few months ago, he found out he had molluscum contagiosum, and upon getting a description from both him and the internet I didn't think it was something i had. I even went to a gyno, and she couldn't find anything that suggested I had it. My boyfriend got it treated and then we were apart for a few months, but now that we're together again he thinks he just got it again. He showed me, and i've never gotten anything like it. If I've had the stupid virus all along, it's been almost a year and a half, and it seems like something I would definitely notice, it's not like my ladyplaces and i are strangers >_< So I guess my question is, does it sound like i'm most likely an asymptomatic carrier of the disease-- And if so, is there anything I can do about it or am I going to be passing it along for the rest of my life? It's something that when treated will go away, sometimes even on its own... But if whatever guy I'm dating is exposed to it regularly, they'd be pretty much stuck with it unless we used condoms every single time, and that's no fun.
Even if the Dr says you don't got it, I think it would be wise that the both of you get treated. It's kind of like how a yeast infection can be passed back and forth between male and female at times without either of them knowing.
Maybe see if the both of you can get treated and maybe that will put an end to it again?
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Whoever said anything was possible obviously never tried slamming a revolving door.
Well the jist of this disease is that it makes bumps, and it's treated by knocking out the bump. If a bump can't be found, i can't get treated. Unless there's a sort of pill I could take to get rid of it since I have no symptoms, but I don't think there is >_<;
Ahhh - well that makes things a bit more difficult. You've never had any of the same symptoms as your boyfriend?
Friendship Prayer
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the crotch of the person who screws up your day and may their arms be too short to scratch.
Amen
Whoever said anything was possible obviously never tried slamming a revolving door.
This is also known as MC and is not necessarily an STD, though it can be passed through sexual contact. It is a virus similar to warts that can happen to anyone including children and young adults but it spreads quickly and effectively if contact is made with the lesion. Most commonly the lesions appear as a few red dots a few days after it is contracted. They are not painful but will leave a mark if continually scratched and picked at. Keep in mind that anything from skin to skin contact to using the same bath towel can be a transfer mechanism so there is a chance you got the virus. Since you have searched this already you will know that it is going to look like little warts or lined up lesions maybe a few millimeters in length. So yes you should visibly see signs of it if you in fact contracted it. Doctors diagnose this one by biopsy as well as observation. Common wart removal methods are done to rid of the virus however again if they are scratched and therefore spread more they will take much longer to get rid of. Without some type of removal method, prescription or not, the virus can and usually does go away on its own but because it is a virus it means it will take months if not a year or more to completely disappear.
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Do you know a lot about the disease? As I said in my post, I haven't noticed any warts, yet my boyfriend has gotten it twice after being with me. Is it possible for me to have this virus without showing symptoms, and if so how can I get rid of it so I don't keep affecting my partner? Another option is that I might have it internally, perhaps, but again-- I haven't noticed anything. It's been at least a year and a half since I contracted it, and I feel like I would have noticed SOMETHING. My boyfriend just got his frozen off the first time and he was fine, I wish I knew where the wart was so I could just take care of it and have it be done with. >_<;
This is an external virus so it will only be seen on your skin as the pimple/wart like lesions. Just because he has it though does not 100% mean you do. They are going to be rather hard to miss so yes you are right, if you had it you would have seen it already unless it is really hidden in an awkward spot on your body. Most of the time it is going to present in the armpit, face, chest, neck, and sometimes the genitals...basically wherever the lesion made contact. The way to get rid of them is through freezing, de-coring, surgical scraping, and some topical wart prescriptions. Or if you have a good immune system (not sick) you can just let time deal with it and eventually it will be gone. This is not a virus that will kill you or anything but if you are concerned about spreading it and lets say you found a lesion on your hand then your best bet would be to keep it covered with a band-aid (but don't go sticking them on your genitals lol) or something and then get it treated.
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So how likely would it be to be an asymptomatic carrier? It's a relief that it is only external, but equally as stressful that I don't know how to take care of it. I'm quite sure that I would have it also, otherwise the timing would be too much of a coincidence. I would imagine it would be in the area of my genitals, since that's where my boyfriend keeps getting his, but all I ever see in that area are just normal bumps that come and go in a few days, the type I got even since before I started having sex. My boyfriend was a virgin before we started dating, and I'm quite sure he's been faithful so while other ladies could have been an explanation for this I'm pretty sure it isn't the case. But yeah if I knew where it was I would just try to let it go away on its own and see if it faded, but I can't even do that. If I do have something that I'm just not noticing, obviously it isn't bothering me too much... But I feel like a horrible pain to my boyfriend because i know it was painful to get it removed the first time, that he plans on getting it removed again, and that even though it's a harmless virus he would do what he could to keep getting it removed. /sigh
I am not sure you would be asymptomatic since the virus presents on the skin as a lesion. Though if you did have it, and it was in an awkward spot that you cannot really see, then it is quite possible that is has come and gone due to the virus not being painful (so you cannot bump it and suddenly be like oh jeez what is that pain?) and the fact that the immune system can rid of it on its own. Just remember that it is nothing super serious, they are more of a visual annoyance which is why they are advised to be taken care of by doctors.
But the removal does hurt because you need to get right down to the root of the wart-like lesion and that can be deep in the skin. I had a planters wart removed from my hand a few years back. The freezing hurt like crazy but it was only for a few seconds, and the cream used to dry it out after helped a ton.
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Hmm okay that's something I'll look around for information on, whether or not you can just kind of keep the virus with you without presenting a bump. I wouldn't have doubted the whole come-and-go thing, but it was probably about five or so months between the two times my boyfriend has found it and he only gets it when he's with me and considering I still have never noticed it... Idk everything just points to it being in my system somehow without giving me any symptoms. But thank you for your help, it was very useful in helping me to understand how it presents itself and to rule out some possibilities of what might be going on ^_^
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