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tj444 -> RE: Truth and lies (3/30/2014 5:38:44 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Arldaddy
Congrats SubSlut!
Ill add some other info about Herpes seeing as I went though the same thing a few years ago. A partner let me know they tested positive for type 2 and I spent some time worried and getting tested.
Type 1 (oral Cold Sores) is not tested for unless specifically requested. It can also be passed to the genitals via oral sex and is not generally considered an STD.
Type 2 (genital herpes) is not covered in the standard STD panel.
It was not considered an STD until the late 70's early 80's when a drug company ran adds for a treatment.
Because of it's relatively benign nature it has been suggested that a positive result to a test does more psychological damage than the actual virus does to the body.
Type 2 herpes can be oral, meaning you can get type 2 genital herpes in your mouth from oral sex. It presents as a sore throat in most cases and goes diagnosed.
Male Condoms are not as effective in stopping the spread, however female condoms have shown a much higher success rate of stopping the transmission.
In both type1 and type2 the bodies immune system tends to control the virus within the first 7 years stopping the outward symptoms from appearing.
Hope this helps someone.
Two points-
1) the herpes stigma was created/invented by a drug company wanting to create a market for their drug..
2) a person can be tested for herpes and get a false negative, meaning they are told they don't have it when they do..
"So having developed aciclovir, the drug company required a return on investment. But its marketing men had a problem: none of the conditions the drug might be used for required treatment except in extreme cases.
The herpes stigma is born
The answer was to pitch the drug at genital herpes patients. The trick would be to persuade them that the condition was serious enough to warrant expensive drug treatment. A disease-awareness campaign was organised to alert doctors and patients to the benefits of the new drug. The case was made by ‘marketing’ genital herpes so that it acquired the status of an important disease.
The strategy was spectacularly successful. Articles began to appear in newspapers. In the US, herpes became the cover story for Time magazine twice. Anything negative about the condition was highlighted in order to raise public concern. The word ‘incurable’ was harnessed to make genital cold sores seem serious. Rare cases of fetal infection were described as if they posed a threat to every infected pregnant woman. The herpes stigma was born.
Disease-mongering had gone mainstream. The trick had been to market herpes, not aciclovir. Once herpes hit the big time, the success of aciclovir was assured. This echoed the marketing of the antiseptic mouthwash Listerine in the 1920s, which turned a floor cleaner into a cure for ‘chronic halitosis’. In the words of advertising scholar James B Twitchell, ‘Listerine did not make mouthwash as much as it made halitosis’."
"Genital herpes is now accepted as one of the most stigmatised of all medical conditions. A Harris Interactive poll in the US in 2007 found that 39 per cent of patients were troubled by social stigma and 38 per cent made up excuses to avoid sex during an outbreak, rather than tell a partner. Only HIV was ranked higher for stigma, a truly bizarre finding for a virus that is carried by at least three quarters of the population."
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/11041#.Uzi18J0o7IU
This article is interesting in that this female was told yes she has herpes then 4 years later after testing for it she was told she doesn't then told she does...
"Blood tests are the next best, but they’re far from perfect. If you have HSV-2, they’re great—a blood test will only miss about one percent of people with the infection. But HSV-1 blood tests are far less reliable. For starters, many people test positive for HSV-1, since the test isn’t site-specific. Of those who test negative (like I did) 10-15 percent are actually false negatives, which means that the results could say you’re not infected when you are. (As my gynecologist suggested, antibody levels are sometimes undetectable.) By comparison, syphilis, HIV, and hepatitis B have almost no false negatives, Dr. Handsfield said. HSV-1 has probably the highest false-negative rate."
http://thehairpin.com/2013/11/how-i-found-out-i-didnt-have-the-herpes-id-been-living-with-for-four-years
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