Hello everyone,
I've been lurking for a few weeks on your site and arming myself with great information about this disease. I decided to finally get tested when the onset of my menses I had a small raw area and small cut near my peri area. I remember seeing something like this way back in 1997 while a freshman in college. I went to the nurse who just brushed it off as a little hive rash and I in my mind swept it off as that as well because I believed her. Even when it would it appear maybe one or twice a year I would always go back to what that nurse said.
Eventually I totally forgot about it because up until last week it had been over 5 years since I had a incident such as this. I've just entered a new relationship and it dawned on me from reading and being more educated that I could have the virus.
At this moment I'm very afraid of being rejected ( I told him the possibility) and feel stupid for in a since keeping my head in the sand. To be honest if I was diagnosed then I think I would have suffered a mental breakdown but I'm much stronger now.
I'm negative for H1 but had a value of 9.78 for H-2. Don't know if that correlates with what I experienced in 1997.
Thanks for listening.