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Saturday, January 24, 2009
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I was diagnosed with genital herpes about a month ago. My boyfriend of four years and I had just broken up. I slept with two different guys in the first month. I made both of the boys use condoms. I then slept with my ex but we didn't use a condom. Two days after we had sex I noticed that it started ...
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    Anonymous
    Monday, May 04, 2009 at 11:46 PM

    The exact same thing happened to me, boyfriend of 2 yrs, we broke up for 2 weeks and he slept with someone else with. Then him and I got back together, had lots of makeup sex. I thought I was getting a bacterial infection at first from having sex so much. He noticed a little lesion, then 2 days later after being itchy and red for 2 days, I got some sores. We went to the doctor and he said we most likely have herpes (test results pending, altho its very obvious) Today has been the 5th days since the start of my breakout and its almost completely gone, the DR started me on Valtrex... Me and my boyfriend are still together and I am struggling with the diagnosis, its hard to think I am going to live with this terrible virus for the rest of my life!

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There are two types of HSV, HSV type 1 and 2, and both can cause genital herpes.

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