I have just been told I have HSV2..I can't stop crying, so depressed

It's a horrible diagnosis but it's not the end of the world. Read the statistics a lot of people have it, it's more common then you think.  I know several people who have it and they know people who have it.  I first found out about it when I was 20 and I had been in a monogamis relationship, I am now 44 and I have been in many relationships and my other partners wheren't turned off by it and where very accepting..  I have been with the man i am with now for 11 years! You can take lysine regulary, epsom salts sits baths, Valtrex to get rid of it and once gone stay on the Valtrex  then once a day for suppresive therapy.. Take care, Be strong and good luck and know you are not alone! 

Angelina,

First, you need to know  2 things about herpes, everyone and their mother has it, but guess what, because of that stigma, you may never know your best friends share in your struggle (more than 25% females have it, and many more people have it in the uk), which I know because I started a herpes aware Facebook recently because one things for sure, NO ONE IS TALKING about herpes.

You're right about one thing; yes indeed herpes still has that stigma attached to it that makes us all feel like an outcast, but that stigma is entirely false. Herpes tells us all the same lies, "your ugly," was one lie I happened to believe for too long, but herpes will try to lie to you. The herpes stigma will tell you, "damaged goods, your love life is over, or no one will ever want you" and you will learn over over time, these indeed are lies. I felt the same way and it caused me to say "f**k finding a relationship, because no girl will ever want to be with me, so f**k it all...and I became bitter and cynical. But that's not who I am, and I believed those lies so herpes can have a dramatic effect if you don't know the truth and you let it.

Remember too when you share it with whoever, not to victimize it, because it makes you sound like you did something wrong and you didnt do anything wrong (anyone that has sex can get it). When you talk about it, talk about it objectively, I've tested positive for the herpes simplex virus.

3 friends I met from Europe in the last 3 months all had it, and the only way I found out was I told them about my herpes awareness Facebook page. If you do want to be a part you can find my page h aware and it's a girl in a bee outfit on the profile

Trust, time will show you you're not alone and God will show you a man who will love you.

Remember, 

We're in this together.

I just moved 4 provinces away from home wen I though OMG!!!a painful ingrown hair! Little did I know I couldn't get the hair out cause... Seeing a new DR told me what you have been told before. Although I left the office with some sense of relieve. Let me explain the way my DR explain this. 

Women are more likely to have them withouth out

 knowing. Could be inside and we don't know

If you have it and give birth, if it is out you could give it to you child. The child might never see it or maybe will in 10, 20, 60 years. It is unpredictable but most likely to come out wen immune system is down or stress. 

Now knowing that your mother and or father could have it and don't know. May never appear to them. 

86% of women have it and it's a blister. Takes as long to heal and contagious as chickenpox. 

Now that I know that it is comforting. But having know about it for 3 week and it came out twice already. I don't have all the answers and I am hoping to share with you all. 

I hope as a person just finding out like you we can exchange and help each other

Good luck))

I think I might have it to and my bf does not know yet iam trying to aviod him I dont want him to get it iam stress because we recently had sex and its just a rash I see spots that are red but no itch or pain I took acyclovir and that did make a difference thats when I said it is den herpes its been a month since and I still have the same symptoms how did you find out that you thought it was herpes 

Please don't get scared by what you read from JS13. I don't know where JS13 got their information, but 86% of women do not have this. You don't need to live in fear that your children will be contaminated by you. You don't need to assume that maybe your parents have it and don't know. Neither sex is more likely to "not know", some people are just asymptomatic depending on a multitude of factors - like lifestyle, diet, stress levels, etc. 

 

ok, well, I dont have it but my partneer does, I have been with him just over 2 years been on holidays for a month weekend breaks bought a house together and I never had a clue, then the other day he told me, he was a wreck telling me shaking and sweating etc Ithought it was something devestating he wanted to tell me, he sid it was like 20yrs ago and it changed his life forever, i was asking him all types of qestions my head was spinning but i knew I had to give him time to bring himself to tell me so I shut up.. but then when he told me, It never bothered me at all... I asked him why he never told me before, but he had his reasons one girl he told straight away she  went mad hiting him etc, the main one he never wanted to loose me he had fallen in love so much and he wanted to move on, but he decided he has to be honest it was no good living a lie, yep I was furious as he never let me decide before i had fallen in love etc, but he felt he could not tell me he never knew how to, but I never showed him  how angry i was over that he was upset enough.

its not the end of the world, i think HSV1 is worse to be honest because you can turn your face and tell a loved  one you cant kiss me thats every day untill its

gone, but HSV2 you can still kiss cuddle etc, just cant have sex untill its cleared, 

it gets less over the years and you can take a pill, I suffer from cold soresHSV1 probably one a year so what,  

He told me he understood if I never wanted him anymore but before he told me he kept telling me its something i can control (honest he kept repeating) 30 min or more it took him to tell me :-( my heart broke for him

honest it no big deal some people are narrow minded and then they are the people you know you do not want in your life, obviously you probably do not want to tell everyone its private and personal, but there is someone out there infact many people out that it will not bother and you will find someone.

So please do not be down its more comman than you might think xxx

There is a company in Sonoma, CA - USA called Forces of Nature that makes a product called H Balm that is amazing for HSV 1&2. It's a topical oil that is organic and non-toxic. There's nothing else that comes close to working like this and I have tried everything.