It is unlikely that HPV (human papillomavirus – the virus that causes genital warts) will have any significant effect on your viral load or CD4 count. However, with a low CD4 count, the genital warts will be more difficult to treat, and have a higher chance of returning after treatment.<\/p>\n
Treatment of the warts can vary from case to case, and needs to be done by a doctor. In less severe cases, your doctor may decide to prescribe a cream that you will have to apply on your own at home. This is more rare though.<\/p>\n
Treatment options consist of: burning them, freezing them, acid (trichloroacetic acid), different ointments, ie podophyllin, podofilox or imiquimod, and surgical removal. In very severe cases, some doctors use alpha interferon.<\/p>\n
It usually takes several consecutive treatments to remove all the genital warts. Their removal does not mean a cure from HPV.<\/p>\n
As the procedure is unpleasant and sometimes painful, it is good to talk to your doctor and get some painkillers for after these procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Will having genital warts affect my viral load and CD4? Also if the condition is severe then how are they removed? How long does it take to be free from them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}