u/L_Librada

I’m anxious and always biting my lips and picking at my face. I guess I self innoculated because I haven’t kissed anyone. Getting small bumps around my nose and inner lip corners. This is a continuation of the hard water bumps and raised hive like bumps on my chin. My face continues to break out in these bumps I can’t think to be anything else but ulcer just not blistering. No puss just clear liquid and a little soreness. Now I notice a tear in my bottom lip.

Has anyone ever spread their HSV to the other oral/genital?

I’m very sad. I was trying to take a week off of meds. And now this spot inside of my lip has appeared and I really don’t remember biting it. Sigh. It’s like things just keep getting worse. I can’t even begin to understand how people got out of this hopeless stage.

I can’t sleep it away eat it away spend it away exercise it away.

What the fuck is happening to me. This is all I can think about all day. I don’t know how to not go crazy with this. The meds are thinning my hair.

I’m not seeing how you guys got to a point of hope. I’d rather be asymptomatic than have to walk around looking like a monster.

I know I’ve been posting a lot I hope you all understand this is very new and very scary. Much love and big hugs

I’ve always been very prone to cleaning my body and face with alcohol, even down there I’ll use a cotton pad and clean with alcohol or peroxide. I’ve kept a very pretty kitty and etc. but I know these sores or breakouts need to dry out

I’ve read against using rubbing alcohol, because of burning or stinging. It hasn’t burned or stung me so far. What do you guys use topically to treat outbreaks? Since I may now have it on my face and mouth… I’d love any recommendations.

I have gshv2

Today I did a lip scrub and it was opened lid off so it surely had bacteria in it- before that I didn’t notice this spot on the corners of my mouth.

Now I’m sitting at my desk and notice I had the tiniest little bumps. Super tiny like the ones you get on your chin but noticeable enough because they’re on the corners of my mouth. I popped one of them, maybe like 3 snot touching. It became a raised patch - irritated form my nails picking. Now I notice a little patch on the other side. No bumps just can see a little raised but not as prevalent at all.

What are the odds I transferred my gshv2 to my mouth? I’m sorry but I …think this being on my face in that way would really send me over the edge.

I’m gonna take my antiviral now. But I almost hope it doesn’t effect it because would that mean I did transfer gshv2 to my mouth? For fucks sake. I’m trying every day to be okay with this disease.

Has anyone ever self inoculated their ghsv to their mouth?

Gonna clean it and take my lysine and antivirals.

Clearly, I neeed to go to my doctor again. And possibly test again? I don’t know..

I know how Reddit can be about race so apologies in advance or whatever lol but please do not sully this and respect I want a cultural, personal, and racially informed/experienced perspective on this and be okay with that. It’s not minimizing whatever culture or race you are.

Black people with this, it is an incredibly stigmatized thing in our community.

Please tell me how disclosure went for you or if you did or just have abstained? I’m curious of age, sexual orientation, gender, and what ya said/how you did it?

I hope our day comes I pray a cure comes💛 trying to get through the ideations daily.