I have been have a tingly tongue and now a terrible soar throat and ear ache stuffy nose ect.  The tongue seems to feel better if I take Zyrtec, but still tingles for the last couple weeks. I have been taking all different vit/mins to help with the non 16/18 HPV infection. I have been very worried about my tongue so started to read on line about Oral Hpv and warts and now I am freaking out. Do warts cause the tongue to tingle? And if I have non 16/18 does that mean if it is warts on the tongue odds are I don't have oral cancer? 

"tingly tongue and now a terrible soar throat and ear ache stuffy nose":  Sore throat, earache, and nasal congestion all suggest you have a cold or allergy. HPV doesn't cause such symptoms. See below about your tingling tongue.

But the important problem here is your serious and somewhat irrational overreaction to the whole notion of HPV. Having sexually acquired HPV is a normal, expected, unavoidable, and mostly harmless consequence of being a sexually active human. Pap smears (usually with HPV testing) are important to detect the minority that are likely to be more serious (but even the highest risk types usually do not lead to actual cancer); and immunization of young people is important to reduce the risk of infections more likely to cause future health problems. Beyond these, it isn't appropriate to be fearful about HPV.

All of us are inhabited by trillions of bacteria, viruses, and other components of the "microbiome" that inhabit our skin, intestines, genital tract, and all body cavities. Some of them can occaionally cause disease, sometimes serious or even fatal: that's how we get staph or strep infection, urinary tract infections, pimples, recurrent chickenpox (in the form of shingles), and sometimes delayed consequences of previously silent HPV or herpes infections. But these are exceptions, and in fact the vast bulk of our microbiomes not only are not harmful, but are essential to our health.  We would all die early without them. That some of these happen to be passed between persons by sex doesn't make them special. In fact, you can be sure that your genital tract is filled with various bacteria and perhaps unknown viruses that you acquired from your sex partner(s) over the years; and they are sharing bacteria and viruses that started with you.

The point is that HPV is just part of all this. I repeat that it is normal and expected, and not necessarily unhealthy, that you have HPV. It should not be a cause of anxiety and worry, as long as you follow your doctor's advice for follow-up to be sure you don't end up in that small minority that has a potential health problem. And oral infection is especially unlikely to ever cause a health problem.

Best wishes--  HHH, MD