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On Jan 12, 2004 I was diagnosed with genital herpes. I think I've probably had the weirdest outbreaks ever. Here's the deal. When I first noticed something was wrong (last week in Dec., 2003) I was just sore down there then about a week later a couple of sores appeared. As of today, Feb. 25, 2004, I'm still on my initial outbreak! Isn't that unusually long? The things I do and take help, but I keep breaking out just before I completely heal. Here's something even more puzzling. I only get a sore or two in that area that lasts about a couple of days. Usually I don't have any sores there. The main problem has been a big spot just below my left knee. I also have a persistent spot on my left butt cheek. The itching lets me know more sores are coming up.

My treatment consists of drinking 64oz of water daily, Lysine @ 3,000mg/daily, garlic capsules @ 2,000mg/daily, the "Never an Outbreak" treatment @ 8 drops of stabilized oxygen 3x/daily/3hrs. apart in 8oz of water or juice and DMSO cream applied to all areas 2-3x/daily. Anybody have any idea what's up?

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me too

I was diagnosed (HSV2) around the same time you were (mid-Jan). I haven't had any sexual contact at all since back in November. The first ob I noticed was Jan. 8th but was very mild and it was the prodrome that led me to get tested. Unmistakable tingling. The ob wasn't all that severe but it seems like it has lasted forever cuz I can still see where it was. The area is a little red and where the bumps were, you can still see little circles that look like bumps(smooth though). It was freaking me out so I went to the Dr today and showed him. he said its not an outbreak but just damaged skin tissue from where the first ob erupted, no scabs or blisters since the first ob. I don't know if this is you or not.

Back in November I went surfing for a week straight and got bad rashes on my inner thighs and skinned my knee. This is normal but the rashes took an abnormal amount of time to heal and I noticed they itched and were red when i had my first noticeable ob in Jan. I too think there is some kind of connection and sometimes wonder if the reason my first noticeable ob on my genitals was so mild. Maybe the rashes on my legs took the brunt of it? i just don't know, this is such a wierd disease and nobody knows how the little bugger operates from person to person. Just wanted you to know yur not alone.

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Im not sure what is going on with my body, but something is up? I had my second ob on march 13, eventually the sore bump went away but the swelling did not. I am still swollen!!! I went to the gyno last week and he told me that it wasn't a continous ob that the swelling was from a bacterial infection and prescribed me some cream. Well, today is my last treatment of the cream antibotic and I am still just as swollen. What is wrong with me? Has anyone experienced swelling at time of an ob? I think maybe I should go to another gyno? I wish I could get this thing under wraps whatever it may be.

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I forgot to mention something else he told me....I also had some bumps by my panty line (very close together). I thought it was another ob because i had not shaved, but my gyno told me that the infection would not travel, however I have read that it can. He also told me it would look like a blister and never just a pimple, meanwhile i thought it could look like a pimple or a rash. What's the truth?

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weird places for outbreaks can happen

I get weird outbreaks too, ever since I got diagnosed. My dematologist thinks I'm just making myself sick with worry (which is partially true), and says it doesn't or rarely spreads, but this I know is not true. She isn't well-informed. It seems like since I started taking suppressive valtrex therapy, now whenever I stop an outbreak in one place (using those h-balm oils) another one appears somewhere else now. THe original OB, which recurred three times before I asked a dermatologist what the heck it was, is inactive now. Now I just get surprise outbreaks here and there. On my thigh, on other places on the butt, on my neck, and in the most private place too now. I think it comes from my boyfriend having caressed me all over the place, and inserting his fingers etc. during sex before I knew I had it. It seems to be appearing everywhere that he's touched me after caressing around the original OB area (on my butt cheek, which I thought was an ingrown hair). It's pretty distressing, and I'm wondering how one can treat such a spread out area. Anybody else have that problem?

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better information about weird outbreaks

Hi again. I've been speaking to the national herpes hotline, and this is what they told me about "spreading". Basically, it seems to spread, but actually the outbreaks can simply occur on different places along the path of the nerve or nerves affected. This is why it appears to spread. It can appear anywhere, your butt, your back, your genitals, the thighs, the abdomen, and it's all the same thing. That's why you shouldn't think you've only got it on a place other than the genitals, and are safe to not use a condom. You can still transmit it from the genitals. But unless you have a cut or scratch into which more virus was deposited because of scratching a lesion and then touching that open wound (apparently this can happen to athletes, or maybe from popping a herpes sore thinking it was a pimple and then proceeded to pop another real pimple somewhere else), it doesn't "spread". So, as they told me, don't panic. It's not spreading. This is just how the thing works. I'm so relieved. I felt like a walking contagion till they reassured me. I hope this helps other people.

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better information about weird outbreaks

Hi again. I've been speaking to the national herpes hotline, and this is what they told me about "spreading". Basically, it seems to spread, but actually the outbreaks can simply occur on different places along the path of the nerve or nerves affected. This is why it appears to spread. It can appear anywhere, your butt, your back, your genitals, the thighs, the abdomen, and it's all the same thing. That's why you shouldn't think you've only got it on a place other than the genitals, and are safe to not use a condom. You can still transmit it from the genitals. But unless you have a cut or scratch into which more virus was deposited because of scratching a lesion and then touching that open wound (apparently this can happen to athletes, or maybe from popping a herpes sore thinking it was a pimple and then proceeded to pop another real pimple somewhere else), it doesn't "spread". So, as they told me, don't panic. It's not spreading. This is just how the thing works. I'm so relieved. I felt like a walking contagion till they reassured me. I hope this helps other people.

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