Skip to content

r/Herpes↗

Hello, r/Herpes is open and welcomes you. This group is a resource for people living with Herpes. We encourage everyone, patients and professionals, to have a dialogue here about advocacy, cure, treatment and prevention. We encourage discussion about clinical trials, research and news on the path to change. This is also a place to discuss relationships, diagnosis issues, your health and symptoms.

56k subscribers1,425 posts / mo in Sep 20261,091 authors / mosince 2009

r/Herpes has 56k members (+25% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,425 posts a month from 1,091 people. Top topics: Rejected Students, Pharmacy Challenges and Shedding Season.

Free report

When to post on r/Herpes

You've used today's free reports

Visitors without an account can open 3 subreddit reports a day. The best time to post on r/Herpes, removal risk and the rest of the report are one step away.

Size and growth

How r/Herpes has grown

r/Herpes

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+25%in 12 months · +5.1% in 3 months · +1.3% in 1 month
Oct 202655k
Growing55k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/Herpes

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+6.0%vs Sep 2025 · +7.3% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20261.4k
BusierPeaked at 2.3k in Oct 2022
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/Herpes

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Rejected Students<0.1%
  2. Pharmacy Challenges<0.1%
  3. Shedding Season<0.1%
  4. Stuck Shed Help<0.1%
  5. Podcast Episodes<0.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Change
  2. JAMA Otolaryngology
  3. World Health Organization
  4. ScienceDirect
  5. STD Center NY

The full report

Everything else about r/Herpes

Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research