I have HERPES!!! (Read 910 times)

zoom-zoom

Fanatic #3965

posted: 3/13/2007 at 6:54 AM

That's kind of what I was thinking, too. I had very mild chicken pox as a kid, as well. Here's something interesting I learned last night. Apparently my younger brother had something last Fall that my mom and I are pretty certain was shingles, by the sound of things. His symptoms were similar to mine, only with less itching and more pain. His also never ruptured and followed a similar course. Maybe there's something genetic...? k

Kirsten

'07: 1324.5 | '08: 1561 | '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike | '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike | '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike '12: 659.9 run ~ 3365.6 bike (100% benched by ortho last 4.5 weeks while in long-arm cast)

'13 Goals:

• DON'T BREAK ANYTHING!!!

• get within 5#s of 130#s (and stay there, gotdammit!)

• 1st olympic distance duathlon

• 1st Iceman Cometh mtn bike race

• Half Fanatic

• punch Type 1 in the junk

Schadenfreude

posted: 3/14/2007 at 2:11 PM

Quote from zoom-zoom on 3/8/2007 at 6:13 PM:

No...not THAT kind of herpes...I'm a good girl. Git yer heads outta the gutter, already!

I know this doesn't have anything to do with the main subject...but anyone can get herpes. Not just "bad, dirty" people. Undecided

50-80 % of the population has oral herpes, and 25% of americans have genital...and even then, a lot of people don't even know they have it as they've never had an outbreak or it's a mild case and symptoms aren't noticed. I don't have it myself, but I do have a friend who contracted it after a boyfriend who didn't know he had it himself gave it to her. She has had very, very few partners, and is always monogamous. She is a good girl.