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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
Depends on the person. Some people generally carry the virus asymptomatically and have occassional flare ups that are relatively easy to manage. Others flare up more often and more severely. My understanding about this particular case was that the flareup was pretty awful. Around the area of her crotch, throughout the entire external and internal vaginal area, on the cervix. Very painful, very persistant, and more flareups than my friend commenly sees in herpes cases. Women tend to get worse cases then men. I know someone who claims that she can control her outbreaks via her diet, but I don't know if there's clinical evidence of effacacy.
Weird that I was taught all about abortion, when it wasn't even legal at the time.
Weird that I was taught all about abortion, when it wasn't even legal at the time.
Medscape article on herpes simplex. Sounds pretty awful. |
It seems like my sex-ed was pretty comprehensive, but younger people that I talk to these days got next to nothing. Did my generation get well-educated because of the AIDs crisis of the early-to mid-80s? When the 90s came, did everyone think that the crisis was over and it was fine to revert back to ignorance? I didn't have sex until I was 15, but I knew all about AIDs, herpes, gonorhea, syphilis, chlamydia, abortion and birthcontrol thanks to school sex-ed when I starting having it. Maybe it was just because I was in Canada.
