[Is this all normal for genital herpes?? many questions 🤔]

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 👍 

 

[Is this all normal for genital herpes?? many questions 🤔]

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?

[Almost 2 months into second outbreak]

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 🙏 .

[Does hair removal trigger herpes outbreaks?]

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. 

[Is this all normal for genital herpes?? many questions 🤔]

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

[Is this all normal for genital herpes?? many questions 🤔]

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  😂

[Is this all normal for genital herpes?? many questions 🤔]

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

[Is this all normal for genital herpes?? many questions 🤔]

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