{"id":1166,"date":"2022-04-22T11:55:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T15:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herpescureadvocacy.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2022-04-22T11:55:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T15:55:49","slug":"herpes-advocates-nicoles-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herpescureadvocacy.com\/2022\/04\/22\/herpes-advocates-nicoles-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Herpes Advocates: Nicole&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1167\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/herpescureadvocacy.com\/2022\/04\/22\/herpes-advocates-nicoles-story\/pexels-photo-1230665\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/herpescureadvocacy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-photo-1230665.jpeg?fit=1880%2C1253&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1880,1253\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"woman sitting on brown wooden chair beside coconut\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo by Artem Beliaikin on &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/woman-sitting-on-brown-wooden-chair-beside-coconut-1230665\/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pexels.com&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/herpescureadvocacy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-photo-1230665.jpeg?fit=750%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/herpescureadvocacy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/pexels-photo-1230665.jpeg?resize=342%2C227&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1167\" width=\"342\" height=\"227\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi, my name is Nicole and I have always thought of myself as a good person. However, sometimes, life can throw you into a dark corner that you never even dreamed&nbsp;imaginable. My experience with HSV2 has been devastating. I am ashamed that I allowed this to happen to me and I turned around and infected someone who absolutely adores me, who&nbsp;is innocent and didn&#8217;t deserve this curse. Living with HSV2 is extremely taxing, mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually &#8211; it unfortunately&nbsp;impacts every part of my life. I know what it feels like to feel good, confident and clean, no pain, no itching, because prior to being infected with HSV2, I felt this way. I believe a cure&nbsp;must&nbsp;be an option because I cannot imagine living like this for the rest of my life-I just cannot. I struggle at times with severe depression and anxiety. Antivirals only help in a small way, for me to manage outbreaks 50% of the time,&nbsp;if that. I have to take the antivirals daily, without fail, and especially around my menstrual cycle, which triggers outbreaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Years ago, when I first started having symptoms, I sought out clinics &#8211; two different medical clinics as I knew something was wrong with my body &#8211; down there. Both times, I was either given a prescription for a UTI or for a yeast infection. Even the medical professional didn&#8217;t think it was herpes or maybe they didn&#8217;t know that when there is viral shedding it can mimic the appearance of a yeast infection&#8230;I didn&#8217;t know that then, but now I sure do after 13 years of living with HSV-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Living with herpes is like having the joy &amp; happiness taken away from the most precious &amp; sacred moments; My husband and I are tentatively planning a wedding vow renewal and I am afraid to plan it as I don&#8217;t know ( I cannot say with confidence that I won&#8217;t have an outbreak at that time, how horrible would that be!) I have the beautiful dress, but I long for the security of knowing that I will be able to wear it confidently&#8230;also, it is extremely hard to see myself with pride as a woman, when I feel as though I wear a scarlet letter on my chest. It&#8217;s hard, very hard. I long for the days when I felt clean.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HSV-2 is more than a virus, it steals your joy. It feels like a dark cloud of impending doom lurking, always lurking. How can anyone live a good life with this looming anxiety? The outbreaks are so painful &#8211; ulcers, pain, shame, guilt &#8211; the cycle does not end. I pray for a cure, for with a\u00a0cure, there is hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, my name is Nicole and I have always thought of myself as a good person. 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