Supplements????

[Winifred87]

I have been reading about supplements that can help with suppressive therapy. Lysine and olive leaf. Anyone taking these to help? 

I also found a research that was done in 1993 on 6 people with genital outbreak treating the sores with olive leaf extract and the sores disappearing with in 2-3days. Link is below

https://www.olivus.com/herpes_olive_tea.htm

Thoughts? 

[_a_rayofsunshine_]

Yes, i take l-lsyine, vitamin C & d3, liquid chlorophyll and echinacea and goldenseal. Outbreaks do leave in 2-3 days. 

If i am consistent with the supplements, then i dont get any outbreaks or its prodrome symptoms. 

Diagnosed a year ago. Started this a month later.

[Gibouep]

Hi. I had also read that l-lysine was helpful but then another article said that it was only proven to be good against hsv-1 and not hsv-2.  Because of this I haven't tried it.  Is anyone taking lysine and also hsv-2 and having good results?

[mr_hopp]

With Lysine, you'll find people who swear by it and others who say it does nothing. (Personally, it didn't have any measurable effect for me.) There's not a lot of science behind it being helpful in keeping outbreaks at bay, but there is plenty of anecdotal evidence from folks who say it definitely works. So try it out. See if it works for you. Couldn't hurt!