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That is so true, my new doctor is so uneducated about herpes. I gave her my results and she told me "don't worry about it. Sometimes things like that just happen and come back positive." I was shocked when she said that, so I started doing my own research.

Did you ask your doctor about those side effects? Were you contagious or anything during that time while you were on Valtrex?

@katidid it's weird! I will call my doctor tomorrow, because it's annoying. Thanks

Thanks for the information! :-)

If it's making me tingle, does that mean I'm shedding and active?

Every time I take Valtrex my leg and behind starts to tingle as if I am shedding or about to have an OUTBREAK, but an outbreak never happens just the tingling of my skin m. Is the tingling a side effect of the Vsltrex, could Valtrex be making me shed, or I'm I shedding? It only happens when I take my Valtrex. I have been taking it for 7 days now. Thanks.

Thanks JeffH, since my diagnosis I really haven't be able to get much information from my new doctor thanks again

Hey everyone, I'm new here and wanted to share my story. The guy that I was we were together 9 years. I didn't start dating or having sex until I was 20 and he was my first and my first boyfriend. When we met it was great, we waited a year before having sex. We had fun. We traveled, we was always doing something fun together. 3 years after being together, he started acting weird, my gut told me something wasn't right. So I went with my gut. After 3 years of dating I found out he was indeed cheating and had been cheating the entire time we were together.. I broke it off and we stayed apart for 6 months. He kept calling and calling and eventually called one of my family member and they called me and told me he was crying because I would speak to him. I didn't by that and I ignored it. It began to email me. He emailed me this long drawn out email explaining everything. We talked via email for a while before going on a date. 5 more years pasted and he was and emotional roll coaster. It's like when we got back together he changed for the worst, he was verbally and mentally abusive and it got physical twice and was still cheating. He would always put me down and make me feel I was worthless. I cried more than I smiled. I tried to get out of the relationship but it was like something had me hooked. (I'm thinking because he was my first bf and my first is why I couldn't get out, it was like a mental hold) finally after 5 years. Well in 2010, I went for my yearly lady checkup and I was get tested. Ever since 2003 I always had negative results. Well 2010 was a shocker, it came back positive for HPV, if that wasn't worst enough I had a spot on my cervix that looked like cancer. After receiving the news the same day my doctor she asked me to come in so she could biopsy the area. I didn't want to go alone so I told him the results and he freaked. Calling me a lie and telling me that I probably cheated. I couldn't get a word in to explain to him the HPV virus I couldn't even tell him that she needs to do a Biopsy. He hung up on me and I ended up going to the doctor alone. Went in for my biopsy and the results came back negative. What a relief, but she still wanted the spot removed because it didn't look good. Eventually he called and was calm and I explained it to him. A couple of weeks later he decided he would travel with myself and my family for me to go have surgery. After the surgery, he was distant and eventually we broke up. I was hurt. Well in beginning of 2011-2012 he came back asking to look at engagement rings and property to build because he prayed and know that he's ready. We found properties but thank God we didn't buy and we found the ring but i told him let's hold off on getting that. I had a gut feeling at that time something wasn't right. So I acted on that gut feeling I told him something felt off about him. He get upset of course because he said he ready and now I'm not. I told him something wasn't right. Soon after that he text me out of the blue and told me we needed to talk. I knew it was coming. He told me to meet him at a park well when I got there he didn't show, but he began to text me. He told me he has been cheating and still is cheating. He said at that time he had two girls pregnant and that if I could lol pass that we could stay together. I didn't respond. I immediately went Change my number, email address, etc. that day is the day I took my life back, well I thought I was done with him. 2012 I went to my yearly again and told my doctor the entire story, she told me let's start your life over by getting tested again. Keep in mind for the last years I have not had a nothing positive expect for HPV. So she did the test and said she'll call in a few weeks. Well I got the call, everything was negative, but she told me she didn't two extra test that she doesn't normally do and it a test for herpes 1 & 2 and they came back positive. I was numb, after I decided to permanently leave him in the past I ended up taking a bit of him with me. She ask me a few question and him I told her I had felt something on him genital a few times and I made the appointment for him to go get test and he said the doctor said he was nothing. So he was actually lying to me and Intentionally pass on the HSV virus to me. After that I didn't date for 6 years because I am scared I might pass it on to someone else. He was my first and my first boyfriend. I felt hate for him at first, but I couldn't mentally heal hating him. After I forgave him mentally and released the hate I felt a lot better. I have spoken or saw him in 6 years. I'm happy now and able to cope with the fact that I have herpes. LET ME TELL YOU ITS HARD TO FORGIVE when you know someone intentionally gave you a STI. It's been 5 years since being diagnosed and I have had and OB my doctor told me I may have built up enough antibodies and my body is fighting it off. I do have tingling in my legs. Plus I have sciatica, so the tingling could be either or. So that's my story. I know staying with him was dumb, but when it's your first it's hard to let go in the beginning but when you finally free yourself it feels awesome.

So I could have tingling and nerve pain and not have an OB? Am I contagious when I'm having symptoms without an OB? And yes, I was very shocked that my new doctor basically told me that's just one of those things that can happen on blood work and told me don't worry about it. I even called back to question them and she just told me just take the meds if you feel a Symptom. And thanks so much for responding HikingGirl

Found out 4 years ago i had hsv2, but i never had a OB. My doctor was just ending her practice so she just discussed it with me over the phone. She said the level were like 5.3 for hsv2. I explained to her that I never experience any signs or getting an OB. She explained that maybe it's laying dormant. She prescribed me valtrex and I never say her again bc she retired. In 2016, I found any other doctor and explained to her my diagnosis with HSV1 and 2. I explained I never got an OB FOR either one and her response was don't worry about it results can be deceiving which really confuses me. I have read plenty and how they describe herpes I have never experienced none of the symptoms. I have sciatic nerve problems so sometimes my legs and behind my tingle but nothing related to herpes. Could that have been a false positive? Never had a oral hsv1 and never had a OB of HSV2! Confused.

Hi I am new to h forum, I was diagnosed with HSV2 in 2014, but never got an OB. Just recently I was working out and when I got home I discovered a few little blister bumps to the left of my Clitoris they didn't hurt and were not sensitive to touch. I never even noticed they were there until I was bathing. No sign or symptoms. I discovered the blister bumps at 7pm and by 7am they had burst and I could see a little sore that had crusted. I bathed as usual and the crust came off. Still not itching or burning. sense it has started healing two fine hair has surfaced from the healing sore and now it itches a little, but the sore is almost completely healed. Could this herpes or hair bumps. FYI I don't normally wear underwear with my tights during exercise. If it is herpes am I contagious when the sore has almost faded ? I'm confused because have never had an OB.