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My Dr just put me on bcp but I'm afraid to take them if they will cause an ob. What is your experience?

I am 10 months into my Dx of herpes. I had a swan test that came back +, but other than the horrific outbreak I had the first time, I have not had ant symptoms of ob at all. I have gone through things that would almost guarantee an ob but haven't gotten so much as a tingle. I am wondering if maybe this means I have type 1. Whet test can I ask for to see what type I have?

Hello, is been nearly a year since I posted and I wanted to say hi and give an update on my progress. I have not had a single OB since my first one. I went to the Dr when I thought I was having another and he looked and said I was being paranoid. Since my Dx/outbreak I have returned to eating everything I used to. Coffee even. I don't limit myself on anything due to fear of an outbreak. I have had a very stressful life, lost my house, separated from my husband, moved across a few states, had 2 surgeries and gotten a new job. I have done all of this without taking any suppressive meds or changing my life in any way. I am kinda wondering why? Not that I am complaining, but I thought that I'd have more issues? Why haven't I broken out like so many do? Why can I eat and drink as I want with out worrying about an ob? I am in a new relationship with someone who isn't H+ and he still wants me. I am afraid that I will give it to him though. He says he is willing to risk it, but how do I keep that risk to a minimum? I intend to start taking acyclovir every day, but what else do I do? Also, how do I know if I have H1 or H2? Anyways I just wanted to say thanks for being there for me when I needed it and see if anyone had any answers about why I am the way I am as far as ob goes

lol, I am glad you like my name, tho I chose it because it is my last name and I felt like I was broken/used up and no where near who I used to be before I got my Dx. I am doing so much better emotionally now. I haven't had any more symptoms or anything since I started the daily meds and stayed away from coffee. I even managed to catch a very ugly cold and not have an OB. I am waiting for my first period since I have had everything cleared up to see if it is going to be effected. thanks for the links Aerial.

i started taking my meds on a daily basis and have not had any more coffee and the tingles went away and all the sores too. I am not 100% sure but I think both times I started feeling the itches/tingles were when I had coffee the day before. both times I had coffee I had reasoned that I was on the meds and at the end of a cycle so I should be "protected" from another OB. since I stopped having even 1 cup of coffee, I am so much better.

I go back to the Dr in the morning, I have finished my second course of meds and even before I finished them I was already getting a couple of sores, now I have the intense itching again and can not tell if I am having another OB or if this is the same one, it is so hard to tell where one ends and another begins. I thought that after taking meds that I would have a regular progression of what should happen, but I seem to have 3 different stages of things going in different parts. the first OB is totally healed and all I have left are scars that I hope will fade. then I have a few spots that have gone to looking like pimples but they aren't weeping or anything (I put colloidal silver on them and it seems to help them heal really fast) and then in another place(s) I have intense itching, like I am getting ready to break out again. I am so confused. oh and I have one tiny spot on my ass that from the amount of pain and itching it is doing you would think it was the size of a quarter rather than the size of a pin head :S I really appreciate that you guys are here and encouraging me and others. I am not usually so down but I cant seem to pull myself out of this slump. I am not finding joy in anything at this point.

I am having the same issue, I cant tell when one ob is ending and another is starting. I am once again on my last day of meds and am having the intense itching again and have spotted a couple of possible spots. I am having a hard time because usually I keep everything hair free and I have been so scared to shave or use nair because my first OB seems to be where I usually got razor burn and it was so awful and painful. i am itchy anyways from the hair but the i start to worry if it is a "regular" itch, or an OB itch. I go back to the dr on Friday and i am hoping for good news, like that i am OB free for the moment and i can have sex again. (only with the guy who gave it to me tho, no new partners) i am still pretty depressed and upset most days. you can def tell there is something going on with me if you know me at all. i am usually so happy, but this diagnosis feels like it is a curse. i had just began to dream about my future after being trapped in a physical and emotionally abusive relationship for most of my life. i finally got out of that relationship and started sleeping with a guy i know. i knew that i wasn't going to be able to be with the guy i was sleeping with long term, but he is a wonderful guy and i wish there could have been a future for us. i was just getting my feet wet and trying out being single. i knew the next guy i dated that i wanted to be able to at least consider having a future with, and now... i feel like no matter what, i am going to be seen as diseased and used up first and then as a person, a bad person, and that i am trapped again, by my own stupid choices. i had just begun to feel free and now i am caged with no way out.

thank you. :) my dr office called in another rx just to be careful since I am now having the flashes of pain in my nerves like I did with the first round. I just started taking it, so hopefully I can nip this in the bud if it is a second outbreak, and if not, well I don't think it will hurt me to take another round of meds

I am new to all of this, I just found out last week that I have it and I just had my first outbreak. now, 3 days after I finished my pills, it looks like I am starting to get another outbreak. I see tiny red dots around the nearly healed older outbreak and I am starting to itch again. Also, I have one or 2 spots that never healed on my peri area. I also feel like I am getting sick again, runny nose, tired, sore lymph nodes. I guess my question is can I get another outbreak so soon after finishing the meds? or is this just a continuation of the first one? I am so confused about all of this. the guy I was sleeping with and I both came down with symptoms, him first then me within a few days of each other, but neither one of us had ever had any symptoms before this and both had/have no clue who gave it to who or how we got it. he seems to be ok, just a few small sores, but I ended up with almost 30 and now I think I am getting another outbreak while he is pretty much fine. I am depressed and sad and have lost my "sparkle". any help/advice/encouragement is greatly appreciated..