vincit Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Once you have herpes, the virus will stay in your system and you will only prevent it from being activated. The good news is vaccines have been discovered, but this is supposed to prevent the infection only in new patients. Indeed, many people wonder whether it is possible to eliminate outbreaks altogether. Logically, it should be possible to achieve this. The reason is that there are treatments available, both natural and anti-viral, which successfully treat the active virus....:rolleyes Link to post Share on other sites
sweet sugar Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Oh my gosh, I am so happy I have never had a cold sore. So you already HAVE herpes! God forbid you EVER kiss someone or go down on her, EVER, because you CAN transmit herpes (HSV 1 or 2) without hvig an active sore. Applying your own standards, no one should ever date you. Does that sound fair or reasonable to you? It astounds me when people think they're "better than" when they have the same virus and can just as easily transmit it to their partners' genitals. You can even get it from yourself! You have a cold sore... You kiss her... Virus is now all over her mouth... and then she goes down on you. And BAM! You now have herpes on your genitals. Link to post Share on other sites
paddington bear Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 A female friend of mine has herpes,...and yes got it from the cold sore...and like cold sores, gets an outbreak only periodically and is usually brought on by stress. As far as I know, just like people who have cold sores, you kind of know you are getting it. And she just doesn't have sex in those times. It's quite common unfortunately, so I guess it is all down to how much you trust your partner to tell you when an outbreak is coming/there. Link to post Share on other sites
ecm Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 No, I have not brought it up with him yet but I will sooner than later. As for the FB conversation and the context, his brother is a pharmacist in lives out of town, they were chatting and one of the lines was that, ****, bf had to "renew his Valtrex prescription". No mention of me, no mention of mentioning it to me. Nada. There have been some excellent points here and I thank everyone for their input. But I don't think I want the risk of lesions or warts on my yin-yang, now or in the future. I've never had cold sores in my life and I don't want those either. I don't want syphillis either, or gonoreah (sp), or HIV or crabs, or whatever. I'm sorry if that makes me narrow-minded or selfish, but I'm responsible for my health. I really don't believe anyone needs to compromise on anything for their personal health. Let's say I do contract it from bf and 5 years from now, we break up, dating becomes even more difficult afterwards with future potential bfs. So, truthfully, not sure this is going to go any further. Maybe just stay friends and that's it. PENCIL- I truuuuuly hate to chime in and disrupt all of this frantic googling , but if all he menitoned was "valtrex", he could very well have shingles. (as Valtrex is prescribed to treat Shingles too) Perhaps google it before one of these people blows a blood vessel in their brain? Link to post Share on other sites
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