Awareness

Hi Micky.

That was a really interesting read.  I've seen the HPV acronym many times on the forum but never knew a great deal about it.  

Thanks to you, I'm much more clued up and it's always good to know about these things.

Gill xx 

Hi Micky,just read that article as Gill did.I have to say it scares me thinking that I potentially could be responsible for my husbands cancer. If I read it right, I could be a career of that virus and passed it on to him? 

MRSMM said:

I potentially could be responsible for my husbands cancer

No....Put that thought out of your mind. We ALL get HPV at some time. Couples married fifty years and faithful can pass it between them countless times. It takes up to two years (often less) for the virus to be eliminated. SOME, and I stress the some, people don't seem to shake the virus off and it remains hidden in epithelial cells for years. Only SOME of that hidden virus causes cancer....so it's a lottery and nobody is to blame.

As Dani has said it's just bad luck, I have been married for over 30 years and we have had a loving life, enjoyed every minute of it, would not change a thing, the virus is in most of us.  Being aware of HPV dangers and the vaccination programme will help current and future generations.

Hi like  Dani says we all get hpv at one time if another. John snd j had ben  married 40 years and I had it. We had probably been playing pass the parcel so to speak with it. Then it finally decided it liked me and  stuck with me then eventually I was one of the tiny percentage who didn’t get rid of it and even slimmer percentage turned into cancer. So please don’t beat yourself up about it. Our bodies can harbour it further years it’s not worth wasting time thinking about it. 
The one thing we can do is spread the word about the HPV vaccine so if anyone’s got children at high school age our grandchildren our friends have  children or  grandchildren there is a vaccine out there and preventing cancer certainly beats curing cancer as we all know

the uk rates for hpv vaccine uptake are dropping to around 50% for both girls and boys  we need to get this up.we were on target for eradicating hpv cervical in 2040 prior to Covid but now there’s an apathy around vaccines  sorry for the rant passionate as you  can see . if the vaccine had been around when I was younger, it could well have prevented me having to go through the brutal treatment that we’ve all been through

hugs Hazel 

Thanks Dani, that puts my mind at ease a little,still a scary thought so.x