Living With An STD
I had been like sexually active since I was 15 with multiple partners. It was like about 4 or 5 months later, I saw small growths between my thighs. They looked ugly, and first I thought, it was just something that comes with puberty and would vanish. When the number of eruptions on the skin started to increase, I was like left with no option but to see a doctor, hoping to hear what I had thought all the time. However, the doc told me I had contracted a sexually transmitted infection that caused warts in the genital areas.
When I heard, the infection was not HIV but from a virus called HPV, I was like so relieved. The HPV virus that was behind the eruptions. Fortunately, the virus was gone after I took the medication but the genital warts are still there.
Now I am 17 and I am finding it like impossible to get in a relationship with anyone else. Whenever a guy sees the warts, the first thing he does is to pack up and leave. It does not matter like even if the infection has been cured. I don’t blame the guys, except one who did it to me. Or was it myself, who got into this on my own? How long can this go on? Will someone ever love me now?
Girls, the only thing you should take away from my story is to abstain from sex at least till you are an adult. You never know who is carrying a disease and how serious that disease can be. I am just lucky to not have contracted HIV.
Why Teen Relationships Do Not Last Long
I read this story trying to figure out what all was associated with HPV. I went to my doctor today, just as she did. I thought it was an infected hair but i was wrong. I ended up finding out that I have genital warts. I don’t even know where to begin. I hate that I don’t no if I got it from a past sexual partner or just from my body itself. I wish that I had stayed abstinent. I feel so dirty and disgusted with myself. How am I suppose to have a relationship, a husband, a family? I wish I could take everything back but I can’t. I hope they can find a cure soon, but until then I must live with my choices. To all who is reading this, know this; I never thought I would get a disease and look what happened. It doesn’t matter if you or the guy doesn’t like condoms you need to wear them. It will help protect you but always go to the doctor for questions and concerns before it’s to late.
You know what! Thats exactly what happened to me too. This means it is like more common to end up infected than we might think! Shit!!