TXwoman

Have y'all noticed that the outbreaks come in "cycles"? I was diagnosed a little over a year ago and for a while I kept getting outbreaks a couple times a month. Then I had a nice break of about 5 months with no issues (after I addressed some bacterial vaginosis and yeast and got things healthy). I messed up and used birth control pills to change when my period was coming...stopping the pill caused an outbreak. Now a few weeks later, I am getting another one and I didn't have any exposure to my normal triggers that I know of. I'm wondering if now that I've had one outbreak, I am prone to more because my body hasn't completely "calmed down" from the last one? I may have to start taking valtrex suppressively again.

Bacterial vaginosis

Hi all, thought I would share what seems to be an improvement. I was diagnosed with hsv2 about 6 months ago. I really struggled with constant outbreaks despite taking acyclovir. Having sex was a definite trigger and I seemed to always be getting red and itchy. Fast forward and I got a pap and was told I had bacterial vaginosis. I got treated for that and then got a yeast infection that went away and then came back. During all this it hit me that a lot of redness and itchy I had been experiencing so much of could have been BV and/or yeast. Sure enough, now that all that is cleared up and I am on probiotics and kefir, I am not getting the constant "prodrome" symptoms. I also switched to valtrex for suppressive therapy because it was hard to remember to take acyclovir twice a day. Now it's been a month and half with no outbreak and I have had sex twice in that time. Hoping this continues and that I finally have this under control!!!

Hi everyone, I recently was with a couple at a swingers party...they said they were clean...I asked to use a condom but the guy wound up taking it off later. Which my friend informed me is actually a form of rape. So I'm kind of a mess about that right now. 6 days later I had two ulcer like sores on the inside of of my inner labia. I probably had them there before then, but it wasn't until I felt some discomfort during a shower and used a magnifying mirror to look that I could actually see them. I went in the next day and got a culture and bloodwork. The bloodwork was negative but the culture was positive for HSV2. I was started on acycolovir and I also started taking Vitamin E, Lysine and Olive leaf extract. I was uncomfortable for a couple of days, especially while peeing, but nothing too horrible. They were completely healed about a week later (they never scabbed over, just sort of slowly closed up). My question is, are there any cons to taking suppressive therapy? I've heard that outbreaks are the worst for the first year, and since I may still have sex on occassion (hopefully), I want to reduce the chance of spreading it. But if I go on suppressive medicine, will that cause my body to not build up its own immune response to it? Like say I take the suppressive meds for a year, and then go off of them, will my body then have lots of outbreaks similar to a person in the first year of having it? I was also wondering since my outbreak wasn't too bad (just two ulcers and cleared within a week with meds), does that mean I will have fewer and less intense outbreaks than someone with a worse initial outbreak? Will I always experience outbreaks in the same area? In my case, the inside of my inner labia? Or will it potentially be on the outside of my vagina at a later date? Does shedding happen more or exclusively in the area where outbreaks have occurred?