Do you have herpes ?

Question

I'd like to hear this from someone who actually has them and is brave enough to admit it.

1. How did you find out you had it
2. What were the signs
3. How often do you have outbreaks
4. How does it effect your "social" life
5. On a scale of 1-10 how hard is it to deal with
6. Are people you tell about it supportive
7. Do you know who gave it to you
8. Are you taking medication - if so which one
9. How can you best describe living with it.
10. What do you think caused it...ie: lifestyle, unprotected sex, etc.

Answer 1

1. I had my initial outbreak (I didn't know what it was at the time) and went to the doctor to find out what was going on. She took one look at me and said "it's genital herpes".

2. Sores, flu-like symptoms, swollen glands, and EXTREME pain.

3. I had about 3 the first year and about one outbreak every year after that. I have been outbreak free for over 2 years now.

4. It doesn't. I do everything that any "normal" person without herpes does.

5. Scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being the easiest I would rate it a 1.

6. Yes, every single person I have told has been extremely supportive of me. My mother was with me when I was diagnosed (I was 17 years old) and she was the one who really got me through the first few months.

7. Yes

8. No. I only take medication when I have an outbreak or "feel" an outbreak coming on. I take acyclovir when I have an outbreak.

9. Manageable. Of course the outbreaks are painful, but when I am not having one I live a completely normal and happy life. I have a great family, great fiance, and I couldn't be happier. I don't let having genital herpes control and ruin my life.

10. Being young and ignorant. Thinking "that would never happen to me". Boy, was I wrong.

Take care!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

1. I had an outbreak and got tested for the virus.

2. I had painful leisons in my genital area. I also have had a few severe yeast infections (which could possibly be an outbreak).

3. Since I found out in June, I've had about 3 recognizable outbreaks.

4. I don't think about it much...it's kinda been on the back burner, so it doesn't affect me that much. It's difficult when I have to disclose. It's not that I've been rejected...I just feel awkward.

5. 9. It's still sinking in...I have been putting off actually thinking about it because I want to concentrate on my education and career. So it's been pretty tough to come to terms with it.

6. My friends are there for me, but guys that I have disclosed to, I feel, it deters the development of the relationship. (I disclose early so that I don't get attached and then he dumps me b/c I have the virus.)

7. I am almost sure I know who I got Simplex 2 from, but I didn't know I had Simplex 1. I don't really get cold sores and I had braces, so bumps in my mouth that I though were from braces could have been cold sores.

8. I only take Valtrex when I have an outbreak. I don't take suppressive therapy, but doesn't mean I won't.

9. I live day to day. Like I said, I don't think about it much...it's been on the back burner.

10. It's not that I lived a promiscuous life, but it was probably the unprotected sex. However, condoms are only 50% effective against Herpes anyways.

Answer 5

My best friend has had genital herpes for about eight months now, and it's been really rough. She's had about 7 outbreaks. Everywhere I read it says it stops flaring up so much after time, but its not getting less frequent for her. She's been on Antiviral meds the whole time, too. She also has type 1 diabetes which she has had her whole life, which really weakens her immune system. Will it ever get better?

But after a friend share this video everything has changed.
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Answer 6

yes.

1. pain that was not healed with yeast infection meds
2. little cuts
3. haven't had a problem for about a year and a half :)
4. my social life? not at all
5. now not hard to deal with at all.. but VERY hard to come to terms with.
6. dont' tell people other than doctors and my partner - yes they are.
7. i have a pretty good idea where it came from
8. take Valtrex when there's an outbreak
9. don't really know how to answer this. it sucked at first.. i cried a lot.. was humiliated.. felt disgusting.. the whole deal.. but then i told my partner who was so ok with it that it blew my mind away. she made me feel silly for thinking it was such a big deal. and now it's been so long since i've had an outbreak that i hardly think about it at all. big change from when they first told me and i thought 1. my life was over and 2. i'd never have sex again.

10. oral sex with someone who had a cold sore.

Answer 7

Yes, for two years now. I have genital hsv-1 though not hsv-2.

1. I went to the doctor with a 'cut' at the entrance to my vagina and discharge which I originally thought was a yeast infection, however it became very painful and I realised there was a bit more to it. The tender and swollen genital glands were a bit of a giveaway. Still the diagnosis came as a bit of a shock

2. 'Cut' at vaginal entrance, a bit of a rash or redness on labia but nothing much, mainly just running a terrible fever and feeling like crap with abdominal pain thrown in. No blisters whatsoever.

3. I'm unlucky, despite the fact I have hsv-1 which should recur rarely, I get outbreaks on average about 6 times a year. Most are very mild, almost unnoticeable, and go very quickly.

4. I'm with a steady boyfriend who isn't bothered by it and although I've told three men altogether and a few female friends, no one has seen it as a big deal or run or anything. In fact no one I told has had anything but a positive reaction

5. About a 4, I think. A 2 for the physical symptoms - it is a pain I have so many outbreaks even if they are mild, because they remind me I have it and make me feel a bit crap. However, despite an overwhelmingly positive reaction, I worry about it every day, in terms of telling any men in the future. It is just that I know if a man had any hint of an 'eeeww' reaction or was negative, even to begin with, I'd walk because I couldn't handle it. Our sexual relaionship would be doomed before it started. I want to feel fanciable, not like someone is trying to get their head around something in order to come near me.

6. No man I have ever told has been bothered. I have unprotected sex with my boyfriend, and the other two would have been prepared to have unprotected sex with me if we were in a steady relationship without any concern at all. However, all of then had hsv-1 orally so they knew their chances of catching it were pretty slim. My friends are fine with it, they just say it isn't a big deal. The only people so far who have made me feel bad are my parents, who didn't want to share a bathroom with me at first.

7. Yes, my on-off long term boyfriend of the last eight years. He gets cold sores a lot, every few weeks.

8. No, they are too stingy to prescribe it to me here in the UK. It costs too much.

9. Just a bit of a pain every now and then, very minor really. No worse than oral cold sores. Just the stigma makes you feel rather insecure.

10. Having a boyfriend who got cold sores when I didn't get them. He was a nurse and we were conscious of the possibility I could catch them genitally, so he only gave me oral sex about once a year for the first six years of our relationship because he didn't feel like he could live with giving me genital herpes. Then one day he gave me oral sex, can't have happened for 12 months and it only lasted for a few seconds. A few days later I developed symptoms. Just unfortunate really. I haven't slept around - he was the first boyfriend I had.

Answer 8

1. went to the doctor with unbearable pain.
2. sores on my vagina, nasty discharge, feeling weak and nauseated. pain
3. only had one oevr a yr ago
4. doenst affect my social life at all.
5. 1 being the easiest. I never even think abt it.
6. Yes the people are supportive
7. My current boyfriend,a nd the only guy i have ever been with gave it to me.
8. No i only took medication when i first went to the doc. i was on valtrex for a few weeks. now i dont take anything.
9. Its in my body just like the common cold virus is in everyone else's body. It doesnt bother me at all
10. I had oral with a guy who did NOT have any sores on his mouth. It was a rare way to spread herpes. and doesnt happen often but is possible. sucks too since he is the only guy i have ever been with and all those other girls have 10-15 or more partners and never catch anything.

Answer 9

1. woke up one day with spots ,went to a clinic and the doc took one look and said yup thats herpes
2.no signs
3. once a mounth or two last four five days
4. my social life is a lie my freinds think ive turned gay because i turn down all the women who ask me out .
5.......its hard for some and not so hard for those who give it away freely .
6.No
7.yes she was of all people a nurse.
8.dont need to ,im fit as hell .I just rub a bit of cream on a spot that looks threatening and it dosent come up most of the time
9.lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate
10 .the cause is the person who has it and knows but dosnt say anything

Answer 10

I'm going to answer this from the perspective my son who has genital herpes.

1. Went to the doctor because of unexplainable pain.
2. Anal swelling bleeding and pain.
3.As far as I know since daily treatment none.
4. He now has to be very careful and always use a condom
5. 4
6. Yes
7. Yes
8. Valtrex daily
9. Inconvenient
10. Lifestyle, unprotected sex.