Comment on Anon contracts herpes

• PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It works by making ugly sore blisters all over my mouth a couple times a year

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  • Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Huh, either I dont know I have it or I got lucky. Thats crazy. I imagine an STD test would pick up HSV-2 but I wonder if it also picks up the oral variant. Ive never actually noticed any symptoms on myself. This is actually crazy though I didnt know this, I feel like more people should. TIL lol

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    • Opisek@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can totally also be asymptomatic for your whole life and not know it. It is also useful to know that “oral herpes” doesn’t exclusively affect your mouth, and “genital herpes” doesn’t exclusively affect your genitals. Just more often. Both types can appear in both locations. The hypothetical person from the greentext would likely have contracted oral herpes.

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    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I got tested once and the doctor told me testing for herpes is pointless because most everyone has the antibodies in their body due to how common it is. The test gives false positives most of the time.

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    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No one treats for HSV1 ever unless you have a bad active outbreak.

      www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK47447/

      Worldwide, ∼90% of people have one or both viruses. HSV-1 is the more prevalent virus, with 65% of persons in the United States having antibodies to HSV-1 (Xu et al., 2002). The epidemiology in Europe is similar, with at least half of the population seropositive for HSV-1. In the developing world, HSV-1 is almost universal, and usually acquired from intimate contact with family in early childhood

      2/3 of the population UNDER 50 have some form of HSV, but virtually every person autopsied that died over the age of 60 will have HSV-1. It’s THAT common. That’s why they don’t test.

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    • vfsh@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In my experience most standard STD panels will test for HSV-2 but not 1, usually you’d have to special request it

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      • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And even when you ask about it, your doc will probably say that the test isn’t worth doing because of how common HSV is and how inaccurate the test is.

        • source - one of my partners just requested a full STI panel and the doc told her that

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      • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        a full STI screen is for HIV, chlamydia, and gonorrhoea

        blood test - for syphilis, HIV throat swab - for chlamydia and gonorrhoea anal swab - for chlamydia and gonorrhoea urine - for chlamydia and gonorrhoea

        afaik they sometimes tack on general biochemistry (sodium, potassium, etc) to the blood test, as well as some other things like mycoplasma genitalium but these are not standard 3-monthly tests

        afaik it’s very rare to test for HSV at all, for various reasons

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• LOLseas@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  • piqued my curiosity…

  www.merriam-webster.com/…/pique-vs-peak-vs-peek

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah, OP has reached peak curiosity, it’s all downhill from here.

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    • Turret3857@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      i choose this explanation. nothing is or will be as interesting as this question I asked at 3am

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    • LOLseas@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah, well, that’s just like, your opinion, maaaan.

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• angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The important and nastiest part of HSV is some strains cause cervical cancer in women, so men with HSV must take care not to spread something that has the potential to kill their partner. There is a vaccine, but it doesn’t work 100%.

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  • ThoGot@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you sure that you don’t mean HPV?

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    • Saryn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Indeed, the cancer thing applies to women with HPV, a virus that most people have also been affected with (though the vast majority of cases do not lead to cancer which still leaves tens of million of women at risk).

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, yeah, I seem to mess them up - HPV is the one with vaccine, HPS is similar in that it can be a cause of cervical cancer, but the matter is less researched and I don’t know about a vaccine.

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      • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nah, cervical cancer is down to such an extent in the vaccinated cohorts that we can confidently say that it was the HPV causing it. Those vaccinations have been a massive, massive success. Much more than expected by public health scientists.

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  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also throat cancer in men.

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  • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the vaccine is very effective

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