Hi all,
Guess this is how it starts. I was diagnosed a month or so ago with HSV-2. I have so many questions and everything has a different answer. I'm trying to keep my facts in order here peeps!!
How about I start with my WTF is that on my vagina moment... 3-6 days after sleeping with my current partner, I developed the itching and the soreness. I had a change of brith control, and it had some similar side effects and I was schedule to see my Obgyn soon anyhow. Couple days later the lessons started, and woke me from a dead sleep. Went to the OB, got checked... Visual diagnosis of herpes. Then... She swabbed me... Man alive that girl is lucky she told me not to kick her ahead of time because that is exactly what I would have done... Holy freaking monkeys Batman!!!
We talked about the possibilities of it being HSV-1 And that I could have had that for years. We also talked about how tired I had been and how foggy my head had been. Not full blown flu but exhausted, and mush brain, and sore all over... Be cause of this she said it was likely a recent exposure because if you have the virus your body adjusts to it, and makes antibodies, even without and outbreak. But with a first exposure and a first out break your body is having to fight a new enemy. So it has to work a lot harder. Is there any truth to this...???
Because... I asked my partner if he had ever been exposed (talk about a hard subject to breech)or had an outbreak and he said he hadn't. He ended up talking to his own Dr who told him that I could have had it for years and never had signs or symptoms. Which, not to say he isnt telling the truth, but what is more likely true... Both!?
Just feeling a bit lost and may have lost my partner. I left the ball in his court... But seeing as stress, depression, and chocolate cause outbreaks... I guess I'm just thankful to still be healing.
One day at a time...