Younggun21

Okay y’all, you’ve seen a lot of me since my recent diagnosis. My question at the moment is if there is any way to help lesson the discomfort and pain. Right after diagnoses I was given Tramadol, a prescription pain killer to help with pain. I was taking the Tramadol-along with Advil and it was minimally relieving the symptoms. I have since finished the Tramadol I was given and don’t want to return to the dr for anymore prescription medication. Taking 800mg of Advil every 4-6 hours doesn’t seem to even be making a difference. Do y’all have any advice on how to help alieviate my symptoms? It’s been a week since I noticed symptoms starting to occur but I’ve only been officially diagnosed since Friday. The lesions don’t seem to be starting to dry out and heal at all, in fact they seem to discharging more heavily. Being that i’m a college student I can’t just lay up in bed and not go anywhere. I walk with the strangest limp trying to keep my labia from rubbing against itself or my underwear or even shorts. I just feel miserable. Please help!

Also, has anyone noticed that one side of their body seems to get more lesions? Currently my left labia and just left side have significantly more lesions and are much more swollen than my right. Is that normal?

Has anyone else noticed in the healing process that their inner labia/vagina opening sort of seal together? I have sores on both sides of my inner labia and I’ve noticed that if I’m not regularly opening and separating them, they will literally fuse together and it hurts like the dickens to get them unstuck. Is this something I should just leave alone and let heal or should I continue to unstick them? I’ve noticed that it’s easier to urinate with them unstuck but I don’t know if it’s worth the pain it causes to do so.

@Ishmael His immediate reaction was it’s okay I know 1 in 5 people get it and I probably will get it sooner or later. We talked for a few minutes and then he proceeded to say that he still wasn’t going to wear a condom, which is what got us into this mess in the first place. I believe I got H from him. Also, thank you for the transmission info. I’ve lcoked at other things online, but it’s been hard to wrap my mind around everything that I’ve read in the last few days

I was just diagnosed with herpes on Friday and I have since told my partner and he was completely accepting and didn’t mind at all. Although he did state that he still refused to wear a condom. Due to some other circumstances I don’t know that I will be able to see him anymore. I’m so upset because he was so open and accepting of me and HSV. I just don’t know what I’m going to do. Also- how dangerous is it to not wear a condom if only one partner knowingly has HSV? Thanks a million!