When Should You Actually Get Tested for Herpes? The honest answer is that you are probably going to test too early, get a result that cannot answer your question, and spend the following weeks believing something that is not yet true. I want to save you from that if I...
Your Herpes Test Results Do Not Say What You Think They Say You got a number back and a word. Nobody explained either one. Maybe the word was “positive.” Maybe it was “exposed,” which is worse, and I will come to why. Maybe there was a number...
The conversation most people with herpes dread is not actually the conversation they need to be having. The standard advice — the version you will find on every herpes forum and in every well-meaning article — frames “The Talk” as a confession. You have...
There is a lot of misinformation circulating about the risk of herpes during pregnancy, and much of it is designed to frighten women into unnecessary caesarean sections. Let me set the record straight. If you have herpes and you are pregnant or planning to become...
I am going to say something that will make some doctors uncomfortable. Antiviral drugs — Valtrex, acyclovir, famciclovir — are presented to most people with herpes as the primary, and often the only, meaningful response to their diagnosis. They are prescribed widely,... 