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Herpes and Relationships
I have been in a relationship with my b/f for over 8 months now. He is fully aware of the genital herpes situation. I take Valtrex everyday and we use condoms and I refrain from having sex if I have an outbreak. Recently I got on the IUD not only to create Fort Knox down there HA but to also help with my heavy periods every month.
We recently discussed not using condoms because of the fact that I am on the IUD now. Told him that has to be 100% up to him and of course I will continue to take my medication and if I do have an outbreak or feel one coming on like always we will refrain. I have always been honest with him about it. He said he is a big boy and aware of the risk.
I was wanting to know thoughts on the situation and if any one else out there have made this decision and what the outcome has been.
We recently discussed not using condoms because of the fact that I am on the IUD now. Told him that has to be 100% up to him and of course I will continue to take my medication and if I do have an outbreak or feel one coming on like always we will refrain. I have always been honest with him about it. He said he is a big boy and aware of the risk.
I was wanting to know thoughts on the situation and if any one else out there have made this decision and what the outcome has been.
Thank you guys so much for your input!!
My doctor did tell me once before that taking the medication lowers the transmission risk to at least 2%...
My doctor did tell me once before that taking the medication lowers the transmission risk to at least 2%...
Taking antiviral does reduce shedding so i would think the stats are not from patients taking them.
You are correct to identify that they are non medicated figures. Antivirals vary in their effectiveness but average a reduction of 50%.
If you know your body well and avoid sex at times you are suspicious of, then with antivirals the average transmission to a male is 2.5% in a year of sex.
As Life suggests, he should know is HSV status to help understand the risks, he may already have an oral HSV1 infection which makes it incredibly unlikely he'd ever get HSV2 orally etc.
If you know your body well and avoid sex at times you are suspicious of, then with antivirals the average transmission to a male is 2.5% in a year of sex.
As Life suggests, he should know is HSV status to help understand the risks, he may already have an oral HSV1 infection which makes it incredibly unlikely he'd ever get HSV2 orally etc.
I have HSV2. Now that 15-30% of the days...is that when the patient is on the medication or not?
HI, he should get tested just to know his status. Also he should be aware of shedding without symptoms and with hvs2 genital occured 15-30% of the days evaluated and with hsv1 genital it occured 3-5% of the days evaluated, so first of all find out which you have.
Many with this prefer a partner with it as can make life much more easy and if the 2 of you intend to be together for the rest of you life, he may contracted it anyway some day/
Many with this prefer a partner with it as can make life much more easy and if the 2 of you intend to be together for the rest of you life, he may contracted it anyway some day/
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