Thank god for this page. It has been exactly 1month and 1week since I was diagnosed with Herpes. There are good days and there are bad days. I must admit I almost didn't post out of fear that someone might find out about my herpes infection, but it mattered more that someone might need to hear my story, as much as I needed to hear others on the day I was diagnosed. When  the doctor told me I had Herpes I thought I would pass out. My heart started to race and all the blood rushed to my head, my legs got weak. It took me a while to pull it together and make it out of the doctors office. I took alot to make it home without breaking down. When I finally made it home I  closed the door behinde me and layed down right there in the floor. I laid there and cried for about an hour and a half. Then I picked myself up went to bed and cried for the rest of the night. At about 2am I found my self staring at the celling . It was then that I logged on to the internet and found this site. I read others stories and they helped me to see that I was not alone. There are many other people who have Herpes besides me. As the days go by and I do more reasearch, and self discovery I now know that having herpes dosent make a digusting undisireable person . In fact I am the same Beatiful smart funny attractive person I was before being diagnosed. Nothing has changed except now I must be more careful not to spread this disease. My family still loves me, and they don't treat me any different. I was in a relationship before being diagnosed and I am still in the same relationship. Fortunatly he was very understanding ( which I didn't think he would be) I thought he would leave me but to my suprise he has stuck by my side. There are good days for me , and there are bad ones but I know the bads ones won't last forever, and they aren't as bad as they were in the begining so keep your head up. I know it probobly doesn't seem like it now but there is a light at the end of the tunnel take it from some one who didn't see it at first either. IT DOES GET BETTER :)