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aquachickola

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dealing with HPV diagnosis
Posted: 05-29-08 21:34pm

I have HPV (the cancer kind, not the wart kind). I finally got used to the idea, and found out i have herpes type II. I thought I had a yeast infection, and was so caught off gaurd. Anyway, i get outbreaks monthly, and everytime I feel worthless, ugly, like noone can love me. I have a boyfriend (and we are pretty sure he gave it to me without knowing). He's loving and veyr supportive, but I'm scared to death of losing him, because I feel like noone will want me ever again. I feel dirty. I hate everything about being female, everything about sex, everything about myself when i have an outbreak. I'm pretty close to feeling like that anyway, but when i'm having an outbreak it's worse. to the people who have had this for a while, how do you deal? I dont know if i can do this forever... I want this to be like HPV, and will just go away eventualy. It makes me feel filthy to know that I'm going to be old and in dipers in some nursinghome having outbreaks.

How do you all deal? I really need advice.
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Dr. Nikola

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Posted: 06-03-08 02:52am

HPV may be overcome by the immune system but HSV can't be. HSV has ability to stay hidden in the sensitive nerve ganglia until next outbreak. You can take Acyclovir orally 5 x 200mg for 5 days to make the outbreaks easier and shorter. Local therapy is not efficient for genital herpes. Because you have outbreaks every month you can also try long term preventive therapy with Acyclovir 2 x 400mg every day for 6 months. You can consult some dermatovenerologist about this.
You should be also very concerned about that "cancer type" of HPV. You should perform PAP-test every year to prevent cervical cancer.
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