Re: Thanks for a nice post.

yeah, considering there were some patronizing parts in your post, I'm not surprised you don't always get nice replies.

I do realize that one can't trust anecdotal evidence, that's why I try to say things like people were supposedly cured-- or I say that it's anecdotal. I'm too lazy to go back to my initial post but I highly doubt I stated that BHT definitely cures herpes because I saw it on such and such a website.

And yes, I can spell, even acronyms, so I do know that replacing one letter in HSV and making it HPV completely changes what we're talking about-- my point was that since there are various strains of HPV, that, AS A VIRUS, it would not be as far fetched to say that there's various strains of HSV that have varying levels of strength and resistence. I do not know this for a fact; it was a hypothesis, and a thought that perhaps some viruses can, in fact, not just go dormant, but disappear entirely.

as far as gene therapy goes, I'm not going to look for a miracle, nor am I going to question every part of the body because there's just way too many variables. Doesn't cancer have mutated genes and an ineffective repair process? People take care of cancer often enough (not to say it's an easy task but it's not impossible) that citing defective DNA chains isn't the be all/end all argument. Obviously you first have to get yourself healthy enough that you slow down or almost stop the virus from replicating-- a feat in itself, and then from there it's conjecture. Hopefully the part of our body that is supposed to spot and repair defective DNA chains, but we know this isn't something to count on.

I don't think there's anything wrong with being entirely scientific about something, and stating something like "there is no cure" as a fact. Just realize that hope, and anecdotes, and individual bodies with individual treatments all come together to make that fact subjective enough to become opinion.

So to the original poster-- rock on, let us know what happens, and I hope you get that Washington test done. Seems pretty easy, even though it does cost a little over a hundred dollars.