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  1. Hi Positive Herbivore, I too have been recently diagnosed and have been a vegetarian for only a year now. I generally eat quite well but have not given up on my little sweet treats or bread and have almond milk on my cereal and in my tea and drink coffee sometimes too. As far as OBs are concerned, I can't really say that I've identified my triggers, maybe because my two OBs following my initial one, have been very small and brief so I've not really been looking out for what might have caused them. I'm taking a few vitamins; Vitamin C + zinc, Vitamin B12, Echinacea & Lysine (although I've stopped taking the Lysine for the time being). It seems that some foods affect some people and not others.
  2. Ok, so I am suspecting that this is a recent infection of HSV 2 that the swabs picked up on so if this is the case, the guy that gave it to me was either 1) unaware that he had it or 2) lying and knew that he had (I later found out that he has a reputation of juggling women and he had recently been with someone else weeks before me) so my money would be on hypothesis number 2.
  3. Hi Adrial and thanks for replying. So does that mean that the HSV 1 was lying dormant in me and I only just had my initial OB when I was infected with the HSV2 recently? So I may have both 1 & 2 then? There not being enough detectableantibodies for the HSV 2 would indicate, there for that I was recently infected with it as the swab results indicated?
  4. Hi all, So I must be about 11-12 weeks in after having had my first OB at the end of September. The sexual helath clinic that I first went to and got swabbed by told me that I had contracted HSV 2 but according to the blood test results I've just received in the post today, and if I'm reading it correctly, I've been detected as having HSV 1. It reads thus: HSV-1/2 IgG: Detected HSV-2 IgG Not Detected Serological evidence of prior Herpes simplex virus type 1 infection at some time. The blood test was done at St Thomas' Hospital in London so I'd have thought their findings would have been more accurate. Also, when it states "prior" infection at "some time" do they mean prior as quite a while back or recent? I'm confused!
  5. Funny you should connect the Acyclovir with constipation because when I had my first outbreak (not long ago now; 8/9 weeks ago) I was put on Acyclovir 800mg 5 times a day for a week I did have constipation. I also ended up with one solitary hemorrhoid that gave me more trouble than the outbreak itself and at first, I wasn't quite sure whether the tingling and itchiness was part and parcel of the OB or hemmrohids. I went to see my dr who examined me and said that it was definitely a hemmrhoid and not part of the OB. The hemmrohoid has only now cleared up thanks to me applying LomaHerpan cream on it that I ordered from the Herpes Virusses Association. I took stool softners for a while and drank (still drink) loads of water as water is good for you anyway. Hope it's completely cleared up for you now.
  6. I absolutely love your Harry Potter sorting hat analogy. It's absolutely brilliant and a great way of looking at our situation. :-) I know you're going to be fine, no matter what the outcome. If he's a wise man and a good listener he will hear you out and realise that you are still the wonderful lady that he's fallen. The H is nothing to really fear, what is to fear is the stigma and negative conotations that people attach to it. When all is said and done, it's a virus that, from time to tim, gives us OB (for some they may be more severe than for others) but at the end of the day there are ways to deal with it and the OB do not change the people that we were prior to having been diagnosed with it (hell, some of us were probably living with it already but were showing no physical signs of having it!), so you hold your head high girl and keep that "I'm worth it" attitude because you are. (((HUGS)))
  7. I just found this article online http://www.thehelpernewsletter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55:testing-winter-2009&catid=176:herpes-testing&Itemid=237 It's interesting that they say the following about the index value, in particular about the lower index value: “People use the index value incorrectly in a couple of ways,” Morrow explains. “One is that they infer that a low index value means that infection has occurred recently. Any thoughts on this? I've searched online with regards to index values and the IgG blood test and this is the only one I've found so far that makes reference to the index value and it's interpretation as to determining whether an infection is a new or established one. By the way, my GP has written me out a blood test request for the IgG test and I will be going to have it done tomorrow. She's unsure, however, that the local hospital will actually do this test.
  8. Actually I'm pretty sure that the bloods were taken to look for any other STIs and that it wasn't an IgG but I'm going to phone the clinic and have them clarify it. They didn't tell me what type it was either, whether it was 1 or 2, so I'll have them clarify that too. The only thing they said for sure, was that it was herpes. It's worrying how much they don't explain. I'd said, at the appointment, how I'd read online, that I knew the virus could lie dormant for years and voiced my concern as to whether I'd been infected by my latest partner who had also been hospitalized for sepsis or whether I'd had it lying dorman in me for years and contracted it from any previous partners. The dr didn't seemed concerned and just ignored what I'd just said. Thanks to you both, optimist and Sil88 for your replies. I will definitely keep you both updated with the outcome of my talk with the GUM clinic.
  9. Hi Optimist, Thanks for your reply. How would I go about getting an IgG blood test? Would my local GUM clinic (sexual health clinic) do one on request? I did have a blood test as well as having swabs taken that then subsequently came back as HSV positive. I would really like to know whether it was him or whether I'd contracted it years ago and that it was lying dormant all this time. He may well have just had a bladder infection (they checked his kidneys and said that they were fine) and the HSV may not have then been transmitted to me by him. I know that the sepsis has knocked him for six and that he was, and probably still is, very ill with it.
  10. I hear what you're saying, MMissouri. It was strange, however, that he fell ill within a few days of me and with similar symptoms. Granted, his symptoms were more severe than mine but we were both ill at the same time which makes me suspect that he has got some kind of STI as well. I was tested for all the other STIs and they all came back clear. I think he needs to be retested in 3 months time to get a more accurate diagnoses re the Herpes though.
  11. Not only was he a liar, MMissouri, but I later found out that he's a womaniser. He dumped me via Whattsaap after having distanced himself via Whatsaap messaging with the excuse of, "Give me some time and distance, I'm trying to sort myself out and feel confused after having just come out of hospital". I totally understood and told him I'd give him the space he needed and that I would be there to support him etc., then out of the blue one evening he just Whatsapped me with the words, "sorry, it's over". I phoned him and told him under no uncertain terms was he going to take the cowards way out and dump me like that with no real explanation. I demanded to know why he was dumping me and he said that whilst he was in hospital (see my sepsis post) he started thinking of his ex gf in Italy (he later told me, when I went to confront him face to face that they'd broken up in the August and that he got with me immediately after at the beginning of September). I've since learnt that he is a womaniser and has a reputation amongst the Italian community where he lives. His family live in the town where I live and I guess they didn't know about his shenanigans with other women in his town so it came as a shock to them that he had treated me so badly. They learnt of the whole herpes thing because I told them about it and told them that this was his parting gift to me.
  12. I think herpes, in some way, shape or form, does sometimes cause piles and digestive problems. I think it's prudent taking some kind of supplements to help with strengthen the immune system. I'm taking vitamin C by eating lots of clementines and kiwis as I love them.
  13. Hi Sil, Yes, that's what I'd thought and told him as much when I last saw him and had it out with him (he'd dumped me via Whatsapp and I wasn't having any of that) so I turned up at his place and told him, amongst other things, that he would have to get tested in 3 months time again as it was possibly too early to be picked up. I too am skeptical, however, that he ever actually got tested. Whether he goes back to get tested in 3 months time or not I won't actually know as we have gone our separate ways but one thing is for sure; if he keeps being in denile he'll just keep on infecting other women that he sleeps with and believe me, I found out too late that he's a womaniser! Thanks for your reply, Sil.
  14. That is interesting. I would put good money on it that he has actually got the big H despite him saying that his test came back negative. He may have either tested too early and came up with a false negative or he's an out and out liar. I'd go with the latter of the two.
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