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Triggers?? Tanning booths ... sexual activity level


Eliki

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Sorry for duplication, I posted this first in Personal Experiences ... my first time on the site.

I have had genital herpes for 14 years (don't know if 1 or 2), after the inital outbreak I had 1-3 ob a year. I was married for 11 of those years (got the H before meeting husband) and he never caught it, I just went into "herpes alert" mode if I felt the tingling and he kept HIS immune system strong. I never paid much attention to my diet or any of the herpes triggers, it happened so rarely that it was a non-issue. I didn't want to be on a daily med for something that happened so infrequently. I am a naturally organic person (food, wholistic health, etc) so taking care of myself was pretty easy. I was unhappy for part of my marriage (thus, in a stressful day to day life) and have been a happy single for 2 years with little stress .. so stress has run the gamut and still not affected quantity of OB.

Perhaps it is a big coincidence but I started tanning at a tanning booth 3 months ago and since then have had 4 outbreaks! That's more than I have had in 2 years!! Three of them have been in the last 6 weeks, since I started dating and having exclusive sexual contact with one wonderfully supportive man. Since the OBs started before I met him, I don't see that the new relationship is a stressor in my life or a cause. Obviously though, my level of sexual activity has increased greatly.

I know that ultraviolet rays depress the immune system and am thinking that the tanning booth is giving such a high dose that it is triggering the herpes. I had been going weekly (but stopped 10 days ago once I realized the possible connection)

I have also heard that vigorous sexual contact can be a trigger. It never was a problem during my marriage, why would it be now? It all takes me back to the tanning thing as being the one thing that has changed.

He and I both refuse to give "energy" to the herpes, focusing on it, dreading it, fearing it. However, it is coming about so often that I am wondering why.

Any thoughts??

Eliki

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