All About STDs From Someone With An STD
Recently, I had a written exchange with a reader about blood testing for HSV1/HSV2. In my STD Interview, I mention not having taken a blood test to determine which strain of HSV I’m living with. Diagnosed 14 years ago at the family doctor’s office, with a very obvious genital outbreak, a blood test was neither [...]
Thanks to our most recent anonymous submission to the STD Interviews, we now have a male’s perspective about what it’s like to live with herpes – HSV2, in particular. While there are certainly similarities across all STD diagnosis and between sexes, my experience has often found some of the initial feelings and on-going struggles to [...]
From New York to Brazil, Washington to Australia, living with an STD poses similar challenges across the globe. This interviewee sent in her answers with an enthusiastic offer to help The STD Project and it’s mission to eradicate stigma after experiencing STD stigma in the medical sector. As such, one could easily get discouraged. Instead, [...]
This was an anonymous submission via the contact form. I found this interview incredibly interesting as it reflects a lot of the feelings one initially experiences upon learning they have contracted an STD, yet, for this individual, some of those same emotions prevail even 28 years later. Living with an STD is different for everyone [...]
Living with herpes is not easy – heck, contracting or living with any STD/STI is not easy. It’s that simple; it’s tough. Despite the large portion of positive messages I write on The STD Project, there’s no way around how one feels in the first days, months, or even years after contracting an STD. As [...]
There are 3 different kinds of STDs: bacterial, viral, and parasitic. Like bacterial STDs, viral STDs/STIs often give no warning signs or symptoms. This means you can get infected and infect a sexual partner without knowing it and serious complications which can cause irreversible damage can progress silently before you ever recognize a problem. Viral [...]
So far, The STD Project’s spent a lot of time talking about the positive aspects around contracting an STD (See: The Top 5 Reasons Living With an STD Has Positively Influenced My Life, for example), and how it doesn’t have to hinder opportunities and relationships, but to be truly authentic as I’m encouraging all of [...]
Our most recent STD Interview is a submission which addresses living with genital herpes. It’s not easy to share one’s story – and it’s especially difficult to do it openly or with your photo attached. This interviewee wanted to take a stand with us, and she thought ‘coming out’ would be the best way for [...]
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