Conversation starter

You may be feeling a bit stressed about the doctor’s appointment, talking about what could be genital herpes. When you’re stressed it’s hard not to go blank and forget questions you’d like answered. The following is a list of questions regularly asked by patients to their doctors, you might like to ask.

1. What do you think is causing my symptoms?
2. Is it treatable and what does the treatment involve?
3. What will happen if I don’t take the treatment?
4. Will this interfere with my sex life?
5. What should I say to my partner?
6. If I have something contagious, how likely am I to pass it on?
7. How could I have caught it?
8. Do I have to change the way I live?