First OB - how long?

[pinky44]

I started having symptoms one week ago today. Started on valtrex on Friday (4 days ago). When will the pain go away? It has lessened a bit but the amount of pain - as I'm sure everyone knows - is still unbearable.

[Tennesseeguy85]

I'm currently still having my first OB. Its been six weeks and going strong. I have no pain or discomfort, just bumps that seem to go and come in places. Really sucks. I took acyclovir 3 x 5 days twice and went to a new doctor today who ran additional test so currently not taking anything. Goodluck and I hope the symptoms get easier

[australiangirl]

Pinky,

My first OB lasted about 1 week but my second one lasted over a month. I tried to wear loose clothing and eat healthy but it didn't seem to make much of a difference. I know it's painful and it's an awful experience, but try to remember it will get easier and it will go, it won't be there forever.

xx

[wireless]

ON and off for weeks now. I hate it. If I could make this go away by trading the last twenty years of my life, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I had about a week or so that wasn't iffy at all. It felt like I was myself again. I have no idea when this shit will stop. It feels like never.

[Tennesseeguy85]

I am so damn confused. Some of my lesions are scabing up. Others look the same. They are clustered together, clear and some red. The last time I was with my partner was 12 weeks 4 days before my negative test. Would antibodies show up in that length of time? My lesions look exactly like the lesions I see online with pics. I would feel more confident if I didn't have bumps on my penis with the negative result but the bumps are still there. Im just curious if the acyclovir I took for 10 days 2 weeks prior or the lysine tablets could cause a false negative.

[australiangirl]

ON and off for weeks now. I hate it. If I could make this go away by trading the last twenty years of my life, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I had about a week or so that wasn't iffy at all. It felt like I was myself again. I have no idea when this shit will stop. It feels like never.

Ah deadbolt i'm sorry to hear. I totally feel you on that one. My last visible OB cleared up 4 days ago and then 2 days ago i had the worst pain ever like a UTI and burning agony in my lower stomach and down there. I just cried in bed and my husband got me a hottie. In absolute desperation I youtubed some frequency healing for herpes and I took extra lysine, did everything i could think of. It was so bad. I haven't encountered this pain before ever. It feels like utter crap. I think the next time this comes on I am going to get the antivirals rather than deal with the horror of it.

Do you eat a specific diet or take supplements? I wish I could say they helped me but I was running 20km per day and lifting alot of weights and ultra healthy and still had out breaks so I just don't get it.

Sending you positive energy anyway. xxx

[australiangirl]

I am so damn confused. Some of my lesions are scabing up. Others look the same. They are clustered together, clear and some red. The last time I was with my partner was 12 weeks 4 days before my negative test. Would antibodies show up in that length of time? My lesions look exactly like the lesions I see online with pics. I would feel more confident if I didn't have bumps on my penis with the negative result but the bumps are still there. Im just curious if the acyclovir I took for 10 days 2 weeks prior or the lysine tablets could cause a false negative.

Gosh I'm sorry I don't know enough to answer this for you. Have you had a swab test? It does certainly sound like H.

[wireless]

Aw, australiangirl, you are a sweetheart. Thanks.

Yes, I try to follow a low arginine/high lysine diet and I take antivirals DAILY. Loads of lysine supplements as well. I have no idea what to do, though, as this does not and has not ever gone beyond the prodromal phase/feelings. Do I just let an outbreak happen, so it might be able to advance into what it wants to be and be done with and then pound the cyclovirs to me? Are the meds just slowing the progression and drawing out the process and not really helping? I dunno, I just know I hate this shit like in I would like to kill it with fire hate it.

Anyway, I guess I should be in chat to talk this much about that, but my whole point was to say thanks, and I really appreciate your sending such kind thoughts and taking the time to write. I'm sending positive energy back to you, too.

[australiangirl]

Aw thanks heaps deadbolt.

Apparently it is supposed to get less and less frequent the OBs? I can't say this has happened with me but I've only had it for about 6 months.

When I was in agony last night with the pain I tried this

I don't think I would ever have gone for this stuff in the past but now I am open to anything...

xxoo

[wireless]

I try and remind myself that there's people worse off than us but then I just feel jealous of them, whatever their problem is, lol. I try and remind myself that there's people with cancer, people with AIDS, people with motor neuron disease, people with Parkinson's, people with elephant man disease...and that somewhere, there's probably some sad person in humankind's history who had ALL those things simultaneously plus the happyrash. And only then do I think, ok, I won't feel quite so sorry for myself. But then again, that sadsack has proably been in the dirt a few thousand years and thus has been free of the herp for at least that long and I get jealous all over again.

*sigh* my apologies in advance to any posters with current diagnosis of a combo of cancer/AIDS/motor neuron/parkinsons and elephant man disease. I had no idea, and was only trying for some levity.

[australiangirl]

HAHA I get it totally. I even get jealous of my husband for being free of herpes but I would never ever wish them upon him and freak out if he touches me. It's like my life has been hijacked and I do feel like a sexual leper, even if i'm free from OB's I can't enjoy sex as I'm thinking about H and how I had a grose blister down there and maybe the friction of sex will bring on an OB etc. It's like my mind is wild.

I keep remember how when my friend got GH I was absolutely repulsed and I went the extra length to try and make her feel comfortable, like I wasn't worried about it. I feel so awful about it, but i'm still repulsed, only at myself this time. People keep saying how it's the same as chicken pox etc but the pain of it is so bad. I don't know how to handle the burning and stomach pain, not to mention joints aching and feeling like utter crap.

I try not to give it power and put things in perspective but maybe I am just not there yet....

[wireless]

Yeah, you know, it's funny: If this was reversed and my husband had it? I wouldn't care one bit if I cught it from him. I wouldn't feel gross or tainted or somehow different, I wouldn't care at all. I can honestly say that. Why? Because when it happens to someone else, my brain does this flip and decides it's just some stupid virus that can't hurt anyone unless they let it and I'd hardly let a little thing like that from him hurt me. It'd be no worse than catching a cold from him, you know?

Yet because I was the one to get it first, I feel awful and horrid constantly. And really, it's for nothing. I don't have any idea what is wrong with me to act like this, like I've got superweaponized low-grade ebola. I know this shit will stop One Day In the Near Future, but until then, it's all teary eyes and sadbrains for me. Jeez, I'm a freak.

[australiangirl]

Hahaah noo not a freak. It's just human. and I can totally relate. I even start thinking I have something else down there with the pain etc though I'm sure I don't. It;s like the brain runs away with ideas and things.

I would feel better if I actually knew where I got this from but because it looks like I had it silently with no OB for 10 years or I got it from my friend (using toilet after her?) I can't get my head around it and it tortures me.

Do you ever get lower stomach pressure or pain?

I think the longer it goes on the more we will become accustomed to it and soon it will just be another thing to deal with .. the human mind is quite adaptable.

.... having said that.. still having great problems adapting to this......

[wireless]

Nope, not that, no stomach pressure or pains, just that weird as F feeling of something microscopic crawling under my skin. It's never progressed beyond that except being wickedly itchy, I but I KNOW that the herps is what it is. I have a shit time adapting to it, too, but I guess as time goes by (and it can't go fast enough), this stuff has to calm down at some point, right? hate it. *the angriest icon*

[australiangirl]

Well, my friend who has it said the first year is the worst in terms of OB's. And i hope so otherwise I am in for a very hard time

It's good that you don't have blisters. That's something positive! as they are not fun to have, though i know the symptoms with out OB's are just as bad.

Hows this for angry.>>>>

[wireless]

This is a shit diagnosis, any way you look at it. But at least it HAS to go away and settle down at some point. (right? Jeesh). I hate it, this stuff has really interfered with how I live now and how I see myself. I guess it's the cultural thing, where it's so terrible if you have it anywhere but on your lip/face.(And of course, my lip cold sore area is never active except once every so many years. I'm fifty now and I've had two cold sores since I was 36. Thanks, DNA, thanks nature. Thanks for ironically messing with me like this.)

I have no real idea how anyone would go from it's ok there but it's not okay anywhere else. I do know that I've got that same weird Puritanical attitude, and I really want to change it. It won't help me, it will only hurt me.

Plus, it's just plain bullshit. The Scarlet H, indeed. Skin diseases aren't invested with morality. I'm done calling it herpes now, too, that very name sounds like something terrible right out of the Middle Ages, like some kind of devilish Latin name for The Undead Scabby Skin Serpent of Death or something. I'm sticking to happyrash, which is a much better sounding name that I learned in Ireland from a magazine caled Viz. I guess that's a more European way of seeing this crud and really, it suits me better. I liked being the old happy, joking me. I don't like this new crying, miserable me at all.

[Terrell]

Pinky,

My first OB lasted about 1 week but my second one lasted over a month. I tried to wear loose clothing and eat healthy but it didn't seem to make much of a difference. I know it's painful and it's an awful experience, but try to remember it will get easier and it will go, it won't be there forever.

xx

Faith and optimism is the key.

[Terrell]

HAHA I get it totally. I even get jealous of my husband for being free of herpes but I would never ever wish them upon him and freak out if he touches me. It's like my life has been hijacked and I do feel like a sexual leper, even if i'm free from OB's I can't enjoy sex as I'm thinking about H and how I had a grose blister down there and maybe the friction of sex will bring on an OB etc. It's like my mind is wild.

I keep remember how when my friend got GH I was absolutely repulsed and I went the extra length to try and make her feel comfortable, like I wasn't worried about it. I feel so awful about it, but i'm still repulsed, only at myself this time. People keep saying how it's the same as chicken pox etc but the pain of it is so bad. I don't know how to handle the burning and stomach pain, not to mention joints aching and feeling like utter crap.

I try not to give it power and put things in perspective but maybe I am just not there yet....

How is stomach pain related to it?

[australiangirl]

How is stomach pain related to it?

It's not quite stomach pain - more like a UTI kind of feeling. A pressure below the stomach. Apparently it's common with H so I read. It feels like pressure in lower abdomen and burning down there..

[australiangirl]

This is a shit diagnosis, any way you look at it. But at least it HAS to go away and settle down at some point. (right? Jeesh). I hate it, this stuff has really interfered with how I live now and how I see myself. I guess it's the cultural thing, where it's so terrible if you have it anywhere but on your lip/face.(And of course, my lip cold sore area is never active except once every so many years. I'm fifty now and I've had two cold sores since I was 36. Thanks, DNA, thanks nature. Thanks for ironically messing with me like this.)

I have no real idea how anyone would go from it's ok there but it's not okay anywhere else. I do know that I've got that same weird Puritanical attitude, and I really want to change it. It won't help me, it will only hurt me.

Plus, it's just plain bullshit. The Scarlet H, indeed. Skin diseases aren't invested with morality. I'm done calling it herpes now, too, that very name sounds like something terrible right out of the Middle Ages, like some kind of devilish Latin name for The Undead Scabby Skin Serpent of Death or something. I'm sticking to happyrash, which is a much better sounding name that I learned in Ireland from a magazine caled Viz. I guess that's a more European way of seeing this crud and really, it suits me better. I liked being the old happy, joking me. I don't like this new crying, miserable me at all.

Haha so true!!!!

Gosh you would THINK it would get better- and apparently it does . Every body reacts differently I guess. I'm trying to make sense of it myself.

Reading on the internet makes it sound so benign but there def is a stigma attached to it. Even before I had it I used to think it was the worst thing to have

I'm still repulsed by myself and don't know how to change that and just the other symptoms like the pressure and burning get me really down. I was just getting used to the sores and trying to make friends with them (as nuts as that sounds) and now more weird symptoms.

We have so many viruses in our body and parasites that we don't even see and know of. A little creature lives in our eyebrows and looks a bit like a worm but is so microscopically tiny we could never ever see it.

(I hope rather than further repulsing you this can help reassure)My sister who is a doctor seemed almost unphased I had herpes. It is not a big deal in the medical world but it is to us for some reason...

I really like happyrash hahaha sound somewhat nice!

You still have your humour ! It's more than I can say about myself... I walk around asking my husband if he's repulsed by me to the point where he's trying to escape me haha

Just ridiculous.

Xx

[Terrell]

It's not quite stomach pain - more like a UTI kind of feeling. A pressure below the stomach. Apparently it's common with H so I read. It feels like pressure in lower abdomen and burning down there..

I experienced that too however after surgery it stopped. My bladder wasn't emptying complete possible have related.

[australiangirl]

Faith and optimism is the key.

Thank you Terrell, you're right. I will try and focus on the positive

[Terrell]

Thank you Terrell, you're right. I will try and focus on the positive

HAVE activates @ the skin therefore, killed it with oil of oregano which should burn then daily lemon balm and intake b12 for nerve pain. Finally if successful thanks God

[australiangirl]

Terrell if you don't mind me asking what was your surgery for?

Yeah it's much like a UTI feeling but different if that makes sense!

When I went O/S a few months ago I had it in Spain. I had to stop and find a toilet every 10 minutes and just pee a dribble it was so awful, combined with a sore.

Now I have a weird memory of many Beautiful Gaudi work combined with many Spanish toilets

Without sounding like a complete fruitcake it feels like a bad joke played on me.

I had so much anxiety already and was anxious staying with my poor friend who had GH. After a few days staying with her I got tingly down there and two weeks later it all began. Perhaps I need a better sense of humour to see the funny side of it....

[Terrell]

Terrell if you don't mind me asking what was your surgery for?

Yeah it's much like a UTI feeling but different if that makes sense!

When I went O/S a few months ago I had it in Spain. I had to stop and find a toilet every 10 minutes and just pee a dribble it was so awful, combined with a sore.

Now I have a weird memory of many Beautiful Gaudi work combined with many Spanish toilets

Without sounding like a complete fruitcake it feels like a bad joke played on me.

I had so much anxiety already and was anxious staying with my poor friend who had GH. After a few days staying with her I got tingly down there and two weeks later it all began. Perhaps I need a better sense of humour to see the funny side of it....

It was pain syndrome my doctor repeated nerves and tissue which allows my bladder to open fully I take a pill a day for 3 months the surgery was painful I bleed for days.