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5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by Blendoscarz10(m): 11:38am On Oct 31, 2016
Learning you have a sexually transmitted infection or disease is never ideal, particularly when you find out you’ve contracted one whose outlook is all too grim. While there’s no cure for some STDs, treatment options may be available to lessen or alleviate symptoms. When it comes to your sexual health, there’s no better time to play it safe. Here are five incurable STDs, and the best treatment options for each.


1. Herpes Simplex

Herpes is a untreatable but manageable skin condition that gets into and lives in your nerves. It’s super prevalent: nearly everyone has the virus by the end of their lives. There are two types — the more common HSV-1 usually lives in or around your mouth (and is usually called cold sores), while HSV-2 prefers your genital region. However, each can live in the other place as well. You can have the herpes virus inside you and not even know it (it’s estimated that 20 to 30 percent of people who have herpes are unaware), but if you do get symptoms, they will be in the form of tiny, fluid-filled blisters that burst and leave behind painful ulcers that take one to three weeks to heal. Luckily, this only happens occasionally.

Also luckily, you can take daily medication to suppress herpes symptoms. Taking this suppressive antiviral medication can reduce outbreaks by up to 80 percent, and in many people suppresses outbreaks altogether. Other people only take meds when they feel an outbreak coming on, which is usually preceded by feelings of tingling, burning, itching, or pain. Suppressive medications have been shown to diminish the risk of spreading the virus to other humans. So while you’re not cured, if you’re taking your medication as your doctor prescribes, you’re pretty close to living herpes-blister-free and protecting your loved ones.

There are also some non-medical things you can do to minimize herpes outbreaks and manage your symptoms. These include supplements and herbs, special diets, and minimizing your stress.

2. HIV
HIV is another of the currently incurable STDs, although it is the one with the most money being thrown at research for a cure. This virus attacks your immune system, making it too weak to fight off other sick-making things that may enter your body. The result can be devastating, as evidenced by the horrific death toll, which is currently around 35 million worldwide since the epidemic began in the 1980s.

Luckily, with current antiviral medication regimens, people are living with HIV for much longer. And even better, a brand-new study that came out this year found that people who take their medication as prescribed to lower the amount of viral copies in their system had no instances of passing along HIV to their partners, even when they weren’t using condoms. So while this isn’t a cure, it’s definitely treatment at its most useful.

3. Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
HPV is also called genital warts, although only a few of the 40-ish strains actually cause warts. Some of the other strains are potentially cancer-causing, and the rest kinda just hitch a ride in your body. Depending on how old you are, you may have already gotten the vaccine against HPV — this only covers you against the highest risk strains for cancer and warts. So regardless, chances are at some point in your life, you’ll get HPV in your body. There are some things you can do to manage your symptoms. These include some medical procedures like freezing off the warts, changing what you eat, taking herbs, and minimizing your stress. But nope, there’s no medical cure.

I say “medical” because you do have a cure — you! Your immune system, more specifically. Most times, your body clears the HPV infection all on its own. So just because you test positive for HPV or get warts, doesn’t mean you’ll have it forever. In fact, the average life of an HPV infection is between four and twenty months, and most people kick it within two years. HPV progresses to pre-cancer in the rare instance when your body is unable to clear a high-risk cancer strain for a long time. This leads your infected cells to turn abnormal.

4. Hepatitis A & B
Hepatitis is a bloodborne virus that messes with your liver. There are three types: A, B, and C. If you get one of these, it can severely impair your liver function, leading to illness and even death. For Hepatitis A and B, there is no cure. However, there is a vaccine for these two types — and, as with HPV, your body usually clears both Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B within a few months. However, some people do end up with chronic Hepatitis B, which means their body didn’t get rid of it within six months. For folks with chronic Hepatitis B infection, there are medications that can slow down the damage the virus does to your liver.

Until recently, Hepatitis C was another incurable STD — and then researchers developed a cure. That’s right, pretty much everyone with Hepatitis C can now be cured. See? There’s hope!

5. Gonorrhea
Unfortunately, gonorrhea, a previously totally curable STD, is becoming resistant to medication. So if you end up with gonorrhea and try to get it treated, it might work — and it might not.

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted bacterial infection. Not everyone who has it gets symptoms, but if you do, they will include yellow vaginal discharge and vaginal itching, burning, or redness. You can also experience pain when peeing or having sex. If this is happening to you, you should still go to your doctor to get antibiotics. However, this bacteria keeps gaining resistance to more and more antibiotic types. Until researchers figure out a solution to this, we will probably start using antimicrobials to manage the symptoms of gonorrheal infection.


CONCLUSION

No one likes living with an incurable disease of any kind. However, the good news is that all the STDs that are currently incurable are pretty manageable with medication and/or relatively doable lifestyle changes. Medicine is also progressing so rapidly that I hope that my response here totally dates this article in the near future because we’ve come up with even more cures for more sexually transmitted diseases!

Either way, the bottom line is that no STD should ruin your life. They are hitching a ride on your gorgeous body and they better recognize who is in charge. So don't freak out — just get tested regularly and manage your health!


https://www.bustle.com/articles/184021-5-incurable-stds-how-to-stay-healthy-if-you-have-one

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Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by Nobody: 11:51am On Oct 31, 2016
Gonorrhea & hepatitis B has a cure.

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Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by Blendoscarz10(m): 2:24pm On Oct 31, 2016
Horpz24:
Gonorrhea & hepatitis B has a cure.


medically or herbally @horpz24

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Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by tosyne2much(m): 3:29pm On Oct 31, 2016
Shout out to all the ladies in the house who are battling with STDs but will come on this thread and pretend as if the disease is strange to them

I know that this write-up will also be very useful for guys who indulge in premarital and unprotected sex and I urge Lalasticlala to save their lives by moving this thread to the FP

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Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by Nobody: 7:58pm On Oct 31, 2016
grin

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Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by Category1: 8:00pm On Oct 31, 2016
unclezuma:
grin
unclezuma:
grin
Every time u dey shine ur ugly teeth, na wetin dey make laff sef undecided

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Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by Nobody: 8:01pm On Oct 31, 2016
Only on the pages of nairaland does everything have a cure. I pray no one gets swindled by claims I see every other day on this forum.
OP nice article. It was a good read.

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Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by SUPOL(m): 8:02pm On Oct 31, 2016
D only thing impossible is that there's no God.

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Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by joshing(m): 8:02pm On Oct 31, 2016
Its wel oo
Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by dukechilezie(m): 8:03pm On Oct 31, 2016
The best and safest means is to get saved. Be born again. Abstaining from pre marital sex is the surest way and these diseases will be far from you.

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Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by Nobody: 8:03pm On Oct 31, 2016
angry
Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by dhardline(m): 8:03pm On Oct 31, 2016
Omg.. Nothing like safe sex rather it should be no sex before marriage biko, to prevent stories that touch. cry shocked

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Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by Nobody: 8:03pm On Oct 31, 2016
Ok. God protect my future wife wia eva she s. Help me nt 2 fal in2 dis generation temptation.

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Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by lovethchioma(f): 8:03pm On Oct 31, 2016
tosyne2much:
This write-up will be very useful for guys who indulge in premarital and unprotected sex, not me cool


For your mind now
Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by Nobody: 8:04pm On Oct 31, 2016
Op,1,3,4 and 5 is curable
Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by fufuNegusi(m): 8:04pm On Oct 31, 2016
Sorry I don't have one

**walks out of thread**
Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by Joygalore(f): 8:05pm On Oct 31, 2016
grin
Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by webincomeplus(m): 8:05pm On Oct 31, 2016
Horpz24:
Gonorrhea & hepatitis B has a cure.
Gonorrhea can be cured, no doubt. But most of the supposed cures for chronic hepatitis B are snake oil treatments that don't do shi.t!
Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by Fantastic2m(m): 8:05pm On Oct 31, 2016
Wake up call to the youths..
Desist from fornication
shocked shocked

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Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by rawpadgin(m): 8:06pm On Oct 31, 2016
this is very educative however, watch nairaland youth avoid it like a plague

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Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by tdemo(m): 8:06pm On Oct 31, 2016
tosyne2much:
This write-up will be very useful for guys who indulge in premarital and unprotected sex, not me cool


Cc
Lalasticlala
watyn u dey try form now
Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by veekid(m): 8:07pm On Oct 31, 2016
Awesome
Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by Nobody: 8:08pm On Oct 31, 2016
What of syphilis?
Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by Nobody: 8:08pm On Oct 31, 2016
Gonorrhoea has a cure

But u are still right abt the resistant strain which in some case is as a result of drug abuse

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Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by izzy4shizzy(m): 8:08pm On Oct 31, 2016
Chai
Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by djeezy(m): 8:09pm On Oct 31, 2016
Very informative.
Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by Olasco93: 8:09pm On Oct 31, 2016
This is very Informative, Educative and Insightful. Above all, don't let "pre-marital" sex ruin your precious, rare and good life, it's never worth it that Sex kill a human...
Conscience is an open wound, only truth can heal it.

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Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by raphieMontella: 8:09pm On Oct 31, 2016
oya... No more gbensing without condom.. So help me God!
Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by wemmieslim(f): 8:10pm On Oct 31, 2016
Simple, stay off sex before marriage, be like me.
Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by jiinxed: 8:10pm On Oct 31, 2016
More of these on the front page please? kiss
Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by soberdrunk(m): 8:10pm On Oct 31, 2016
Op obviously havent heard of "Dr Igodo Goko cleanser", no std for this world way he nor dey cure, "if something dey waka for your body", "if you be woman, you nor dey breastfeed but water dey commot for your breasts" "Staph of 35 years" Dr Igodo Goko cleanser nah the answer" grin cheesy


Disclaimer-These claims have not been investigated by me! I simply hear it over the loudspeaker when am driving pass the market in my area grin

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Re: 5 Incurable STDS & How To Stay Healthy If You Have One by BRIGHTRIVERS(m): 8:11pm On Oct 31, 2016
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