BuckarooBanzai

OH, I should add: My breakout began 72 hours ago. I am taking 400 mg of Acyclovir three times per day. I am EXHAUSTED. I don't mean fatigue. I am in bed sleeping off-and-on all day and all night. Internet informational websites say HSV recurrent outbreaks are not supposed to knock a victim, er patient, down like this. True, initial outbreaks can cause systemic symptoms, but I thought recurrent infections couldn't do this? Does anyone else need to go to bed with outbreaks?

I contracted herpes in January 2017. Got tested, so this is a given. No other Bad Guy infections down there. I am not sexually active. Haven't been in a year. So, I am not picking up new illnesses via intimacy. In August of 2017, I developed sepsis secondary to diverticulitis. Was in the hospital for four days on IV antibiotics, and then sent home for another two weeks of oral antibiotics. Now, it is January 2018. Since sepsis in late August, just 4.5 months ago, I have experienced FOUR HSV infections. Am in the midst of one now, and so taking Acyclovir. When this script is done, I will go on suppression therapy for the next six months. My hypothesis: The sepsis has weakened my immune system and so made me susceptible to frequent outbreaks. Makes me wonder just how susceptible I am to infection, in general! Can anyone speak to this situation?

I've developed sepsis twice in the last five years. Any infection, viral or bacterial, can trigger sepsis. Sepsis is not an illness, in and of itself, but rather the body's reaction to infection. You and I might develop the same bacterial infection, for instance, but my body might respond with a sepsis reaction while yours does not.