The Lone Ranger

I was on Prednisone for 21 days for chronic sinusitis and ended up getting my first outbreak ever. I exercised very poor judgement by hooking up with someone with a very noticeable cold sore on their lip and had enough common sense not to kiss them but let them perform oral sex on me. Worried that I contracted Herpes I went to my urologist about 4 - 6 wks later for a blood test and he said it was negative for HSV1 so I thought "whew what a relief that is"!! Ffwd to October of that same year when my ENT prescribed Prednisone for 21 days and tpwards the end of the dosage I ended up with genital herpes from the HSV1 virus and it was quite painful. Got on Valtrex. Ffwd to this March and had another outbreak while on no steroids but was on Cipro for a " possible" UTI. I do believe diet can DEFINITELY TRIGGER RECURRENT OUTBREAKS. I noticed that I did have a fair amount of chocolate peanut butter pie one wkd ( 4 pieces) then within another week had 2 more scoops of peanut butter prior to that second outbreak. The Infectious Disease doctor I went to told me that you get recurrent outbreaks when your immune system is weak or compromised not from certain foods but I'm not so sure about that!!