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New to the community and with a few questions.
Hello,
Last week i was diagnosed with HSV-2.
It has been a very trying time for me, a business owner of a personal fitness company and someone who spends every day in the gym and focused on health, to have this happen.
I have to start by saying thank you for making this forum. It has educated my girlfriend and i beyond belief and i now believe there is hope for me yet.
I read a section in another post about the chances one can contract HSV-2 while someone has no symptoms and i followed up by reading about it more in the herpes hand-book. I would just like to clarify.
It said 10-100 women will get herpes under their under rules (No sex with symptoms, No suppresive therapy, no barriers).
I.e - 10%
So if i use suppresive therapy (Valtrex) - It reduces it to 95% chance to reduce transmission. correct? (cutting the 10 in half).
And barriers add another 50% making it 97.5..?
My girlfriend and i have never been big into condoms and i tend to have a lot of stage fright when it comes to using one. She does not want me to use one, rather she wishes i go onto the suppresive therapy. (This is the girl i plan to marry - she was my best friend for 5 years).
It was really tested us both and we both see we are here for the long-run. In a way i kind of see this as a little blessing - it was forced us to work on our communication and showed one another we really care and support each other. On the sad side, we used to have sex a LOT.
To add to my question, the area of which i had my outbreak was so small (for a first outbreak) my doctor was slightly confused. Could it be that because i spend so much time on my health and in the gym that my immune system acted so fast that it cought it before it could expand?
Also, Is there something my girlfriend can take to increase her immune response, i.e reducing her chance to contract the virus?
and last but not least, i didn't see anything about polysporin on the herpes handbook, does it help? i would imagin it locks the virus in place and helps healing the tissue around it.
Oh wait, one more - im sorry.
I now have this huge worry that every time i am washing my self, if i wash that area and move to another - could i spread it? or when i dry my self with my towel and continue to the rest of my body, can it spread? i'm sure these are just me being a little too worried, but still, anything can help!
Thank you guys so much for taking the time to answer my barrage of questions,
It really means the world to me.
K
Last week i was diagnosed with HSV-2.
It has been a very trying time for me, a business owner of a personal fitness company and someone who spends every day in the gym and focused on health, to have this happen.
I have to start by saying thank you for making this forum. It has educated my girlfriend and i beyond belief and i now believe there is hope for me yet.
I read a section in another post about the chances one can contract HSV-2 while someone has no symptoms and i followed up by reading about it more in the herpes hand-book. I would just like to clarify.
It said 10-100 women will get herpes under their under rules (No sex with symptoms, No suppresive therapy, no barriers).
I.e - 10%
So if i use suppresive therapy (Valtrex) - It reduces it to 95% chance to reduce transmission. correct? (cutting the 10 in half).
And barriers add another 50% making it 97.5..?
My girlfriend and i have never been big into condoms and i tend to have a lot of stage fright when it comes to using one. She does not want me to use one, rather she wishes i go onto the suppresive therapy. (This is the girl i plan to marry - she was my best friend for 5 years).
It was really tested us both and we both see we are here for the long-run. In a way i kind of see this as a little blessing - it was forced us to work on our communication and showed one another we really care and support each other. On the sad side, we used to have sex a LOT.
To add to my question, the area of which i had my outbreak was so small (for a first outbreak) my doctor was slightly confused. Could it be that because i spend so much time on my health and in the gym that my immune system acted so fast that it cought it before it could expand?
Also, Is there something my girlfriend can take to increase her immune response, i.e reducing her chance to contract the virus?
and last but not least, i didn't see anything about polysporin on the herpes handbook, does it help? i would imagin it locks the virus in place and helps healing the tissue around it.
Oh wait, one more - im sorry.
I now have this huge worry that every time i am washing my self, if i wash that area and move to another - could i spread it? or when i dry my self with my towel and continue to the rest of my body, can it spread? i'm sure these are just me being a little too worried, but still, anything can help!
Thank you guys so much for taking the time to answer my barrage of questions,
It really means the world to me.
K
Thank you for your answers.
I will let you know after i call them tomorrow.
Also, what is considered safe after the blister has healed. if the skin of the area is still slightly pink - is that still considered symptomatic?
I will let you know after i call them tomorrow.
Also, what is considered safe after the blister has healed. if the skin of the area is still slightly pink - is that still considered symptomatic?
Daily supressive therapy and avoiding sex during anything genital going on will cut it to 98% chance your partner will not get herpes that year.
Yes call them and ask if they typed it. Cultures usually take time for them to grow. I will derfer to grace on that though. She knows more about how they culture things than I.
Yes call them and ask if they typed it. Cultures usually take time for them to grow. I will derfer to grace on that though. She knows more about how they culture things than I.
On a side note, being positive -
It said 10-100 women will get herpes under their under rules (No sex with symptoms, No suppresive therapy, no barriers).
I.e - 10%
So if i use suppresive therapy (Valtrex) - It reduces it to 95% chance to reduce transmission. correct? (cutting the 10 in half).
And barriers add another 50% making it 97.5..?
It said 10-100 women will get herpes under their under rules (No sex with symptoms, No suppresive therapy, no barriers).
I.e - 10%
So if i use suppresive therapy (Valtrex) - It reduces it to 95% chance to reduce transmission. correct? (cutting the 10 in half).
And barriers add another 50% making it 97.5..?
The doctor did take a swab though,
I waited 3 days and they called me and asked me to come in for a follow up. It was that day that he said it was positive. Should i have a second one done?
Or should i just call and ask which cultures they tested?
I waited 3 days and they called me and asked me to come in for a follow up. It was that day that he said it was positive. Should i have a second one done?
Or should i just call and ask which cultures they tested?
It might be HSV-2 and it might not be. Can't say either way. They both do for the most part the same thing. While outbreak patterns for HSV-1 are few that is not a 100% gurantee that is what it is. Why guess when you may be able to track it down.
Bad customer service and bed side manner for that doctor. Sometimes I hate how doctors treat patients. I have had some bad doctors in my time. So I would agree that he shouldn't do things like that but...
Typically your inital outbreak is the worst. They can be mild but the thing about HSV is everyone respondes different. Typically it is the most painful. But sometimes its mild for some people. Though a mild outbreak typically is a reocurrance but again this isn't always the case.
The tingling you hear about is a prodome and it comes before the blister. Not after or during.
Yeah some walk in clinics are. That is one thing I hate about the area I live in. A lot of the doctors are walk in clinics. You don't get to know your doctor. I miss the doctor I had in the city I used to live in. He was the only doctor I have ever known to tell me it was okay to address him by his first name. But he was only a little older than I. Plus it took a while for us to get to that level. I had fixed his computers for years.
Anyhoo. See if they typed the culture though. Some times the order has it and sometimes not. If not the only way to know is a blood test until you get symptoms again which can be swabbed.
Bad customer service and bed side manner for that doctor. Sometimes I hate how doctors treat patients. I have had some bad doctors in my time. So I would agree that he shouldn't do things like that but...
Typically your inital outbreak is the worst. They can be mild but the thing about HSV is everyone respondes different. Typically it is the most painful. But sometimes its mild for some people. Though a mild outbreak typically is a reocurrance but again this isn't always the case.
The tingling you hear about is a prodome and it comes before the blister. Not after or during.
Yeah some walk in clinics are. That is one thing I hate about the area I live in. A lot of the doctors are walk in clinics. You don't get to know your doctor. I miss the doctor I had in the city I used to live in. He was the only doctor I have ever known to tell me it was okay to address him by his first name. But he was only a little older than I. Plus it took a while for us to get to that level. I had fixed his computers for years.
Anyhoo. See if they typed the culture though. Some times the order has it and sometimes not. If not the only way to know is a blood test until you get symptoms again which can be swabbed.
I had blood tests done as well as a urine sample the day i went to get all my tests done - along with a swab of the liquid in one of the blisters.
When i went back to the doctor for the follow up - they said my lab results were all negative but my swab was "Genital herpes".
I asked him which type and he repeated "Genital herpes".
Walk in clinics are so lame.
When i went back to the doctor for the follow up - they said my lab results were all negative but my swab was "Genital herpes".
I asked him which type and he repeated "Genital herpes".
Walk in clinics are so lame.
So what your saying is that it might not be herpes type 2?
The first doctor didn't think so when she took the swab but the second doctor was very rude and literally wrote me a prescription and literally pushed me out of his office.
Isn't the first outbreak supposed to be really bad?
I had tingling sensasion when i urinated and a wierd pain down the inside on my leg up into my groin area. And then i noticed a very small blister. It literally looked like 1 small black head and that is what i thought it was. I popped it and i put some acne cream on it and it went away and a week later i noticed i had 2 more in the same spot.
Sorry if i'm all over the place here.
The first doctor didn't think so when she took the swab but the second doctor was very rude and literally wrote me a prescription and literally pushed me out of his office.
Isn't the first outbreak supposed to be really bad?
I had tingling sensasion when i urinated and a wierd pain down the inside on my leg up into my groin area. And then i noticed a very small blister. It literally looked like 1 small black head and that is what i thought it was. I popped it and i put some acne cream on it and it went away and a week later i noticed i had 2 more in the same spot.
Sorry if i'm all over the place here.
Can you call your doctors office and find out if they did a typing on the culture. Typing the culture is what they should do by default but they don't sometimes. If they didn't have them call them lab and see if they still have the specicmen to do a typing on.
I would suggest that your girlfriend be tested to know her own status. Regardless if some people can recall symptoms they may be in fact positive for herpes. Usually HSV-1 orally if they do have HSV.
The other thing is if they didn't type the culture and lab destoryed things you could do a type specific igg test as long as you have at least 3 months after that sexual encounter you should test positive. Not much of a way to tell from the blisters themself.
I would suggest that your girlfriend be tested to know her own status. Regardless if some people can recall symptoms they may be in fact positive for herpes. Usually HSV-1 orally if they do have HSV.
The other thing is if they didn't type the culture and lab destoryed things you could do a type specific igg test as long as you have at least 3 months after that sexual encounter you should test positive. Not much of a way to tell from the blisters themself.
I had 2 small blisters appear near very bottom(top side) of my genitals.
I know where it came from because i was diagnosed a month before my girlfriend and i actually started dated because i had a sexual encounter with some random girl i shouldn't have. She didn't know she was infected but at the time infected me with chlamidiya and for the past 6 months i started to feel a bit sick. I had a sore throat and somewhat flu-ish symptoms and the doctors thought it was from my pre-workout suppliments.
Then a week ago i developed the 2 blisters. They progressed until they burst open and i just so happen to be right at the doctors office when it happened. she took a swab and it came back positive.
The doctor however was very forward and slightly rude in saying "You have herpes". I said ok, which kind, he said genital herpes. The doctor prior to him said she was very confused because my blisters were very small and the actual area it had infected was even smaller (about the side of a thumb nail). Also, the liquid inside the blisters was clear. She said it is usually cloudy?
It healed up almost before the next doctor sent me to get the medication.
Maybe it could be HSV-1?
Anyways, moving forward - She has not been tested, no. But she has had no symptoms currently.
We have avoided sex since the outbreak happened and awaiting the suppresive therapy.
Again, thank you for your time.
I know where it came from because i was diagnosed a month before my girlfriend and i actually started dated because i had a sexual encounter with some random girl i shouldn't have. She didn't know she was infected but at the time infected me with chlamidiya and for the past 6 months i started to feel a bit sick. I had a sore throat and somewhat flu-ish symptoms and the doctors thought it was from my pre-workout suppliments.
Then a week ago i developed the 2 blisters. They progressed until they burst open and i just so happen to be right at the doctors office when it happened. she took a swab and it came back positive.
The doctor however was very forward and slightly rude in saying "You have herpes". I said ok, which kind, he said genital herpes. The doctor prior to him said she was very confused because my blisters were very small and the actual area it had infected was even smaller (about the side of a thumb nail). Also, the liquid inside the blisters was clear. She said it is usually cloudy?
It healed up almost before the next doctor sent me to get the medication.
Maybe it could be HSV-1?
Anyways, moving forward - She has not been tested, no. But she has had no symptoms currently.
We have avoided sex since the outbreak happened and awaiting the suppresive therapy.
Again, thank you for your time.
how were you diagnosed as having hsv2?
has your gf had a type specific herpes igg blood test to see what her status is?
no , polysporin isn't helpful for herpes. herpes is a virus, not a bacteria. also topical antibiotics can be very irritating on our sensitive genital skin so avoiding them is always a good idea unless told to do so specifically by your medical provider.
no, you aren't going to spread herpes all over your body. Dry off your genitals next to last ( feet are always last ) like you should be doing regardless of if you have genital herpes or not.
grace
has your gf had a type specific herpes igg blood test to see what her status is?
no , polysporin isn't helpful for herpes. herpes is a virus, not a bacteria. also topical antibiotics can be very irritating on our sensitive genital skin so avoiding them is always a good idea unless told to do so specifically by your medical provider.
no, you aren't going to spread herpes all over your body. Dry off your genitals next to last ( feet are always last ) like you should be doing regardless of if you have genital herpes or not.
grace
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