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I had shingles in high school...maybe that made me more susceptible to hsv!?? I dunno! All very odd! I haven't had another OB since starting lysine and the pain on my left side is easing. Go us 🙂

I'm glad I found this forum. I'm a black woman and got diagnosed when I was younger. My initial OB was very mild, to the point where the dr thought I was lying about not having a worse OB previously! I had about 3 or 4 OBs after being diagnosed and then it completely disappeared. So for 9 years I had no OB or prodomes. Then I became pregnant and got one sore 2 weeks before my due date! I was freaking out. My dr put me on acyclovir for 2 weeks and it healed up nicely and I was able to have a natural birth with no issues. My child was born healthy. 🙂 My situation atm is not so rosy however. A few years ago I had an operation I have been having OBs every other month. I've had 2 rounds of antivirals and on both occasions I've got an OB directly after stopping. My dr said if I get another one he'll refer me to a specialist. Ideally I would love if I could go back to the days when I had no OBs!! I'm trying to make changes to reduce the OBs, I've started taking lysine and stopped snacking on nuts. I put on baby weight over so I'm working on losing that. I also have a pretty stressful job so I'm moving jobs soob. Hopefully that will help. I'm dealing with ongoing pain on the left side of my body, and everyday I wake up it's there and I feel disheartened. I try and remember that it could be much worse and that I have a lovely healthy child when things could have been so different.