Life With Herpes

Yes, of course you can. But before you hit the sheets with your partner let's talk about some details first.

One of the biggest fears or thoughts are about having sex when you've been diagnosed with herpes is that you'll have to use a condom for the rest of your life.

Our biggest fear, once we're diagnosed, is dating. It's the fear of rejection, it's the how do I disclose, do I need to disclose and so on. All of these feelings questions and emotions are valid and an important part of the herpes journey.

So yes, there are some things you can do to help manage your herpes outbreaks and/or feed your herpes outbreak. In other blog posts I talk about lifestyle, supplements and why people get outbreaks. So today I'm going to talk about foods that feed outbreaks and why.

Why me? This is something I asked myself for years. I would sit crying wondering why this happened to me. What did I do to deserve this? I couldn't think of anything worse than getting diagnosed with herpes.

This is something that I felt was so important to put together and I really wish it was something that I could have walked away with when I was diagnosed. I wish that Dr. would have said, "there is this great online community called Life with Herpes and there is an Outbreak Toolkit that has everything you need to know about herpes."

If your first outbreak was anything like mine you're wondering like me: how people could not know they had herpes or at least something going on down there.

Recently on social media someone commented on my live and said that if I hadn't been so promiscuous I wouldn't have gotten herpes.

There's a lot of ways we can dissect this comment. Also, instead of going off on this man, I used it as a learning opportunity to talk about how promiscuity has nothing to do with.

This especially happens when you are first diagnosed with herpes. You hang up the phone from your doctor and then are like now what. Who do I talk to? What do I do? The worst thing is to start googling herpes and looking at the pictures. Eek! And then the second worse thing is to sit in your worry and let it consume you.

I just opened up my schedule and added more days. I'm here for you Monday - Thursday.

The herpes test is not included in the STI panel. So even if you're a responsible sexually active adult and you ask your doctor for every STI test, most likely herpes will not be included in the herpes test.

Not including the herpes test on the STI panel is part of the problem on why there are so many people getting herpes, why so many people don't know they have it and why we have a huge ugly stigma around people who have herpes.

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In case you don't know it, I'm married and my husband does not have herpes!

This comes as a shock to a lot of people. I don't think it's the married part but the part that my husband doesn't have herpes.