Maybe Genital Herpes?? STDs..can anyone help, please?!?!
Question: What sounds more like genital herpes(herpes simplex2):
a flat red sore that is a little sore and kind of wet to the touch and not very big at all but noticable and is on the outside of the vaginal lips
OR
a tiny white bump that is a bit sore and itchy AROUND it and is located on the inside of the vaginal lips
OR
neither???
What do both of the sound like?
Is there a possibility that they aren't STDs??
Please pleasee help...
Answers: What sounds more like genital herpes(herpes simplex2):
a flat red sore that is a little sore and kind of wet to the touch and not very big at all but noticable and is on the outside of the vaginal lips
OR
a tiny white bump that is a bit sore and itchy AROUND it and is located on the inside of the vaginal lips
OR
neither???
What do both of the sound like?
Is there a possibility that they aren't STDs??
Please pleasee help...
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