subject: Genital Herpes Symptoms in Women - Common Female Herpes Signs [print this page] Are you feeling or experiencing the following: itching or burning sensation in and around your vagina, unusual vaginal discharge, painful or difficult urination, swelling of lymph nodes, headache, fever, nausea, sore muscles and joints. Have you had unprotected sexual intercourse within the last two weeks? Then there is a good chance that you have acquired HSV-2, because the symptoms mentioned above are the common genital herpes symptoms in women. These symptoms typically emerge before an actual outbreak occurs.
If it is determined that you have herpes, do not panic. Even though there is still no known cure for the disease, and rumors and horror stories run rampant about the disease, its symptoms can be managed. So even if you have herpes, you can still live a normal life and have a healthy relationship with other people, both sexual and otherwise.
During an outbreak, a woman with genital herpes will experience having blisters which is the trademark of the disease. These blisters, which range from the size of a pimple to the size of a large coin, will eventually turn into open sores. Afterwards, crust will appear on the sores before they heal totally. Painful urination and vaginal discharge continue during an outbreak. A herpes outbreak can occur within two weeks from contracting the disease and can last for about another two weeks. If not managed properly, genital herpes symptoms in women can occur from several times in the life of an infected person, right up to once a month or every few weeks. This is why treatment is so important.
As soon as you have noticed any of the above mentioned symptoms, you should immediately go to your doctor because only a medical expert can correctly diagnose if you have genital herpes or not. Some of the genital herpes symptoms in women are common and can easily be symptoms of other diseases and not genital herpes. A simple yeast infection, for example, is often mistaken as genital herpes.
