Hello,

Welcome to our Forum and thanks for your question.  I agree with your doctor that this is not something to worry about.  There are several reasons that I say this.,  First, as you doctor has told you, most STIs are not transmitted following a single sexual exposure and, unlike some of the bacterial STIs which we give preventative therapy for, there is no clear preventative therapy which would change the outcome of your exposure.  The second reason is that, if you have been sexually active in the past, whether or not you know it, it is likely that you have been unknowingly exposed to HPV, the virus that causes warts.  At present over 80% of sexually active persons, even if they have only had a single partner, have been exposed to and have HPV.---