sexually active in between Gardasil shots ? Posted: 06-18-08 10:38am
My girlfriend is on the Gardasil shot and
her mother says that the Doctor said
having sex between shots is dangerous.
That each time you have sex, your chance
to get Cervical cancer increases. Another
friend of mine said that her doctor
prescribed her birth control for sex when
she started getting her shots. I can't
find anything about this on the Gardasil
website. Does anyone have any experience
with this? Or any doctors that can tell me
what's going on? I'm confused, and
concerned for my girlfriend, and would
like to find out if her mom's just trying
to scare her out of having sex or what. My
girlfriend is 17, a month from 18, by the
way.
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Mabel
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Posted: 06-18-08 14:56pm
Sounds like her mom is trying to scare
her. The shots will prevent certain causes
of HPV that may cause cervical cancer.
You can still get cervical cancer without
having HPV, but the percentage of non-HPV
cancer is lower than cervical cancer
caused by HPV.
Each time you have sex your risk of
cervical cancer does not increase. If you
have already had unprotected sex with your
girlfriend and either one of you had high
risk HPV, you have passed it to each
other. Once you get HPV, no shot in the
world is going to prevent it. However,
having HPV does not automatically mean
you'll get cervical cancer either.
Wear condoms if you are concerned. They
protect against STDs and pregnancy. Its
the best of both worlds!
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Georgia59
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Posted: 06-18-08 15:32pm
Each time you have sex (with a different
partner), your risk of cervical cancer
will increase. However, in this case it
sounds like her mom just doesn't want her
having sex, which is understandable.
My guess is that your friend got
prescribed birth control just because the
doctor knew she was sexually active and
figured it was a good time to get on birth
control.
If you are sexually active, your
girlfriend should probably be on birth
control anyway. But birth control doesn't
protect against HPV at all.
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mstrombe
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Posted: 11-19-08 10:29am
Having sex in between Gardasil shots will
not increase her risk of getting HPV any
more than it would have been otherwise.
The two are not related; it sounds like
her mom is a *.
