I was diagnosed today with Genital Herpes and i feel so alone.

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I'm 19, and i was diagnosed witn Genital Herpes today after noticing sores around my vagina which i immediately thought was thursh as i'm prone to it! Sadly it wasn't, it was herpes. I feel absolutely awful, when the nurse told me, my heart sunk and almost immediately felt the lump in my throat. I had been in a relationship for 3 years before it ended when i came to uni. Then had one drunken one night stand and then this happens and we used condoms. I feel so ashamed and embarassed and not to mention dirty. I feel so alone as i'm too ashamed to tell my mum, i'm worried about my future having to tell future partners about this disgusting thing, i pretty much hate myself, everytime i'm by myself i think about it and feel almost immediately sick, i just can't stop crying, i wish this was just all a bad dream.

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    It is a skin condition Hun think of it like that you can sleep i with just one person and get this you could have had it before and not had symtoms Hun it can lay dormant for year don't get down about it remember it's a skin condition

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      Thank you for replying, i know, but other people including me before having this views it as dirty and can't help but assume that people with it sleeps around which i definitely do not, just all very humiliating.

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    Is it HSV1? If so, that's from oral sex, not intercourse, and two-thirds of people carry it, though mostly orally. HSV1 is the "good" one to have. Nasty first outbreak, but it rarely recurs for most people and isn't particularly infectious. Oral HSV1 is much more infectious than genital HSV1, and that's the common infection!

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