I know this is late, but there were two side-points that I wanted to add:
1. I've had very mixed experiences with Brook clinics. The nurses there have not always been sympathetic or even especially knowledgeable. I'm so sorry for your experience with your GP! - but there are sympathetic, helpful GPs out there and I encourage you to look for one.
2. Herpes, in itself, is absolutely not the end of the world. I... probably have it (long story), probably so does my boyfriend, and definitely so do at least two other people I know. The thing I've found with herpes is that often, people's reactions to it are really affected by the way they caught it, or think they caught it, rather than the symptoms themselves. If you think you've caught it in traumatic circumstances it affects you psychologically in a profound sense. So this is really something to talk through with a counsellor, as well as a GP or similar.
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Date: 2010-03-02 11:58 pm (UTC)1. I've had very mixed experiences with Brook clinics. The nurses there have not always been sympathetic or even especially knowledgeable. I'm so sorry for your experience with your GP! - but there are sympathetic, helpful GPs out there and I encourage you to look for one.
2. Herpes, in itself, is absolutely not the end of the world. I... probably have it (long story), probably so does my boyfriend, and definitely so do at least two other people I know. The thing I've found with herpes is that often, people's reactions to it are really affected by the way they caught it, or think they caught it, rather than the symptoms themselves. If you think you've caught it in traumatic circumstances it affects you psychologically in a profound sense. So this is really something to talk through with a counsellor, as well as a GP or similar.