living with STD- Gental Herpes

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Herpes Resource Center - Myths vs. Facts - herpes, genital herpes, cold sores, herpes simplex, type 1, type 2, myths, facts, cold sores, toilet seats, symptoms, asymptomatic shedding, viral shedding, HIV
Here's a resource for most if not all the questions about herpes.

What is most important is for those people who have it, can go about with an active sex life, meet fun and interesting partners and with education feel comfortable in being that source to educate your partner of the disease. The choice to be a sexual partner is up to the other person who now has all the knowledge you have entrusted in them to make that choice.

I you become good friends, as you don't need to be sexual partners to be friends, he/she might have a friend who may have gh, they may be a good reference for an encounter with them. They (the friends friend) may be going through the same thing as you and together things will happen. You may be surprised who has it and are suffering in silence. Please don't feel you have to.
 

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What's the difference between GH and herpes? I was at my dermatologist a while back with a small rash on the forearm. He just casually said it was herpes and prescribed a cream for it. When I asked about it he said it is carried by most men and can be easily brought on by stress and anxiety. Since I was REALLY stressing about the move back to the US I figured, and he did too, that that was it. I used the cream and it went away. He did say not to engage in sex while it was present however. I've only seen it once since then but much smaller and now I can't say that was actually it again.

GH is genital herpes while herpes is...herpes. There are different types. If you have cold sores you have herpes. It can also affect the hands (herpes whitlow), the eyes (Herpes Simplex Keratitis) and such.
He probably didn't tell you not to engage in sex because he couldn't imagine you'd be using your arm in a sexual way. I am surprised he diagnosed it as herpes by just looking at it though? Did he actually get some samples or the area to be tested before the diagnosis?
 

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GH is genital herpes while herpes is...herpes. There are different types. If you have cold sores you have herpes. It can also affect the hands (herpes whitlow), the eyes (Herpes Simplex Keratitis) and such.
He probably didn't tell you not to engage in sex because he couldn't imagine you'd be using your arm in a sexual way. I am surprised he diagnosed it as herpes by just looking at it though? Did he actually get some samples or the area to be tested before the diagnosis?

Strangely, no he didn't take samples. He's a professor at the teaching hospital in Prague with a specialty in skin cancers.