PurplePinniped

I can't say that I quite understand your perspective as I've lived with this my entire life. It's not life ending and there's ways to manage symptoms. I would recommend looking into supressive therapy. It helpa keeps your viral shedding down which will help reduce the number and severity of outbreaks. I'd also recommend keeping a cream like Abreva or Releev on you to help manage outbreaks if they do happen.

As someone who got herpes because mom had it and gave birth vaginally, I would advise you to just do a C-section. Given what I've gone through, I don't think it's worth the risk of passing it on to your kid when you can get a C-section and be safe.

I've got HSV-2 as well. I've been dealing with it my entire life. I always keep a little bottle of Releev on me. I find, that for me, it works better than Abreva. It's a little pricey at around 20ish dollars a bottle, but it lasts a really long time and a little goes a long way. You can find it at CVS and Walgreens so there's usually a coupon floating around. If they ever start getting painful, I just place a gentle ice pack on them to help the ouch go away. Other than that, I would recommend that you learn your triggers. Mine are stress and cold so I know to be on the lookout when I get stressed. If I feel a tingle, I can put a little Releev on the area to hopefully avoid an active outbreak.

There is no reason an employer should be asking about your STD status. If they are inquiring or make you undergo an STD screening as part of your pre-employment screening, consider applying elsewhere.

A family friend of mine had a similar problem, where they would break out all over out of nowhere. They had some unresolved issues in their past that once they went to therapy about it cleared up.

Hi all, I recently met a guy that I really like. About a month ago, we had a little movie night date thing; it was during this time that I told him that I have herpes as I feel it's fair for him to know this if he wants to persue a relationship with me. He went to talk to his doctor and parents about this and all of them said it was no big deal and that he should just go for it. I've gotten on supressive therapy to help him feel more at ease. Since then, he's been flirty but always puts the disclaimers that what he wants to do and what he will do could be different things. It's hard to talk to him and our little movie date nights have started to feel worse as I feel this constant cloud of potential rejection about wether or not he can move past "the condition" as he puts it. Especially since he's said he probably wouldn't want me over if I had an outbreak in my mouth, which I told him I rarely ever get. Does anybody have any advice on how to deal with this?