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The Good News About the Bad News: Herpes: Everything You Need to Know

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WOW, hat's off to Terri Warren, RN, NP! Terri's book tells you everything you could ever want to know about herpes in a caring, girl-friend style dialog filled with absolutely accurate medical information. In a world full of misinformation and false promises of cures, this book is a welcome change. I believe every question that any patient has ever asked me about herpes is answered somewhere within this book. Confused about whether or not your diagnosis is accurate? Not clear where, when or how you caught herpes? Feeling isolated and hopeless about your disease? Terri addresses ALL of these issues within her book. I am a board-certified family physician who has become an expert in sexually transmitted diseases, and I will recommend this book to every single patient that I diagnose with herpes (or who has questions about herpes, especially if their partner has it.) Kudos to Terri Warren for writing such an easily readable, accurate, and helpful book!Seductive Delusions: How Everyday People Catch STDs

As a Family Nurse Practitioner working in women's health, I have found the diagnosis and treatment of herpes especially frustrating. There has always been such confusion surrounding how to screen, treat and counsel patients regarding this emotionally charged disease. Terri Warren has addressed all these issues with years of research and practice as her guide. This book will answer the most common questions posed by patients and providers alike. She gives guidance to the clinician and reassurance to the patient that Herpes is manageable and that patients with this diagnosis have in the past and will in the future live full and rewarding lives. I will be making this book a part of our patient lending library and encouraging fellow providers to do the same. Thank you Terri for sharing your life's work with us.
Linda Poirier MSN FNP-C

The author has, at last, written a comprehensive yet understandable guide to this virus. I wish this book had been available when I was first diagnosed in 1993. While I learned a lot more about herpes from this book even after all these years of living with it, the book was most valuable to me as a source of information to my current partner, who does not have the virus. After reading the book, she was able to make an informed, knowledgeable decision about becoming physically intimate. She remains free of the virus, due to both precautions and luck, but fully understands the risks and how to minimize them.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who has herpes, or knows someone who does and wants to better understand it.

This book saved me from being a nervous wreck. I found out that I had herpes from a panel of std tests that I was certain would come back negative in entirety. I was wrong-Herpes 1, and then I panicked-big time. After scouring the Internet for a week making myself sick from all the information and misinformation, the kind folks at Planned Parenthood recommended that I read The Good News about the Bad news. I can not go on enough about how helpful this book was to me. I recommend it now to anyone I know who gets cold sores or will talk to me for even a minute about herpes, as I have come to find out that 2/3 of US population are carrying this around, most without even knowing it-due to misinformation and/or (even more confusing) lack of obvious symptoms. The moment I heard the test results I felt like I went from a normal, healthy, sexually responsible person to an untouchable monster who had been haphazardly spreading an infectious disease. This book helped me to put it all into perspective and pull myself out of the downward spiral. She also does consultations, which I also highly recommend for the inevitable leftover ?'s and to speak to someone with an understanding ear and knowledgeable response to any and all ?'s you may have. She is great. The book is a lifesaver. Thank you Terri Warren.

I am a health care provider. The information in this book is outstanding for the patient with herpes I/II or the provider treating them. I have been fortunate to have heard Terry speak in person. The book is written in an easy to read style that makes it seem as if Terry is right in the room with you. I would recommend this book for all health care providers and for their patients who are struggling to come to terms with their new or long standing diagnosis of Herpes simplex I and/or II.

I love, love, love this book!

I've been a sex educator for almost 10 years and this is the best book I have ever read about understanding Herpes.

Not only is it filled with useful information (thank you!), I adore the tone of the book. You can tell she has been in the front lines of STI treatment and has a ton of knowledge but breaks it down very easily. She has perfected the way in which those of us who spend a lot of time talking with people about sexual health tend to "speak".

So many book about STIs fail to engage the reader and I was thrilled that I wasn't able to put this particular book down.

I highly recommend this for anyone who works with sexual health as well as anyone who is herpes positive.

Just as promised, a great book with tons of information that is readable and understandable. Absolutely recommend it.

Very informative. The Author helps you to accept this disease, and realize you did not get this disease alone, and you should not be ashamed.---Your partner should be ashamed though!!!