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Healing From The Herpes Criticism with Alexandra Harbushka
Life With Herpes
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Herpes jokes, are they funny?
Well yes, they can be funny but they’ve gone too far. It also is a time for us to reflect and think that there’re times when we say a funny joke or comment it can be offending someone even though it was never our intention. We can use this as a time to reflect. But back to the degrading herpes jokes throughout the media or from our social groups. They can make us, people living with herpes, feel uncomfortable and even…
Wondering If It's Herpes? Here's How You Can Get Treated.
Life With Herpes
https://youtu.be/MsOHGQfjvi8 Hi guys! I’m as always excited to be here with you. Today I’ve discovered a great solution for us!!! Get ready to get excited! The moment we think we have herpes we begin to panic. Rember what that’s like? I sure do. We either feel something down there, or feel like the flu is coming on, or worse we see something. The next thing that happens is the “oh $h*t” moment! We usually know it’s herpes but we’re in total denial. The number one thing we want…
Herpes Outbreak Triggers
Everyone Has Their Own Trigger For Herpes Outbreaks.
Obviously, if we have herpes we want to do everything in our power to prevent another outbreak. Right?
Of course, as I’ve discussed time and time again, we’re all different. Some people will get an initial outbreak and then never have another one. Some people are asymptomatic and either they don’t know they have herpes or justs never have outbreaks. And others get them all the time. Now, I don’t know how some people can be asymptomatic…
110: Dating, Falling In Love and Married With Herpes With Alexandra Harbushka
Life With Herpes
This episode is all about our story from dating, to falling in love and getting married. And of course, there's that little thing called herpes. We wanted to share our journey so that you can use it as a reference for your relationship. Bill talks about what it's like to be married to someone with herpes and what our journey is like.
We share all our secrets and talk everything from sex to life and friendship.
This is pretty personal so I hope you enjoy. Remember, herpes can…
111: Hookups and Herpes with Alexandra Harbushka
Life With Herpes
https://youtu.be/wTmCWWzMLyELet’s talk about sex! The hookup culture has become a pretty controversial cultural topic amongst college kids, psychologist, and the baby boomers worrying about their kids in this sexual revolution. Some main points that are brought up are, safe sex, self-worth, mental health, is the love dead and basically a lack of understanding of what hooking up really is. It gets brought to my attention almost on a daily basis by members of our Life With He…
112: Bill & Alexandra How We Handle Sex And Herpes
Life With Herpes
https://youtu.be/tqvPMnvN3XsOk, so I get asked time and time again about my relationship with my husband, Bill. People ask me if we practice safe sex, if we even have sex, people ask if he has herpes and also people ask what's going through Bill's mind about me having herpes. Well in this episode we share the nitty-gritty and Bill opens up about what's on his mind when we have sex. It's a pretty fun and personal video.
xoxox,
Alexandra
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Life With Herpes
https://youtu.be/bBo4P5Yywj4We have no problem talking about what’s going on in our lives or what we want for dinner but when it comes to talking about sex we all act like little kids that got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. Basically, we freeze and run away.
Sound familiar?
Be honest… have you always had “the talk” before getting naked with someone?
Right. That’s what I thought. And why?
Because we don’t know how to have the talk. The sex talk is something that old …
116: Why Will I Have Herpes For The Rest Of My Life With Alexandra Harbushka
One of the biggest reasons why herpes is so dreaded is because it stays with you forever. It’s one of the few things you're guaranteed to take with you when you die. The reason is
Now compared to getting chlamydia or ghonorrea or even strep throat these are all bacterial infections, not viruses. So when a person is diagnosed with say chlamydia a doctor will prescribe an antibiotic that will kill the chlamydia living in your body. You …
117: What I Wish I Knew Before I Was Diagnosed With Herpes With Alexandra Harbushka
Life With Herpes
It’s so easy to look back with the knowledge that you have now and say I shoulda coulda woulda etc. If you could turn back the time you could pick the winning lotto tickets or ace the final exam or even sweet the one you love off your feet. I don’t think too many people would say, “I’d still get herpes”. However, I would but that’s another post.
Now knowing everything I know about herpes I wish there were somethings that I would have kno…
118: Red Flag Responses To Safe Sex With Alexandra Harbushka
Life With Herpes
Alright, I’ll just jump right to it. We hate having the “sex” talk and even worse we hate having the “safe sex” talk.
I’m sure we all could come up with some really classic responses. In fact, you should let us all know your favorite response to the “safe sex” talk. It’s like coming up with your favorite pick up line. Lol. Ok but in all seriousness having the safe sex convo is really important. I talk a lot about this in other shows so fe…