I am 12 and i have herpies. u shud know why. HELP!?!
Question: your not the only one im 15 and have them, and like me i presume you havent reached the stage to be having oral sex etc, you could of got it from kissing some1... family relative... bf/gf... the rubbing of some1s coldsore on your skin. I know it sounds disgusting, but its something we'l have to get over, you will have regular outbreaks, but never as bad as the first one... im in agony at the mo! just go to your doctor and he will check you out and prescribe you something to ease the pain, and to help it stop spreading and invecting. the best thing to do is relax, as stress can trigger it! by the way once you have contracted herpes.. its never leaves, but it is said that it starst to reoccur less frequently and not as bad over time! good luckm and try not to worry!
Answers: your not the only one im 15 and have them, and like me i presume you havent reached the stage to be having oral sex etc, you could of got it from kissing some1... family relative... bf/gf... the rubbing of some1s coldsore on your skin. I know it sounds disgusting, but its something we'l have to get over, you will have regular outbreaks, but never as bad as the first one... im in agony at the mo! just go to your doctor and he will check you out and prescribe you something to ease the pain, and to help it stop spreading and invecting. the best thing to do is relax, as stress can trigger it! by the way once you have contracted herpes.. its never leaves, but it is said that it starst to reoccur less frequently and not as bad over time! good luckm and try not to worry!
HELP? unfortunetly there is nothing you can do about it except take valtrex daily. stay healthy. it helps the outbreaks.
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The only thing you can do now is educate yourself on the disease as much as possible...I'll get you started. Hope this helps!Genital herpes is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by the herpes simplex viruses type 1 (HSV-1) or type 2 (HSV-2). Most genital herpes is caused by HSV-2. Most individuals have no or only minimal signs or symptoms from HSV-1 or HSV-2 infection. When signs do occur, they typically appear as one or more blisters on or around the genitals or rectum. The blisters break, leaving tender ulcers (sores) that may take two to four weeks to heal the first time they occur. Typically, another outbreak can appear weeks or months after the first, but it almost always is less severe and shorter than the first outbreak. Although the infection can stay in the body indefinitely, the number of outbreaks tends to decrease over a period of years.
Results of a nationally representative study show that genital herpes infection is common in the United States. Nationwide, at least 45 million people ages 12 and older, or one out of five adolescents and adults, have had genital HSV infection. Over the past decade, the percent of Americans with genital herpes infection in the U.S. has decreased.
Genital HSV-2 infection is more common in women (approximately one out of four women) than in men (almost one out of eight). This may be due to male-to-female transmission being more likely than female-to-male transmission.
HSV-1 and HSV-2 can be found in and released from the sores that the viruses cause, but they also are released between outbreaks from skin that does not appear to have a sore. Generally, a person can only get HSV-2 infection during sexual contact with someone who has a genital HSV-2 infection. Transmission can occur from an infected partner who does not have a visible sore and may not know that he or she is infected.
HSV-1 can cause genital herpes, but it more commonly causes infections of the mouth and lips, so-called