HPV Support Group

Hey Hanzay,

First off, I'm very sorry to hear that you have HPV. We've all been where you are at though, we have all felt that scared, angry, ashamed feeling that you are going through right now. Please know that you are so not alone and there is a great support system here at DS! There are many people here who are willing to listen and give great advice, people just like you who have somehow contracted this virus and are just coming to terms with it. I discovered my HPV over 2 years ago and only started my inner healing when I joined DS a few months ago.

Some things you should do right away. Go to a Sexual Health clinic, a walk in clinic. Don't listen to your doctor telling you to come back in a year! They may not have the proper experience to deal with this very new and very common virus. A sexual health clinic may be better able to diagnose you properly and get you on the road to recovery.

Next, you must take care of yourself. If you smoke you should try to quit as nicotine feeds Genital Warts and will make it that much harder for your immune system to beat it. You should try to eat healthy and stay fit, also a positive attitude is very important although understandably this may be hard for you at the start as the feelings you are experiencing may be quite the opposite.

Other than that, please come to any of us on DS when you need advice or just want to vent. There are many people on here that are willing to listen and help!

Take care for now,

Ryan

Ryan said lots of what i would have said ... but i will post something just too let you know your not alone !
im only 22 .. and i like you 3 months ago (so not too long ago) found out i had genital warts, the crying every morning in the shower or every night on your way to trying to sleep , the not eating, the not sleeping, its all stuff i went thru and most people probably did too ... the good news is ... this will ease ... but you have to let yourself have time to ride out all those emotions.
Doctors in general practice are often not the people you wanna see, i agree with ryan get yourself to a sexual health clinic, or a family planning type clinic where they have womens health nurses and doctors, they are the people who do this every day ... the first appointment is the worst once you make the step it will be easy .. and you will hopefully find that those types of clinics as they do this every day will be a wealth of accurate up to date information, and a great support, the internet is a scary place .. my advice dont go browsing yet ... do that after your appointments
yesterday ... i told the guy i was with i was chicken sh't and took me all this time to do it ... we had broken up prior to me realising ...but still spoke, i told him and you know what to my suprise he said
' thankyou for telling me, i havent noticed anything wrong with me, however now i will be on the look out for something, then he said well you cant be going through this alone now you have someone you can talk to and we will get through this' ... if you have known him all those years ... chances are this is not something that will ruin a stable friendship, give him the chance to be there for you i wish i told my guy earlier i could have done with someone who knew me so well earlier on