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advice how to cope.
how do I start..... last Thursday I received oral sex for a woman and 2 days later I had 5 bumps on my penis. Rushed in to my Dr on Monday and he confirmed the worst after a simple visual .. I'm 225 pd man and felt like I don't know just lost all my strength. I'm sad, not mad, I should have known better, I should have been smatter. I always used protections in my life but now I'm sick for life and just don't know how to deal with it yet. I know it cant kill me but it makes me feel like an outsider now and that's hard. The Doctor started me on famciclovir order a full blood panel. How do I cope with it?? I've been reading online and learning about it as much as I can so far but its not easy.
all advice are welcome please!!
all advice are welcome please!!
The virus needs to have skin to skin contact and friction. Shedding means the virus is at the surface but there are no symptoms. Hsv1 sheds around 5-10% of days and you would need sexual contact to spread the virus. It doesn't float around. Anyone near you is completely safe. Hsv1 genital is rarely spread even with sexual contact. The hsv1 virus is not very potent as a genital infection.
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Thanks very much for all your info buddy! I guess physically I will manage for now but mentally it will be a while for me to get there. I will need to find a way to spend more time around fun, laugh and positive things so I don't fall into depression and have to many OB. I will be asking my doctor Monday about putting me on the suppressive treatment, hopefully he will do it for me. I deserves what happened to me even thou I was not running around like crazy but I should have known better. My goal is to protect my loves one at all cost, cant afford to past it to no one! It's main reason I want to be in the suppressive treatment, to lower my risk of passing it. Never had STD all my life, always protect my self, yearly check ups / test ect... but 15 of September 2016 will be forever part of me. The woman whom infected me swore to me she didn't know but Im not mad at her, she has 3 kids at home so I told to be careful and go back in few months to re test as well. I couldn't get a mad at her because we were two adults who decided to have sex together.
thanks again buddy!!
thanks again buddy!!
He can't confirm a strain or if you actually have hsv as he didn't test anything. Your igg blood test will take weeks to become positive. The bloodtest looks for antibodies and not the actual virus. It takes time for antibodies to show up. 12 weeks is generally considered conclusive. Visual diagnosis of hsv is inaccurate as even experts are wrong close to 50% of the time. Testing needed to be done.
Describe the lesions. How long did they last? How fast did they progress? Where they fluid or puss filled?
Describe the lesions. How long did they last? How fast did they progress? Where they fluid or puss filled?
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ok the lesions were like I guess like small bump I didn't see to much fluids at the time, it didn't hurt to much only when my underwear touch them when I moving around. They are still on penis head 8 days exactly today but looks like they are healing thou. I didn't have couch or fever, I did feel tired , feel like vomiting of course. They other party told me she didn't know that she had hvs1 and had a medical done not long ago and negative everything. Feelingundone explain the shedding again please! example: If I'm in bed can it float to either side to infect someone? Sitting inside a car with someone? How close must you be?
Hi also, from what you describe i highly doubt your bumps are herpes sores. 2 days is really to short of a time for them to appear. Takes about a week on average.
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The blood test came back negative, hiv included but he didn't do a swab test. I heard about false negative and I intend to do a re-test in a few weeks again. They did urine test thou and the visual he did.. I will take the meds as prescribed, will go back next week again to talk to him more about shedding process and if he can confirm the strain.
Hsv1 sheds very little and if you take antiviral meds it cuts that low number in half. Hsv needs skin to skin contact and friction to massage it into the skin or mucus membrane.
I wish your Dr. performed a swab test to confirm. Hsv can be difficult to diagnose by sight alone.
What other symptoms did you have and how did the. Usps progress? Did they become fluid filled blisters?
Now on to your concerns. First of all i known that a newly diagnosed hsv genital infection can be devastating. I know it seems like the end of the world. In reality it's far from it. If in fact you have hsv it's hsv1 as hsv2 is very rare as an oral infection and not very potent when it is. Hsv1 is usually very mild as a genital infection. It has few outbreaks and some folks never get another one past the primary (initial) outbreak. It also sheds far less than hsv2. One other thing to consider. Most adults have hsv1 in either a genital or oral (cold sores) infection. So anyone that gets cold sores will be immune from your hsv1. Hsv1 is rarely spread from genital to genital contact. So as you can see it is only an inconvenience and most adults have it in one place or another. You may never be bothered by it again and if you are it won't be often. Like I said, I know your very stressed right now but in time you will figure out that hsv is nothe going to stop you from anything. Not marriage or having kids. The world us still wide open for you. That I promise
What other symptoms did you have and how did the. Usps progress? Did they become fluid filled blisters?
Now on to your concerns. First of all i known that a newly diagnosed hsv genital infection can be devastating. I know it seems like the end of the world. In reality it's far from it. If in fact you have hsv it's hsv1 as hsv2 is very rare as an oral infection and not very potent when it is. Hsv1 is usually very mild as a genital infection. It has few outbreaks and some folks never get another one past the primary (initial) outbreak. It also sheds far less than hsv2. One other thing to consider. Most adults have hsv1 in either a genital or oral (cold sores) infection. So anyone that gets cold sores will be immune from your hsv1. Hsv1 is rarely spread from genital to genital contact. So as you can see it is only an inconvenience and most adults have it in one place or another. You may never be bothered by it again and if you are it won't be often. Like I said, I know your very stressed right now but in time you will figure out that hsv is nothe going to stop you from anything. Not marriage or having kids. The world us still wide open for you. That I promise
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feelingundone thank you very much for the answer. I still have a lot to learn and have another apt with my doctor for next Monday morning. Last Monday I couldn't think straight, I was dead in a word. I didn't know about the HVS1 from oral to genital and HVS2 had a difference and I hope what you wrote is correct! its the reason I need to sit and talk clearly with the Doc again. The shedding is my main concern because since you wont know when it is happening and how close must someone be to get? can it float in the air from one side of the bed to other side? so many ??? and To answer one of your ?? it did happened kind of fast (symptoms) ok I had oral sex from her Thursday morning, evening felts a little burning down there and next day noticed the pimples/ulcer whatever. Sunday I felt sick like a dog, no fever, feel like vomiting, tired, and my boddy felt a little weird. Again thanks for answer anything else you tell me will help.
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Herpes spreads by oral, vaginal and anal sex.
Herpes sores blister, then burst, scab and heal.
STIs are the most common cause of genital sores.
Millions of people are diagnosed with STDs in the U.S. each year.
STDs can't be transmitted by casual contact, like hugging or touching.
Syphilis is an STD that is transmitted by oral, genital and anal sex.
