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By viola33 | April 29, 2008
I sometimes receive people’s stories with herpes and I often feel bad because I’m the only one to read them. If you’d be generous enough to share them with us, I would be extremely grateful.
You don’t know or maybe you do, how lonely people with herpes can feel, especially after first diagnosis. Sharing your story here can make a big difference.
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Topics: Tell Nathalie |
April 30th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
well where do i start i moved to california last august and before i moved here i had only ever kissed one guy…. then i started becoming more sexually active i slept with three guys all at separate times then about 3 months ago i decided i should go get tested for STDs and i didnt get any results back… a little later i started to get sores in my genitals area i was super scared and i was hoping it was just a UTI or a yeast infection but i went to get it checked out and just a couple weeks ago i got the results back that i was positive for herpes… it was the worst feeling ever!! i didnt know what to do… and life went on. about the same time i heard about my herpes i met this amazing guy and really really liked him. so i was trying to get up the nerve to tell him about my herpes. the last saturday i got really drunk and he went down on me. i ended up telling him the next day and he hasnt talked to me since then. i feel like a horrible person and am just trying to learn to deal with the fact that i have a disease for life and because of it i lost a guy i really really cared about…
May 27th, 2008 at 12:40 am
It’s unfortunate that people treat this skin disorder with such condemnation - but that is the reality for most. I have been in relationships with folks from both parties: those who love you enough to deal with it (and properly work with it), and those who simply walk away once they hear that you have it. The person that v. richards spoke about will either move on or come back. If he doesn’t come back, then he didn’t want to be with her that badly after all - and she would have to move on herself. If she is looking for a string of relationships, then she should let her partners know. If she is looking for mr. right (husband,partner for life) she could rest assure that he who accepts her for who she is, will be right for her, given the circumstances. I know some people who would welcome herpes over 99 percent of the diseases out there. It seems, however that people today have become more and more paranoid and germophobic than ever, to a point of such absurdity that it rattles my brain. I’m not particularly thrilled to have gential herpes, but I have never given it to anyone thanks to being strategically aware of its attacks, etc… I don’t know which method worked, but I haven’t had any attacks, symptons at all for sometime ( a year, now). But whatever it is, it’s working. And what I have read in Natalie’s website seems to have a great deal of merit, because it greatly resembles the way I approached a solution to GH - and as a unexpected surprise, a solution to other “diseases” and ailments as well!
June 6th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I’ve had HSV for 20 years and have never infected anyone (outbreaks every 3-5 years– it hasn’t been a big deal). I appreciate your sane, down-to-earth approach to educating people about HSV, and particularly your statement:
What I don’t like is the manipulative publicity, lying, and data tweaking that is done by chemical groups just to get an extra buck.
I also have done extensive research and have come to the conclusion that Big Pharma wants to scare people about asymptomatic shedding so they will buy Valtrex (and other products). I’m sure you’ve noticed that on site after site intended for the general public, you’ll find fairly identical information, i.e., they all get it from the same biased, data-tweaking Big Pharma source.
I can’t afford your e-book but am thinking about recommending it to a friend of a friend.
Does it link to studies that show how rare asymptomatic shedding is? (I’ve found a few, but I don’t know if they’re the best or most definitive.) Are you able to make a strong case for the misinformation that is fed to the public? It’s difficult to convince people that the information they hear from a doctor (parroting the same biased pharmaceutical company sources) is inaccurate.
K
August 16th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
I have had herpes for 8 years now… I got it from a girlfriend, now my wife. The end of the world is here, I thought. We played it safe and used condoms (got it from her going down on me), but after a while stopped using them and were just careful not to have sex when I got a outbreak. Only thing is, after about a year or two I only have had one other outbreak, and the outbreaks after the first were almost nothing. Now, after living with herpes for so long and becoming a medical doctor, paying special attention to herpes, I have come to realize it is usually not that serious, and in most cases either becomes so insignificant to one’s daily life, or even non-existent. The most serious threat I believe can happen is shingles later in life, which are quite painful. I have not had any signs of an outbreak for 3-4 years now, it is so far in the past I barely remember it. Also, I definitely agree with what K says, most research I have read indicates little asymptomatic shedding, and in most cases there is NONE. In fact, my wife has not shown any symptoms, and we are intimate very often, although we cannot verify that she does not have it, since some people never show symptoms, and the antibody herpes simplex I she gave me will show up anyway because she has it orally already. My advice for anyone that has it is not to worry, see a doctor and wait for a while, it, in most cases will not be severe and will be VERY VERY VERY easy to live with.