Help! Looking for something to shorten my outbreaks!

[vegadon]

I would love suggestions for any products to try to shorten an outbreak. I have tried epsom salts and topical lidocaine but they only help after an outbreak and sometimes doesn't work. Has anyone used something to stop outbreaks?

[ihaveittoo]

Check out this blog for more info on various remedies http://supporttruthanddialog.com/

 

 

antivirals are the most effective means I know of. Talk to your doctor about acyclovir, Valtrex and famvir. I always had good results with acyclovir. You can take them episodicly. Or you can take them suppresively. Episodicly is when you take them at the first sign of an outbreak. Suppresively you take a daily dose every day.

 

 

[WCSDancer2010]

Thanks for passing my blog info on @ihaveittoo ..

 

These links should help too @vegadon....

 

I suggest you keep a journal of what you are eating, activities, stressors, etc ... see if you can see a pattern for what makes it worse. I often say that Herpes is like a "first responder" to the health of your body ... although in the first few months, it's often just that your body needs time to figure out how to get it under control.

 

Second - attack it from the outside ... I'm going to put a bunch of links but generally Epsom Salts baths (drop a double handful of the salts between your legs so its concentrated there), followed by thorough drying (even using a hair drier to get it really dry), maybe going commando, and using Bactine (which helps to kill the virus AND numb it thanks to the lidocaine in it) ... or my favorite, Ammonium Alum ... but there's LOTS of suggestions in the links. I find if you attack it from the outside, the inside can do it's job better :)

 

http://herpeslife.com/herpes-forum/discussion/6024/dealing-with-outbreaks#latest includes links below

http://supporttruthanddialog.com/easy-simple-self-help-tips-for-relief-from-herpes-outbreaks/

http://herpeslife.com/herpes-forum/discussion/4810/bactine-for-oral-and-even-genital-herpes

http://herpeslife.com/herpes-treatment/

http://herpeslife.com/herpes-medication/

 

http://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment/2010/genital-ulcers.htm#hsv

 

Links to some of the items suggested in the links

http://amzn.to/1CHUzZE Link to Alum

http://tinyurl.com/Aloecream

http://amzn.to/1F10r3V Fractionated Coconut Oil

http://bit.ly/zincsoap Zinc Soap with coconut oil

http://bit.ly/Zinccream

http://bit.ly/Calendula_Salve

http://tinyurl.com/bactine

http://tinyurl.com/Oragelsgldose

http://tinyurl.com/DMSO4HSV

 

[vegadon]

Thank you so much @ihaveittoo and @WCSDancer2010! I will definitely look these up!