This young person wanted me to share their story with you.
well… Im 16 and have herpes 2. and heres my story…
I just had a baby and i felt so alone. I meet this guy and he was so amazing. He wanted to be with me even tho i had a kid. this guy made me so happy. we had are fights here and there but in the end we stuck by eachother and worked things out. I went to get my 6 month check up and got a HIV test done. i went back to the doctors 2 weeks later and found out that i didnt have HIV but i ended up with herpes.
Before i had the baby i got tested and didnt have it. so it had to be by the guy i was with. i didnt want to believe it. i wated till the doctor left the room and the moment she closed the door, i cry my heart out. i didnt know what to do. so i wiped off my face and walked out of the room like nothing was wrong. i got in the car with my mom and looked at her and started crying. i told her and she couldnt say a word. We started driving and she started yelling. telling me that i should of listened to her. i felt so small, bc i knew she was right.
i called the guy i was with and told him i need to talk to him, so he said he would stop by. i wait and wait and he never called and never came by. so i went to his house the next day, and told him. He looked so shocked, and i didnt know what to say. he ended up freaking out, then he broke up with me. i felt like getting hit by a bus.
i just wanted my old life back. i look back and think of everything i did, and none of it i was proud of. and now i have to life the rest of my life knowing that i have this. its been about a month and i come to see that this is part of me and i have to life with that. i still wonder want would of happened if i would of never met that guy or if i was smart enough to use protection like my mother told me. but i cant keep looking back i have to move on with my life. and thats want i intend to do.
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SECTION 3. HAZARDS IDENTIFICATION
LABEL PRECAUTIONARY STATEMENTS
IRRITANT
IRRITATING TO EYES, RESPIRATORY SYSTEM AND SKIN.
COMBUSTIBLE LIQUID
READILY ABSORBED THROUGH SKIN.
TARGET ORGAN(S): EYES, SKIN
IN CASE OF CONTACT WITH EYES, RINSE IMMEDIATELY WITH PLENTY OF WATER AND SEEK MEDICAL ADVICE.
WEAR SUITABLE PROTECTIVE CLOTHING.
DO NOT BREATHE VAPOR.
SECTION 4.
FIRST-AID MEASURES
IF SWALLOWED, WASH OUT MOUTH WITH WATER PROVIDED PERSON IS CONSCIOUS.
CALL A PHYSICIAN.
IF INHALED, REMOVE TO FRESH AIR.
IF NOT BREATHING GIVE ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION.
IF BREATHING IS DIFFICULT, GIVE OXYGEN.
IN CASE OF CONTACT, IMMEDIATELY WASH SKIN WITH SOAP AND COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF WATER.
IN CASE OF CONTACT, IMMEDIATELY FLUSH EYES WITH COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF WATER FOR AT LEAST 15 MINUTES.
SECTION 11. TOXICOLOGICAL INFORMATION
ACUTE EFFECTS:
CAUSES SKIN IRRITATION.
READILY ABSORBED THROUGH SKIN.
MAY BE HARMFUL IF ABSORBED THROUGH THE SKIN.
CAUSES EYE IRRITATION.
MATERIAL IS IRRITATING TO MUCOUS MEMBRANES AND UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT.
MAY BE HARMFUL IF INHALED.
MAY BE HARMFUL IF SWALLOWED.
AVOID CONTACT WITH DMSO SOLUTIONS CONTAINING TOXIC MATERIALS OR MATERIALS WITH UNKNOWN TOXICOLOGICAL PROPERTIES.
DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE IS READILY ABSORBED THROUGH SKIN AND MAY CARRY SUCH MATERIALS INTO THE BODY.
CHRONIC EFFECTS and TARGET ORGAN(S): EYES, SKIN
TARGET ORGAN DATA
BEHAVIORAL (ALTERED SLEEP TIME)
LUNGS, THORAX OR RESPIRATION (DYSPNAE)
LUNGS, THORAX OR RESPIRATION (CYANOSIS)
GASTROINTESTINAL (NAUSEA OR VOMITING)
LIVER (JAUNDICE, OTHER OR UNCLASSIFIED)
BLOOD (OTHER CHANGES)
EFFECTS ON FERTILITY (PRE-IMPLANTATION MORTALITY)
EFFECTS ON EMBRYO OR FETUS (FETOTOXICITY)
SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENTAL ABNORMALITIES (MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM)
ONLY SELECTED REGISTRY OF TOXIC EFFECTS OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES (RTECS)
DATA IS PRESENTED HERE.
SEE ACTUAL ENTRY IN RTECS FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION.
How does contraception stimulate the economy? How does family planning reduce cost? What is Nancy Pelosi trying to say? Is it me OR did she just fumble over her words?
It is almost as if she is saying that if we pour billions into Planned Parenthood and contraception that we will reduce cost because more and more human beings will be killed?
Oh, so the answer to reducing cost is to make sure we continue pouring billions into the abortion industry so that human beings can be kept from reaching their full potential?
I don’t think that we need to be pouring resources into funding abortions OR contraception. Family planning is about education and making smart choices.
If the government wants to put money into something then why don’t they put it into providing accurate STD testing to include all STDS and not just the ones that are easy to test for?
Instead of providing funds to kill human beings, why don’t they help to provide solutions that will save lives and keep America healthy? If they want to do something good, why don’t they provide ways to make it easier for couples to adopt these unwanted children?
Please have lost their jobs and they want to give money to the Abortion Industry… hmm.. that makes a lot of sense! (sarcasm)
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I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee who is currently conducting research about the experiences of heterosexual women (ages 18-30) with genital herpes.
My intention is to use the information to help develop better ways for health providers to help women with herpes.
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Please visit my website for more information about requirements for participation and for a link to the survey.
Thank you for your help with this important research!
I’ve been working on a couple of updates and wanted to share them with you. Usually what that requires is me getting caught up on all of my e-mails, adding new stuff to the site, and getting new projects implemented. So here is some fun stuff I hope y’all will enjoy!!!
1.) We have a Brand NEW H Pal. Her name is Dianne and she’s representing the great state of Louisiana.
3.) Recently folks have written in and have some strong opinions about my site, dmso, and abreva. So I’ve taken the liberty to record those comments so you can see what others have to say about it. Feel free to chime in and I will be happy to post your thoughts on all of that too. I am proud to say that we have more positive feedback, than negative, when it comes to my site yoshi2me.com, and for that I am grateful.
4.) I saved the best for last. We now have a Photo V.I.P. Room | Show Us Your Happy Face forum over on the Shut Up N Post! STD Message board. What is that you ask? Well, that is a V.I.P. Member only forum where people can send me their photos to have posted in there. The only way you can gain access is to post your photo. Once you have me post your photo, you can get in. The pictures are private, the search engines will not index them, and nobody but the V.I.P.’s can see them. What a great way to get to know each other on a more personal level. All you singles out there not only have a place to post your personal add, but now you can be a V.I.P. and share your picture without having to worry about it getting out. You can also have your photos removed at any time. See the Message Board for additional details.
That’s all I have for now. I hope everybody is doing well. Feel free to share this note with those that you think may find it beneficial. Have a Great Weekend!! – Angela
Thanks again for your support during this time. I’ve since found out that the tests came back negative. The mystery still abounds as to what is actually going on with my vagina so, I’m off to the gyno as soon as possible.
Reading everyone’s stories was invaluable. I think everyone [whether infected or not!] should be sent to your site to read and educate themselves more fully on the stigma, the reality and the lives of those who live with this disease. I take my hat off to all of you who are surviving, living and loving. And as I’ve learned a lot more about myself during this time of waiting and not knowing, I’ve come to appreciate life a little better. As well as to be much more discerning with my relationships and be more trusting of my intuition.
Thank you SO much again. I was fully prepared for the news this afternoon so when my doctor told me I was “all-clear” you could’ve knocked me over with a feather, such was my belief that it was herpes. I am armed with so much information and aim to protect myself, no matter what and am very happy to read those stories of people who have found love and are living their lives to the fullest. My fear of this disease is minimal and the knowledge that there are 1 in 4 people living with herpes says a lot.
Happy 2009! Is there any way I can serve the herpes community? Any donation I can make? Best wishes, – K
K asked me how she could help. Her feedback touched me so much that I asked her if it would be ok to share it with you, my readers. She agreed.
If my site has helped even one person out there who that that their life was over because of a herpes diagnosis, I hope that you now have hope.
To start from the beginning in August 2007 I moved away from home to go to college and live on my own. I was meeting lots of people making new friends and life was awesome.
I began dating a guy in September, I thought he was really great but by the end of the month I had decided to break it off. Three weeks later I noticed some sores and was in a ton of pain. I started doing some research online and came to the conclusion that it could possibly be herpes.
I went to my doctor and she told me I just had a couple of ingrown hairs. Well I had wanted it to not be herpes so bad I believed it. In January I had another ingrown hair episode, it was in the same spot and had the same symptoms as the last one. Well… at this point I knew it wasn’t ingrown hairs. I started doing research again and came to my own conclusion that it was herpes.
I made a doctors appointment with another doctor to have the HSV blood test done and two days later my world was turned upside down. I was HSV2 positive. I thought life as I knew it was over.
I found during my search for information and thru Yoshi2me… I also found Hmates. I was quite skeptical at first but I figured I had nothing else to lose, so why not.
After being a member for a couple of weeks I started emailing back and forth with a guy. He was really awesome, he helped me tell my parents and work through some issues I was having. He had been diagnosed a few months before I did with HSV2. We became our own little support system.
After a month of phone calls lasting into the wee hours of the morning and hundreds of emails I took fate into my own hands and flew to spend the weekend with him. We knew after that first weekend we wanted to be together forever and that what we had was the real thing.
My Fairytale came true when I married that man this past July. He is wonderful and loves me for who I am inside and out.
To start from the beginning in August 2007 I moved away from home to go to college and live on my own. I was meeting lots of people making new friends and life was awesome.
