I’m 3 months into being diagnosed with Herpes and HPV

From the Feedback Form

First off, thank you for the website and work you do. I’m 3 months into being diagnosed with Herpes and HPV and still can’t see much hope sometimes. It’s weird how hit and miss the emotions are.

I have a girlfriend, who is a virgin, and I’ve told her. It was incredibly difficult, but it was actually 2 weeks after I told her when we began dating. There are amazing people. I intend to marry her if she’ll have me, and she knows that too. We will not have sex until we get married either, if that is the case.

I want to know if there are stories of married people with children where one partner has herpes and the other doesn’t, long term. I need to know it can be done, otherwise I don’t know if I can put her at that risk.

I’m also a bit worried about Gardasil regarding the HPV - have you heard much about the adverse reactions?

From Angela aka Yoshi2me

You are more than welcome to check out our Herpes Telling Story if you’d like. The questions were answered by my husband. He answered the questions not too long after I told him that I had genital herpes when we were dating.

We’ve been married for 7 years now and as far as we know, he has not contracted herpes from me.

My 16 year old recently had her first round of the HPV Vaccine. So far all is well and there have been no side effects for her. The shot is a 3 part one and she’ll go back in a couple of months to have round 2 done.

I think they are going to start encouraging that parents have their girls vaccinated before they begin Junior High. I think it’s a good idea and plan to have my now 4 year old and 2 year old vaccinated when they reach that age.