How does herpes affect teenagers?

Answer 1

well i am a teenage girl and i have genital herpes, i was told i had it about 3 weeks ago. i was in a relationship with my partner for 5 months until last night when we decided to break it off because i had the infection and he didnt (even though i have never been with anybody but him). so basically it affects every teenager differently but it affected me by the stress im going through every day because i still havent grasped that i actually have it for the rest of my life, ive only had one out break but its very painfull. extremely painful to urinate, very uncomfortable to walk, sit and even to wear undies. no body knows but myy ex, me, my mum and his mum but to add extra stress i lost the person i love because i was afraid to give it too him and everything was getting to difficult. this has seriously affected my life and it's so stressful because i'm at such a young age, it's honestly so hard to cope with and ive only had it for a few weeks.