Karla

Hi! Good evening. I have Type 1 on lips only also, and yes, if you do not eat well, sleep good or you stress a lot is a big trigger for cold sores. Take lysine as supplement for in force your immune system, and maybe you should consider a suppresion treatment. I was like you and I have taken Valacyclovir for little more than a month now and even when I know I have a bad immune system because my life routine, I have not and outbreak since then. Do not stress more than the necessary with this because it will be worse, just treat it 😉

Maybe my case is little lighter but I want to share it. I had never disclosed before, and recently a man rejected me only because I git an outbreak on my lips. Same as you, everything between this guy and me was perfect! I never felt so connected to a person and I am sure that to him a was the same. But whe he saw me with an aoutbreak on my lips, he react avoiding me and changing his behavior. Two night a go, he told me he was not prepared for this. It does not care to him how cool this relationship was and I am not blaming him, his fear and ignorance about this was bigger than us, just that. As far as I know, is not genital my case. To be honest, I was so used to the virus and never gave it no anybody, that never though it was necessary to say it. Of course the risk was always there but m8 ex boyfriends (all of them!) they eventually knew it and accepted me very well. But not this time. What I am trying to say is thatthis is not as bad as people think and there is a lot of stigma out there! Prople are soooo ignorant about this. They prefer to kiss a person with mucus in the mount because a flu but they do not want to kiss you even when you do not have an an outbreak? What is wrong with them? (Notice that both virus are contagious and have no cure) If I have herpes type 1 and is less contagious than a flu and everybody are used to it, why should I tell everybody that I have it if I do not have symptoms? Does anybody out there says: "hey I need to tell you that I have the virus of the flu" Before be in a relationship with someone? No! And is because people are used to it! Herpes is so common! People need to get over it and move on from the ignorance, is their problem, not ours. Honestly, I never expected that discrimination was going to happen to me. And you know what? They can go to hell. I considered myself pretty, successful, with good feelings, never irresponsible about my health and I can make a man very happy if they let me. You do not need to tell anybody you have it, as long you are responsible about it, I do not know what type of herpes do you have (I am assuming that type 2 maybe). On the other hand, if you decided to tell someone, tell it since the day one and not waste your time, believe me if they are interested in you, are going to accept you in any way. I would accept this guy who reject me even if he would told me he had HIV. No problem, I though it was worthy. See? If someone is really interested in you, it will help you and never make you feel bad about it, if is not the case, is one less on your check list and move one as soon as you can. In my experience, I am looking that he is going in that direction. If you want to stay a little bit, do not chase him or even try to talk to him to see what is happening, I think you already know that this is not a good sign. Give time, be brave and believe me that there are people out there that will love you no matter what, good luck.

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Hi everyone! As far as I know, I only hava herpes type 1 and only around my lips. But searching on internet I found there are condoms with antiviral gel included against HIV, Herpes, and HPV, which I find it very interesting. Here the link: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/ansell-introduces-worlds-first-antiviral-condom-to-canadian-market-619131094.html Question, did any of you guys tried this before? How was your experience? Anybody have any more information about this? Cheers!