Hsv1 really has me devastated

You CAN go on. I have hsv-1(g). I was diagnosed back in October. I'm still devastated about it as well. Not as much as I used to be. Just last week I felt a little sense of hope. I finally worked up enough courage to talk to my dr about how I would have a relationship with this. He told me I still could. Even though the guy that I really want probably won't want me anymore because he is so afraid of getting it even though I told him that genital to genital transmission is very uncommon I think it's still the thought of me having it. I feel as though he is the one so I have been a wreck with that as well. How am I supposed to deal with the rejection again. He said he would go to the dr with me to talk to him about it so I am hopeful. You will have good days and bad days. I get twitches in my legs and stuff and think it has to do with the virus. My dr said to try suppressive medicine but this is mostly to help with shedding. He says it pretty much makes it so I don't shed which lessons the already small chance of passing it on. It will take time but eventually you will feel better about yourself. I can't give you a time frame because it has been like 7 months for me and I still feel disgusting most days but at least now there are days that I don't think about the virus. It doesn't consume my life as much. I find myself smiling and laughing again. Usually when I have down time and am not doing anything is when I start to think about it. That's when I don't want to live and find life hopeless. But I feel if I can make any improvements on how I feel. I know that you can as well. I haven't had any other outbreaks either. We need to embrace that. There are some that I have read about that keep getting the outbreaks. Someone always has it worse. I know it's hard to feel like you can go on and hard to think that life will get better but over time it does improve. For me it ha improved slightly. So don't give up I feel it will take a long time for me to get back to feeling a little normal but I'm willing to wait since I have made it this long already. I don't think I will ever be the person I was before I got diagnosed with this again but I will be a different version of myself. I try to look at it as a new me. I think you should look at it like that as well. I'm sorry this is so long and probably not as uplifting as you were hoping for but all I can be is honest. I hope it at least helps you a tiny bit.

ladies, you'll be fine.

I get that you feel disgusting and it's hard to come to terms with but at the end of the day, it's a virus, it's a virus that everyone carries some forms of... anyone who's ever had a cold sore or chicken pox.

it doesn't make a difference to the person that you are and I'm sorry but if people can't see that then they're not worth having in your life.

I've only been diagnosed for about 3 weeks and when I was diagnosed I was angry and lost, how could someone who knew they had this not say anything but just pass it on? Then I realised it's not going to make anything better, just like getting low and feeling depressed isn't going to make it any better.

you still have a life and people who care about you and you're going to be just fine, if one day you do meet someone and they reject you because of this then it's their loss and not yours. There will be someone else out there that it won't make a difference to because they can see you for who you are.

You carry this virus but don'tet it define you.

if you're getting g tingles really bad then get the suppressive meds and see how they go.

For outbreaks use original sudocrem in the grey tub, it will clear it faster than anything else and takes the pain away from it.

Anything else is on you, keep your chins up and smile because you're amazing!!

GHSV 1 really isnt what others make it out to be. Its all just negative stigma. I was diagnosed the first week of janiary this year. Havent had an OB since, however i did experience tingling sensations down in my groin, i feared it was another OB coming on. But nothing ever happend, even to this day currently im experiencing aches and tingling sensations ( nothing so painful i cant go about my day). But my body doesnt break out in sores, so im not sure if its the same for tingling sensations in your legs. But i dont think it means youll have another OB. At least that doesnt happen for me and i get those tingling sensations.