Friday, December 19, 2008
As an expert on the site I frequently answer questions about herpes. Quite often I will refer the person to a particular area on the site, so they can read up and get a full understanding of the many details that are involved in answering their posted question- in fact, that ...
Talking about complications from Herpes, here's one. I contract herpes in the early fall of 2007. I started getting REALLY sick. Fatigue, fibromyalgia symptoms, severe dry mouth, joint pain, and a host of other unpleasant symptoms. I didn't know I had herpes at that point. In Decmeber of 2008 the doctors found out I have Sjogren's and possibly RA. In February 2009 I found out I had herpes II. The auto immune symptoms started pretty quickly after I was exposed to the herpes and way before my diagnosis. All my doctors feel that the herpes virus "fired off" the auto immune problem. They feel that when I contracted the herpes virus my body went into attack mode and then started attacking my own body. I now feel really rotten all the time, have to deal with the occassional outbreak and the auto immune problem rages on. Herpes II is a serious ailment. Everyone needs to be so honest cause even if your Herpes outbreaks are more of nuisance than a real "sickness" for some people it can be really serious.