Totally feel your ‘pain’ 😞
As soon as I start to feel anything that resembles an outbreak I stop eating sugar entirely.(actually I try to eat none because for me an OB isn’t worth some M&Ms) Umm I’m not sure if it’s science but I think the virus seems to use that fuel most efficiently. So I stop all sugar, take a probiotic (since 80% of you immune system is in your gut and that IS science), take vit D which helps your body differentiate betweeen the good guys and the bad and not overreact. I think a lot of the nerve type pain is really your body fighting hard back with disregard to what it’s killing.
Most of the time that will stop the pain in one day. And you can sometimes prevent it if you can catch earlier sumptoms before you get to the ‘OMG the virus is moving up and down my nerves until they are raw’ stage. For me that’s often craving sugar- or feeling like I might have a UTI coming on- so watch for that.
I’ve had success (going from 12 to 1 OB per year) with taking gigartina red algae as immune support close to daily. I’m not a big fan of the big pharma anti-virals. You can also grab some oregano oil- or olive leaf. Oregano oil is an antimicrobial and the olive leaf interrupts the virus multiplication which in turn eases the resulting outbreak. I don’t use either of those daily though- just as needed.
Carmen