Having a hard time interpreting symptoms

[Navigating this new normal]

Recently diagnosed with hsv-1 and find myself paranoid everything is a pre-OB symptom. Need some help.

first diagnosed about 2.5 weeks ago with painful lesions on my labia. They cleared up about 1.5 weeks ago and I’ve been taking daily suppressing valtrex since. Since they cleared up though I’ve been having tingling feelings, especially on my butt cheeks, and then the last four days I’ve had increased discharge again like during my first OB and lots of itching and feelings of anal fissure. I’ve been inspecting compulsively though and no bumps or lesions, and no pain. 
Is this just after affects of the first OB? Is this a second OB? Is this signs a second OB is coming? 
Looking for some reassurance. I’m worried I had sex too soon after. I had sex a little over a week after the lesions cleared and that’s when the itching and tingling really started. 

[mr_hopp]

The itching and tingling is in line with what a lot of folks report for prodrome symptoms (especially tingling in the butt). Those won’t always result in an outbreak, but it does mean the virus is “waking up” and traveling from the base of your spine through your nerves. It’s going to be hard to get a definitive answer on without swabbing the area in question to see if it’s actually shedding HSV-1 virus, and even then it might be shedding an amount of virus at the time of swabbing that would be undetectable.

The good news is that this sort of experience you describe for the vast majority of people only happens in the first 6 months (a year at most) as your body is busy building up antibodies. Be patient with yourself and your body’s healing capabilities. It will get easier and less confusing with time, I promise.