Dangermouse

The teas and vits are hopefully helping but won't do me any harm getting the goodness any way 😊 It's just pain in one wee area where an ulcer has healed so could just be nerves fingers crossed 🤞 I do still have slight numbness but it's improving. Thanks for your input 👍

Hi again, for a few days now I'm feeling a sore bit on my lower labia where an ulcer was previously before but nothing there now. I'm worried as it's the same feeling I had when I had them but not seeing anything at all and I'm checking every day 😕. Could this be another possible outbreak or just slowly healing?

Hiya! When I have my first outbreak last month ( still healing as there's a sore/uncomfortable spot on my labia where an ulcer was) I was sitting in a tub of salt water and cleansing with a cotton pad and drying with a hairdryer🤷‍♀️. I mixed 3 drops of teetree oil with 8 drops jajoba oil and that all gave me instant relief. I hope this helps you and you recover soon 🙏 .

Hi all 😊 Just a wee question regarding hair removal down below. In the past, I have always shaved but have the fear that it may trigger another outbreak as I've just healed from my very first one. (Ooooft, that was a nightmare). I've heard waxing and laser can be a trigger but what about hair removal creams? Anyone had experience of doing this and was there an flare up? I like to have no hair at all around the genital region as it makes me itchy and uncomfortable. Thanks.

Thanks folks. The itchiness from where largest portion of out break was is driving me mad. There's no open sores there now but still a bit red and tender if I itch it. I got myself heaps of vitamins and teas to help me along

Thankyou for the reassurance. I didn't have any sores near my anus and can't see any now. Just incredibly itchy and red but painful if I itch too much. My doctor fobbed me off onto the sexual health clinic as "that's more their expertise " so seen the consultants/nurses there. The only other thing I can think of is when I was "peeing" I had to push/force it out so perhaps that put stress on my bowel area 🤔. I dipped my urine at work and no signs of a uti. I've not worn knickers for a month and getting a bit too use to it 😂

Also I'm still quite numb in the area of outbreak, anyone know how long that would last for? Been a month now x

Hiya all, new to the forum and G.H type 2 in general. I had coronavirus so I'm guessing that having my immune system compromised has caused my awful primary outbreak. I went to my sexual health clinic and they confirmed it was G.H so been given acyclovir to take 3 times a day. After the sores appeared on my right side, my labia got really swollen and I had to take time off work as I couldn't walk or sit and had the prodrome aches in my leg and bum cheek. Fast forward a few days and I found salt water baths and a few drops of teetree oil and jajoba oil instantly soothed the uncomfortable pain (yey). Labia swelling has gone down but I began struggling to pass urine or empty bladder properly so was given 800mg acyclovir to take 5 times a day 😮‍💨. Not cured but getting there slowly. It has been a month now. still slight marks on inner and outer labia and never going away prodrome legs but 3 days ago I had crazy red burning itching all over my vagina. needed to just claw at it (applying canasten external cream and had a pessary for possible thrush along with teetree+ jajoba oil)and itchy red bum hoop 😫 Passing stools every day but uncomfortable when exiting. Now today....I feel like I'm getting prodrome symptoms on my other side now too!! The achey legs and a tender spot on other side of my vagina although I'm still taking antivirals. Is all this normal. I work in hospital doing long different shift patterns and think this could not be helping with stress/immune outbreaks. Taking vitamins and all that but it's really bringing me down if I have to go through a second outbreak so soon. Thanks for reading