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How did I contract this and is it what the doctors says?
About 6 months ago I started feeling a bump at the base of my penis and over a few months a couple more popped up. My girlfriend and I were both virgins before each other, keeping that in mind, I went to the doctor and he said it looked like GW to him but he found it unlikely so he decided to do a biopsy of one of the bumps. A week or so later he calls back and says it is a common wart? I was totally confused as to how this was possible? I know warts can come up on hands and feet but I thought it had to be a completely different situation for them to pop up in the genital area? Can anyone help explain this to me at all?
Common warts on the penis is unclear to me since this is a genital skin area and any wart there is usually a genital wart. Ask him for the strain number associated with the wart. If he insists it is not a HPV wart, then it isn't. You and your GF should consider getting the HPV vaccine if you are both under age 26. BTW, virgins have been diagnosed with HPV because oral sex spreads the virus too. As does frontage (rubbing of genitals).
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