Brief Overview of HSV-2 and My Experiences

HSV-2 stands for Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2. You will most likely see it referred to as Genital Herpes. This virus affects both women and men and irritates the person who has it by creating sores on the skin around the anus and genitals. Because it is a virus, it cannot be treated with antibiotics.

People often report that they saw blisters begin to spring up around a week after they've been infected. HSV-2 is a sexually transmitted disease that is known to not cause a lot of people any serious symptoms. Most people brush it off as a common cold sore or something like that. That's actually how my case began. I ignored the sores around my genitals for about a month and a half before finally getting to a doctor. I didn't think it was anything serious to begin with.

I was informed shortly after by my doctor that I definitely had HSV-2 and that my lack of symptoms experience was due to how the virus works.

The disease is mostly passed on from person to person via sex. Skin to skin contact will do the trick. That is how I ended up with this STD. On the positive side, I'm glad my symptoms were manageable and not too severe; it could have been much worse. Another positive note is that I found the closest thing to a cure which I will share with you in the next post.

If you are highly sexually active, menstruating, or very stressed out, you will begin to feel the virus' presence more and more as the symptoms will start to arise.

In my case, the sores spread throughout my penis (which yes, scared me quite a bit and was why I decided to see my physician). Others often experience them on their butt, anus, or vagina.

That's a very, very simple overview of what this virus is and why you get it. Sadly, you cannot ever completely rid yourself of it, but there is a remedy I found which worked for me. It has great reviews as well so I am hoping it will work for the majority of my readers as well.