Okay, I've been holding out on posting here for a while, but I want to talkabout this. I just found out like last week that I have genital herpes. I'm assuming I've had it for a while because it's been three years since me or BD slept with anyone else. I know I can't possibly KNOW that BD hasn't slept with someone else, but I"m pretty sure and I"m not gonna get into all the reasons cuz that's not the point of the post.
Anyways, I was really devasted by this diagnosis. I'm dealing better now that I'm healed up and me and BD are cool about (as cool as you could be, I guess). I just wanna here from others who have herpes, or even genital warts, and how you deal with it. I feel so stigmatized,and I haven't even told anyone at all because I'm scared of how they'll act around me.
Can we talk about herpes?
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Tue, 2004-05-25 07:30
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Can we talk about herpes?
Please don't feel embarassed to post about this. Genital herpes is very common and you don't have to tell anyone that you don't want to.
You might find this link helpful http://www.ashastd.org/hrc/ try to speak to a medical professional, maybe even in a family planning clinic for confidential advice on treatment.
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When I found out I had GW I was devasted too.. so Im there with you, I havent had an outbreak in almost 3 years, but it's still on my mind at times, I did *ALOT* of surfing the net for information, and even called this place in Seattle that is a college research clinic that was doing trials on a syrium (sp?) for GW and talked to the woman in change of mediating it who was a professor.. it gave me alot more insight then what Planned Parenthood and my doctor had told me.. I'd said on a post about this before, I was really embarassed at first when i found out, but once I opened up about it to certain friends.. it turned out just how many people I actually knew with it too.
Herpes is so odd. Like 2 years ago everyone was sooo worried about it and now they won't even test me for it at my college's health center because it is so common. My nurse practitioner literally told me that since like 1 in 3 people on our campus have it that they don't recomend being tested because it isn't a bid deal to have it and my insurance might freak out about it if i do have it. Also I guess I'm an unlikely case since I've only ever been with three virigins (and i'm pretty sure none of them were with anyone else while with me), but still, she made it seem like it was just something that we all end up with. Sort of like getting colds or something.