Non Venereal Warts No Sexual Connotations
By Trent Clarke

Although these warts look like sexually transmitted genital warts, they are not caused by the HPV virus. A doctor can discern the slight differences between venereal and non-venereal warts very easily. They do not look different to the untrained eye though and only a professional can properly diagnose your condition. So give yourself peace of mind and get a doctor’s professional opinion as soon as you can.

Most sufferers of non-venereal genital warts also suffer from a skin condition called psoriasis. This condition causes dry skin and warts. Warts formed due to this condition usually form on the shaft of the penis, the scrotum or in the rectal area. The symptoms are erratic and might appear only periodically before it disappears. Sufferers of this type of non-venereal genital wart might suffer from itching and irritation in the genital area. People who have psoriasis have a generally dry skin and often have lesions on their elbows or knees.

Lichen planus is the medical name for another type of genital warts that is not spread through intercourse. These warts look like polygons and are flat topped. The skin often peels on their surfaces. Sufferers usually have a history of skin related ailments and warts that occur on other areas. The only way to know for sure is to make an appointment to see your doctor.

It is fortunate that these warts often disappear without treatment. In some cases they become more acute and they spread. Hopefully by this time you would have already consulted a doctor but if you have not then you should do so immediately. The same warts low risk treatments apply for non-venereal warts as what is used for sexually transmitted genital warts and common warts. Procedures include freezing, electro-therapy, laser surgery and conventional surgery. The treatment aims to remove the wart completely or to reduce its size. In most cases; unlike venereal genital warts, the chances of non-venereal genital warts returning are slimmer.

Some non-venereal genital warts can even be treated by prescription drugs.

If you suffer from genital warts but you are not sexually active you should go see your doctor for a suitable treatment. There is no reason to suffer the mental and physical effects of being inflicted with non-venereal genital warts.

You can also find more info on genital warts. Genital Wartsbliss.com is a comprehensive resource which provide information about Genital warts.

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My First Year With My “Friend” Herpes Or How I Was Re-Born A Modern-Day Leper

By Christopher Scipio

It was 1990, I was 24 years old and I didn’t think my life could get any worse. I had just finished college and my financial situation was worse than dire. The country was in the midst of an economic depression. A long dismal winter had just given up the ghost and to top it all off I was in the middle of a horrific break-up with a vengeful girlfriend.

Of course it was pathetically naive of me to think that life couldn’t get any worse and life wasted no time proving that fact. My relationship with this beautiful, vivacious, urbane woman had begun most promisingly. We had courted very romantically by letter and phone for six months before ever getting together. I was still at University when we first met and we were separated by a distance of about 1200 miles. We started off as friends and the love between us grew slowly with all the optimism and passion expected with us both being in our twenties. Sadly, what was so wonderful by distance was a nightmare close up. When my classes ended and I flew down to move in with her it took no time at all for things to go very very wrong. Our sex life was hot despite the fact told me she had Herpes. She told me that she could tell when she was getting an outbreak and as long as we refrained from having sex at those times, it was cool for us to have a natural unprotected sex life. I believed her, and she certainly sincerely believed that to be the case as well. She had only very recently gotten the disease herself from a man she had casually slept with and who didn’t tell her he was infected.

We got along in bed much better than we ever did out of bed. The tall beautiful fair-skinned princess and her Tall, Black dread-locked artist. The sad fact was that we didn’t get along at all. Instead of creating harmony we created war. And I must say that I am to blame for much it. I was at a time in my life where my tolerance for certain things was very low and I was very angry about how the world was treating me and I certainly didn’t enjoy the treatment I was receiving from my beloved- but I definitely contributed more than my fair share to the discord. Once we were in the same space together the chemistry between us was bad, bad, bad. The relationship ended after a mercifully short time leaving us scattered, raw and dumb-founded.

Two days after the notorious breakup we were reunited by a particularly cruel twist of fate. Less than 48 hours after swearing I would never see her again I was sitting beside her in the waiting room of a hospital. She was looking at me with a combination of guilt, sadness and white-hot enmity. I didn’t know how to feel or what to say to her. I was floating around out in space trying to get a grip on the situation.

You see dear readers I was in the midst of what I would later find out to be my first Herpes outbreak. It has started out as an itchy irritation on my foreskin but had quickly turned into a raging swelling colony of tiny lesions and I was overwhelmed by pain and all the flu-like symptoms typical of first outbreaks. I had no idea what was happening to me. I do remember hoping at the time that it was anything but Herpes or AIDS. I would have even considered syphilis or gonorrhea to have been preferable. The doctors said they couldn’t tell what it was that I had and had insisted that my ex-girlfriend of two days come in with me so we could both be tested at the same time.

Even though we both hated each other at the time- and I’m sure she still does today, I remember feeling sorry for her. I knew even then that if it proved true that she had given Herpes to me, she would have been devastated too. So there we were with all those mixed emotions dreading the worse and hoping for the best.

Of course the doctor’s tormented us by making us wait about a week before the test results would be back. They had taken a swab of my lesions and sent it off somewhere. When the phone call eventually came in the news was good. I had tested negative for Herpes. The doctors said they still didn’t know what it was that I had, that possibly it was just an infection of my foreskin from having rough sex. I was over the moon with relief and wasted no time in calling Her to tell her the good news. For one brief moment we actually had something positive to share together. That test result was a big reprieve for both of us. Sadly, and once again ironically, it turned out only to be a reprieve for one of us.

To her credit she had been upfront with me. At the time I really had no idea what the implications and risks were. I was however prepared to take the risk, I just had no idea that this would literally be a very ironic last interaction in what had been the worst relationship both of us would ever have in our lives.

I went on with my life and forgot all about Herpes. But Herpes didn’t forget about me, not for a second. I got another outbreak two months later and then another one a month later. It was angry as hell and I stormed into a different hospital demanding to know what was wrong with me. At this hospital the doctors were more competent and took one look at my penis and told me that it was obvious that I had Herpes. They confirmed this with their own cotton swab test- there was not blood test for Herpes in Canada available at this point in history. They told me that false negatives were common for Herpes because if there wasn’t enough virus present on the skin at the time of the test, then you would get a negative result even though you had Herpes. They told me there was nothing they could do for me and that I would have this disease for life and that my sex life would never be the same. I wanted to call my ex-love and blast her for what had happened. And even though she at the time was wrecking vengeance against me by trying to destroy my career and telling everyone who would listen how badly I had treated her, I didn’t have the heart to throw this in her face. So I have never told her that she gave me Herpes and I’ll never tell her.

I do not possess the power to describe the world of pain and shame the eventual diagnosis of Herpes would thrust me into. In many ways I felt like my life was truly over. I felt dirty in a way that I had never experienced before. Just saying the word Herpes sent a chill thorough my whole body. The doctors were cold and unsympathetic. I couldn’t discuss this with anyone in my conservative West-Indian family even though we were otherwise close. I didn’t have anyone to talk to. Strange fatalistic fantasies went through my mind all day long, day after day. The mere thought of having to tell someone that I had this thing made me want to run for the cover of enforced celibacy.

I felt cursed like some Old Testament character. Sure I had been an asshole, not unlike most men my age, but I had definitely not been enough of an asshole to deserve to be punished by the Gods this way. This was definitely overkill in all meanings of the word.

My first realization after being able to admit to myself that I had Herpes was that it was forever. No matter what I did or who I became I was never going to be a “whole” person. That I was “marked” for life. That I had joined an outcast caste. I was one of the many modern day lepers- those sad morally challenged people with Herpes. I was a victim and I sure didn’t like the feeling. What a burden to have to carry all the rest of my life.

Yes, I was now one of them. But I had no real idea of what being one of them really meant. To find out would take years and many experiences both liberating and devastating.

Why am I telling you all of this? Part of it is narcissism to be sure. It’s human nature to want your story preserved somewhere in the ether and this is my way of making sure that some people know what happened to me and how I felt about it. But the larger part of my motivation is for my own rehabilitation. I refuse to be a victim to this disease and to society’s mean, irrational fear and loathing of those of us who are stricken with sexually transmitted diseases. I wasn’t living a high-risk lifestyle- I got my herpes in the context of a monogamous relationship. But even if I had been doing high-risk activities, I in no way deserve to be scorned or ostracized because of it. The worst place to be when you have Herpes is in the closet. If you want to feel like a leper and allow others to treat you like one, be my guest, but I am determined not to live like that. Instead of being imprisoned by this disease, I’ve decided to free myself. I am no longer afraid of saying the word and letting people know that I am one of “them”. I have Herpes but Herpes doesn’t have me. I am at peace with the virus and the virus is at peace with me. I am at peace with my place in this world and I have discovered the joy of encouraging others to liberate themselves from the stigma.

In part two of this Story- “Nine Years in the Wildness: My Personal and Professional Quest for a Holistic Herpes Treatment Plan, I will chronicle how I transitioned from being a victim of Herpes to being a Holistic Herpes Treatment Specialist and a Herpes spokesperson. I was able to turn the biggest negative in my life to one of the biggest positives in my life and the journey is just beginning. We are truly living in a Herpes Nation with 60% or more of the general population in North America having either type one or type two Herpes.

About the Author: Christopher Scipio is a homeopath and herbalist with over twenty years of experience. For the past 14 years he has been a holistic viral specialist specializing in the holistic treatment of herpes. His approach which he has had the benefit of proving in his clinic and private practice is simple, effective and without side effects. http://www.natropractica.com - http://www.herpesnation.com

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A Simple Overview To Genital Herpes And How To Talk To Your Children About It

By Carmen Peralta

Genital herpes is one of the most commonly occurring Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the world and it is caused by the Herpes Simplex Virus.

There are two variations of the virus: type 1 also referred to as HSV-1 and type 2 commonly known as HSV-2. Type 1 which is the reason behind the cold sores you might see people sporting on their lips and type 2 which is most commonly responsible for genital herpes.

Genital herpes has no preference when it comes to gender, age or social status. It affects men and women, teenagers and adults, single and married people.

A person can only get infected during sexual contact with someone who is already infected. The most common way to transmit the HSV virus is thru sexual intercourse. Sexual intercourse can be vaginal, anal or oral sex. Most people have none to very minimal signs or symptoms from type 1 or type 2 infections. When signs do occur, they tend to appear as small blisters in the pubic and anal region of the person infected. These blisters break leaving sores that may take several weeks to heal. In most cases, the first outbreak is the most severe with signs and symptoms that include flu-like symptoms, fever and swollen glands. Outbreaks tend to happen less often and less severe over time.

When a person has an outbreak, which means that the blisters are present, they are more likely to transmit the disease. That doesn’t mean that someone who is infected with genital herpes and doesn’t have blisters is safe. They’re not. Safe sex practices do need to be followed regardless of the presence of blisters.

The only accurate way to be diagnosed with genital herpes is by getting a blood test though most diagnosis are visual when sores are present. When you are diagnosed with genital herpes you may view that as the end of your sexual life. It’s not. Many people live with this condition and enjoy active intimate lives. There are multiple sites dedicated to introduce singles with herpes for dating.

Some surprising facts about genital herpes that many people aren’t aware of include:

* Approximately 1 million people are infected with genital herpes each year.

* In the United States it’s estimated that 1 in 5 people are infected with genital herpes.

* Type-2 infections are more common in women than in men.

* Up to 90% of people who are infected with genital herpes aren’t aware of it.

In order to manage this condition you do need to be diagnosed by a doctor. That’s the first step towards treatment. Although there isn’t an available cure for genital herpes it can be managed by oral medication known as suppressive therapy.

If you are a parent, you shouldn’t wait to start talking to your children about genital herpes and do not expect their school to educate them about STDs. It is best to start educating your children when they are in their pre-teen or early teen years.

If your partner or child confides in you that he or she may have genital herpes or you suspect that you may be infected, plan a visit to your physician as soon as possible.

About the Author: Carmen Peralta is the Genital Herpes channel guide and a member of Herpes Dating website STDSingles.com.

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Genital Warts – How to Cope With Psychological and Emotional Pain?

By W. Darren -

Aside from being physically disruptive, genital warts may cause the sufferer psychological and emotional pain. It is common for an individual with genital warts or HPV infection to be frustrated, embarrassed, and anxious about having genital warts and the risks associated with it. This is normal, but it would help if you take into the account the fact that genital warts can be controlled and managed. There may not be a cure for the virus itself, but with perseverance and patience, the symptoms will go away. It would also help if you try to overcome your emotions first and concentrate on gathering information about the said disease in order to know how to deal with it. Doing so will definitely help you come to terms with the situation, do something about it, and move on to have a happier and healthier life.

Again, it is normal to feel upset and anxious once you find out you have genital warts. You may even think that you are less attractive, experience a decrease in sex drive, and feel a certain amount of isolation from everyone else. You may even feel angry at your partner, thinking that he/she must have been the one whom you got the infection from even though in reality it is hard to pinpoint who passed on the virus to you. It may take some time to get over these negative emotions, but you should understand that it is still possible to have a normal life even if you have or have had genital warts.

There are many ways to cope emotionally with genital warts. You may talk to someone whom you know you can fully trust. Do not be ashamed to confide in someone about your situation. You are not alone. There are a lot of people out there who are going through the same ordeal. Moreover, as mentioned above, you may join a genital warts support group. You may find such support groups offline or online. With the former, there is a certain amount of human interaction. You will meet with actual people and have in-person conversations. With online support groups, you can voice out your concerns anonymously. Support groups can offer you a lot of useful information, such as resources regarding treatments.

You should also talk to your partner about your situation. But before this, you should do a lot of research about genital warts so that you would be prepared to answer all of his/her questions. Brace yourself for the possibility of rejection. Understand that your partner will feel hurt and confused, just like how you felt at first. Explain that even though there is no cure for the virus, there are a lot of treatment options available that would get rid of the warts. Also mention that in most cases, the virus goes away within two years. Also, tell your partner that not everyone who gets exposed to the virus will get genital warts; a strong immune system is responsible for protecting you. Finally, instead moping about the situation, identify ways on how you can deal with it together.

About the Author: For more information, kindly visit Genital Warts Support Team - a health resource dedicated to providing factual information about Genital Warts. Related topics including “Genital Warts During Pregnancy“, “What Are Genital Warts?” and more.

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Homeopathic Herpes Treatments: Combating the Herpes Virus Using Natural Herpes Treatments

By Jonathan Lindell

Natural, available materials have been used for centuries to combat a wide array of diseases including the Herpes virus. This practice continues today as medical professionals develop more powerful formulas that use only natural, safe ingredients and combine them into safe, effective Homeopathic Herpes Treatments.

While “Western Medicine” also continues to develop, many patients choose to use products that contain only natural ingredients as the risk of using all-natural treatments such as natural herpes treatments presents less risk of the patient developing side effects.

In addition, many patients that support homeopathic herpes treatments do so because of the fact that corporate pharmaceutical companies have continued to take advantage of their power by charging exorbitant amounts of money for their products. While these corporate, prescription medications are generally effective, it is hard to ignore the hefty price tag.

As a result of these heavily bloated prices, patients are choosing more affordable and safer natural products than ever before. It simply becomes an issue of paying for essential items like food, water, and shelter vs. paying for overpriced herpes medications.

While having medical insurance does help alleviate some of the cost of using traditional herpes treatments, the unfortunate reality is that millions of people simply do not have or can not afford health insurance and are therefore forced to pay out of pocket. These prescriptions can cost thousands of dollars a year compared to the much more affordable and more cost effective route of using a natural herpes treatment.

Immune System Benefits

In addition to containing unique and proven ingredients which specifically attack the Herpes virus, most Homeopathic Herpes Treatments also contain a variety of beneficial vitamins and minerals. These ingredients help improve the immune system. As a result, the individual is more able to naturally combat the virus.

Combining specific ingredients that attack the Herpes virus as well as including powerful ingredients which improve the immune system is exactly why so many of those affected by either strain of the Herpes virus have switched over to using a natural, Homeopathic Herpes Treatment.

Whichever path you choose, be it one that includes traditional, prescription medications or one that includes Homeopathic Herpes Treatments, it is up to you to fully educate yourself. This includes researching each product to determine not only its potential effectiveness, but also is cost effectiveness as well.

It is also important that you research the direct correlation between disease and health. The healthier you are, the more your body will be able to help control your disease. Those that live an unhealthy lifestyle are less likely to receive the full benefits of using a natural herpes treatment than those patients that make health conscience choices.

In conclusion, Herpes can not be cured and can only be controlled. You can help suppress this common disease using prescription medications or a natural herpes treatment. Whatever option you choose don’t ignore the problem, it will not go away. It is also vital that you are honest about your disease. You can transmit Herpes through any skin-to-skin contact regardless if you are having an outbreak or not.

About the Author: Jonathan Lindell suggests trying the Homeopathic Herpes Treatment Viralprin.

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