What is genital herpes infection?
Genital herpes appears as clusters of blisters which progress to small areas of ulceration anywhere on the genital area or on the buttocks or upper thighs. The skin eruptions are sometimes particularly painful and redness, numbness and tingling are a common experience a few hours before these blisters and ulcers develop. The skin eruptions may appear once only and never recur or they may recur with changing frequency at different sites, but in the same body area, causing repeated distress. Sometimes when a person first has an attack of genital herpes, they may have severe back, neck and head pain and be so sore that they are unable to pass urine. The head and neck pains are often like meningitis.
