Many, many years ago I was called in the middle of the night by the younger sister of a good friend who was sure she had just discovered herself with female genital herpes.   After talking to her about the blisters, I too was convinced she had genital herpes (at 21 with zero medical training, what else could it be?!), and I talked to her for over an hour about what it was like to live with female genital herpes.  I felt bad for her because she was just 16 - one year younger than I was when I was diagnosed and I remember being glad that I had already lived through several years of herpes, had already told one two? (who can remember..) people before having sex with them, and had basically … [Read more...]