Question:
When i first realized what i had. I surfed the internet to see if there was a cure. I was desperate and willing to try anything. It is saddening to know that so many quacks are out there preying on peoples misery. It makes me sick.

Answer:
unfortunately, there are no cures; and hopefully you did not get ripped off in thinking so. the best you can do is take antivirals and/or the vitamin/herb regime you will read about on this forum from members and the links available. Stay healthy and think positively. Hopefully someday there will be a cure!:p

Answer:
When i first realized what i had. I surfed the internet to see if there was a cure. I was desperate and willing to try anything. It is saddening to know that so many quacks are out there preying on peoples misery. It makes me sick. Absolutely. But what’s worse is when somebody like you, newly diagnosed and feeling desperate, lacks your obvious sobriety, and becomes a marketing channel for the quackery.

Lately, this poor site has been deluged with fraudulent links that were debunked years ago—one of which was even de-linked from this site---an administrator addressed it directly a few years ago. This is the worst that I have seen it in my tenure. But someone disturbed arrives, and I suppose naively if not intentionally pastes fraudulent links constantly and it’s like de-evoluton back to 2005…here we go again.

Recently posted link found fraudulent in 2005 and delinked from this website:
http://www.secret-cures.com/herpes/
It remains among the top 4 worst fraudulent sites I have seen. All 4 are complete marketing scams, the others being “hyperbaric oxygen treatment”, imulux and lectroject. Quackery at its purest.

Partial discussion of the link’s fraud (I can’t find all of the discussion, perhaps lost in the upgrade):


Also, readers needn't ever be seduced by "100% money back guarantees" for these scam products. This works like an interest free bond; they basically take your money and invest it, earning interest while you take months or years to fight them for a refund, for which you often give up fighting because it becomes legally more expensive than the actual lost money. Clearly, no bank loan has terms that good!

Your banks/card companies can't protect you from all fraud, have limits on the amounts or time in which any protection is available and many aren't interested. Now you're mad at two people--the original scammers and your trifling card company. And some victims can't personally realize the scam in the product until they have had it for several weeks and reality sets in by which time their "entitlement" to a refund isn't actionable. It makes scams especially popular for this disease vs. some others (e.g., a diabetic knows right away whether some "amazing!" formula "works" or doesn't as they can easily test blood sugar; people with HSV can't test their central nervous system for HSV viral load.) These "guarantees" basically work the same way. It's the law of large numbers: even if they make a refund once in a while (and they won't), the interest earned is substantial when you consider the scope of the fraud. They are slime. And the people who post their links are either honestly ignorant or a beneficiary of the scam.