HERPES

Talk About Herpes | Mild Outbreaks

Age: 41
Married: N
City: Portland
State: OR
Country: USA
Experience…
Found out that my fiancé had HSV2 some time after we began seeing each other, and felt lucky that I never seemed to have contracted the virus. What I thought were simple ingrown hairs or clogged sweat glands on my thighs turned out to be mild outbreaks of the virus.

I had been utterly symptom free for years, but recently had an outbreak-also on my thigh- that confirmed that I had indeed contracted the virus. I wish now that we had been better aware of the situation, and I have to deal with future possible relationships with the knowledge that I could be hurting someone during what should be close and intimate contact-even if I am being careful and not being active during any symptomatic outbreaks.

I also have to have the painful, albeit oddly so, responsibility of sharing this stigmatized information with anyone who I want to become involved with.

Gender: M
Age: 41
City: Portland
State: OR
Country: USA

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