Personal Perspectives
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“So much for me thinking I was being safe . . .”
Can you imagine being careful about choosing your sexual partners all your life to find out at 40 that you have herpes, more specifically HSV-1?…
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“When she shared her story with me I cried. For once in my life I felt like I was not alone…”
I contracted the herpes virus when I was a little girl, and would get blisters on my mouth all the time. As a child I…
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“I am still learning how this disease fits into my life and how to manage . . .”
When I was diagnosed with herpes, a year and a half ago, I was devastated. I screamed, cried and called out of work few a…
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“I don’t go through a single day without thinking about all of it.”
About five years ago, I was raped multiple times by a guy I was dating. It was my first relationship and I was young and…
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“Telling a prospective sex partner about your disease separates the grain from the chaff . . .”
How much has herpes cost me financially and emotionally? 30 years ago, I was a new divorcee enjoying my new sexual freedom. Did I have…
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“I know I am stronger and can overcome this . . .”
I was finally diagnosed with herpes summer 2012, even though I had my first outbreak in July 2011. My doctor at the time didn’t test…
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“I still have not come to terms with it.”
I was diagnosed with herpes two years ago when I was 24. I knew that’s what it was before the doctor even swabbed me. I…
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“No one wants to suffer from the stigma, and it’s the stigma we need to fight.”
I have had HSV-1 since I was a kid and HSV-2 since I was 19. I am 40 now. After all these years, I have…
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“I unwittingly believed no one my age, and that I knew, could have an STI.”
Recently, I found out I have genital herpes and I’m experiencing my first outbreak. I’m 53 years old, female and a newlywed—married for 6 months.The…
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“My life isn’t over”
I am pregnant, in my third trimester, and I had a vaginal irritation that the doctor originally diagnosed as a yeast infection. Luckily, he followed…
Liyana Parker
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