Anyone here ever get Herpes?

[Titty Meat]

You still have sex?

[Fairplay]

No one at CP has Herpes.

[Mennonite]

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

I've taken to keeping on my boxer briefs and pulling my dick through the hole (while wearing a condom, of course) in order to avoid catching the herp.

I'm not sure if it helps but I don't think it hurts..

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Bowser

Yeah, it sucks. Wearing a condom already takes so much of the sensation away. This method makes it even worse..

But I'm scared like shit to get herpes. Just don't want to deal with the stigma.

[Why Not?]

Originally Posted by Mennonite

Nice pull ! Great movie!

[cmh6476]

ThaVirus fitting name is fitting.

[Saccopoo]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

If you don't have an active outbreak, you're not going to know sans blood test.

There are tons of bugs that people have that the immune system keeps in check.

If you have a cat, you're almost guaranteed to have toxoplasmosis. The vast majority of Americans have CMV.

If you had chickenpox when you're a kid, the virus exists in its latent stage in the dorsal root ganglia of your brain, and if you're unlucky, will reactivate and give you shingles later in life.

It's actually nearly guaranteed that you'll have shingles later in life. I think it's somewhere around 75% of all people 80 and over will get shingles.

As well, because of the immunizations that kids now get against chicken pox, the virus isn't being circulated in the general population like it used to and your body's resistance to the virus starts to drop. That's why there are more and more people in their 20's, 30's and 40's who are now getting shingles where they didn't see it until people got into their 60's, 70's and 80's when their resistance to the virus was lowered because of a naturally weakening immune system.

However, once you get shingles, your immune system gets a boost on it's resistance to the virus and you'll likely never get it again.

I know.

I got chicken pox p.II this summer.

[Saccopoo]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

Yeah, it sucks. Wearing a condom already takes so much of the sensation away. This method makes it even worse..

But I'm scared like shit to get herpes. Just don't want to deal with the stigma.

You know, there's a really cool strain of incurable gonorrhea that's going around right now.

You think herpes is bad? Try having an incurable case of the clap.

Researchers found that nine of the 133 patients with gonorrhea who were treated at a Toronto clinic still had the disease after being treated with the oral antibiotic cephalosporins. This marks the first time that cephalosporin-resistant gonorrhea has been found on the continent.

"We've heard of such cases in Asia and Europe. Now it's happening in North America," Dr. Robert Kirkcaldy, medical epidemiologist in the Division of STD Prevention at CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, said to NPR. "It's very concerning."

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria. It can be spread through contact with the mouth, vagina, penis or anus and thrives in warm, moist areas of the body.

Symptoms in men include burning and pain while urinating, increased urinary frequency or urgency, penis discharge, red or swollen opening of the penis, tender or swollen testicles and/or a sore throat. Women experience vaginal discharge, burning and pain while urinating, increased urination, sore throat, painful sexual intercourse, pain in the lower abdomen and fever. Arthritis-like symptoms and rashes can occur if the infection has spread in to the blood stream.

An antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhea—now considered a superbug—has some analysts saying that the bacteria’s effects could match those of AIDS.

“This might be a lot worse than AIDS in the short run because the bacteria is more aggressive and will affect more people quickly,” said Alan Christianson, a doctor of naturopathic medicine.

Even though nearly 30 million people have died from AIDS related causes worldwide, Christianson believes the effect of the gonorrhea bacteria is more direct.

“Getting gonorrhea from this strain might put someone into septic shock and death in a matter of days,” Christianson said. “This is very dangerous.”

“It’s an emergency situation,” said William Smith, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Directors. “As time moves on, it’s getting more hazardous.”

This gonorrhea strain, HO41, was discovered in Japan two years ago in a 31-year-old female sex worker who had been screened in 2009.

The bacteria has since been found in Hawaii, California and Norway.

Because it resists current antibiotic treatment, the strain has been placed in the superbug category with other resistant bacteria, such as MRSA and CRE.

These superbugs kill about half the people they attack, and nearly one in 20 hospital patients become infected with one, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

[lewdog]

Obligatory.....

"Nah, I don't have herpes anymore.....I gave it to your mom!"

[Pepe Silvia]

No, been lucky knock wood.

[Don Corlemahomes]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

If you had chickenpox when you're a kid, the virus exists in its latent stage in the dorsal root ganglia of your brain, and if you're unlucky, will reactivate and give you shingles later in life.

Dorsal root ganglia in spinal cord.

[Don Corlemahomes]

Originally Posted by SPATCH

Which is also where the mouth herpes virus hangs out between outbreaks.

No. Dorsal root ganglia of the trigeminal nerve.

[Dayze]

note ; "Dorsal Root" is also what I refer to my penis as. Well, that, and "The Executive Branch"

[Don Corlemahomes]

Originally Posted by Saccopoo

It's actually nearly guaranteed that you'll have shingles later in life. I think it's somewhere around 75% of all people 80 and over will get shingles.

There's a vaccine. I don't know how effective it is, but it has to be more effective than that for it to be recommended.

[SPATCH]

Originally Posted by Cunning Linguist

No. Dorsal root ganglia of the trigeminal nerve.

You are very smart.