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healthgal
posted 12/29/2008, comments (0)

Herpes Testing

To provide some clarification, since so many of you write to me asking about herpes testing, here's a run down of the current available tests.  They each have limitations, though I indicate which are the most specific.  A doctor will quite often take your history/examine you and then "marry the history/exam findings to the... Read moreChevron
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healthgal
posted 12/22/2008, comments (0)

Herpes Weapons: Safe Sex, Acyclovir and a Extra Dose of Honesty

If there is one resolution I would like to see, it's the commitment to practicing safe sex in 2009.  It is obvious from all the questions being posted on the site that lots of you take chances.  There's the "I won't get it this time," "the odds are with me that one time with no condom can't possibly end with herpes," "I trust this... Read moreChevron
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healthgal
posted 09/25/2008, comment (1)

When Herpes Tests Honesty and Trust

Many of you who read my blog, may also be posting questions to be answered.  As I navigate the questions, an ongoing "difficult issue" I am confronted with, is when someone believes that their spouse has been honest and devoted, they themselves have not had an outside the relationship sexual encounter, and yet suddenly they have... Read moreChevron
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healthgal
posted 07/12/2008, comments (2)

The Truth, The Whole Truth and....

nothing but the truth is what i am going to offer to you today in this blog.  Getting herpes is a bummer - there is no skirting around the issue - but that being said - we also need to be brave enough to state all the facts regarding this virus.  And alot of doctors do dance around some factual statements that need to be said.  I've... Read moreChevron
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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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