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  1. I'm late 40s. Lesbian. Have been with three or four men, but after my mid-20s only women. I'm going crazy trying to figure out where I got this. I have never experienced an "outbreak." BUT!!!! When I was a child, I had lots of "bladder infections." I'm wondering if my doctor back then just assumed they were all bladder infections and simply prescribed me antibiotics without testing my urine to make sure they were actually bladder infections. Back then things were different. People were in denial about sexual abuse. Probably even family doctors wouldn't even DREAM a nine-year-old had contracted hsv2. That said, I don't remember being sexually molested but I had a pretty emotionally traumatic childhood and have blocked out a lot of my past. I recently posed these concerns to my mom and she said my bladder infections were accompanied by fevers, but hsv2 can be accompanied by fevers too. Considering the path of virus--that the initial outbreaks are the worst and then things taper off from there--it seems like these "bladder infections" could actually have been hsv2 outbreaks. Thoughts? P.S. I only got tested because my current gf teased me that my lips peeled a lot. I knew it wasn't hsv1 but sun damage, but I wanted to prove it to her. So for the first, I think, time in my life I asked for an hsv2 test. It came up negative for hsv1 but positive for hsv2. P.P.S. The girlfriend didn't have the greatest reaction when I initially told her. Then she took the test and came back positive for hsv1 and negative for hsv2. Life is weird.
  2. Thank you for your response. You know, I do all the things--in terms of diet--that you're not supposed to do. I practically mainline cacao in powder and chocolate candy form. I use artificial sweeteners like there is no tomorrow--including in my chocolate bars--and drink caffeine daily. Starbucks in a French press, so it's pretty potent. I even take an amino acid supplement every day (I'm vegan and work out) that I mix myself whose recipe calls 75% or so arginine. (The rest is a mix of other amino acids.) I also drink protein powder drinks like every day. All these things are supposed to bring on the outbreaks....yet I have never had one (that I'm aware of). This is a serious W.T.F.
  3. Hi, Yes. IgG was 6-something. Thank you for your response.
  4. I just got HSV-2 diagnosis but have never had symptoms or an outbreak. Can it be living in both places on my body? Or one or the other? (I know the most likely place being the genital area.)
  5. Just diagnosed with HPV-2. Have never had any symptoms. Not a single one. And I'm not young. I assume I got this 30 years ago when I slept a handful of times total with three different males. I've been with women ever since. Can't imagine I got it from them, but perhaps I did. I suspect it may have been the third of the three men as I had an abortion after the second, so Planned Parenthood might have tested me for herpes at that time. (But maybe not.) I guess all this info. is neither here nor there, but I'm shocked and bummed so I'm rambling a bit. Anyway, my IgG was 6.28. Can that be used to say I've had it, say, more than five years? Or is there any rule of thumb we can go by to get an approximate timeframe for the date we contacted this? Lastly, why on God's green earth doesn't the CDC do this test as part of a standard STD panel? The reason it is so prevalent is that people like me risk passing it on to others because we have no clue we have it! I assumed from my friend who had genital herpes that it hurt like hell! Was I ever wrong.
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