Are you always tired?

[Kurdt01]

Has anyone else ever noticed a lot of fatigue with this? I just wondered. Especially during OB's or chronic symptoms, it can be such a mind fuck.

[WilsoInAus]

It is usually the other way around. Ending up stressed and tired is exactly what brings on outbreaks. Herpes does not make you tired, the virus wants you active, healthy and vibrant!

[Joperty]

I don't really know but I would imagine it's gotta be fairly normal - when we're ill we are tired while our immune systems are fighting bugs and viruses. It makes sense that when your body's trying to heal and repair damage you maybe tired? Also if herpes causes emotional stress too that'd help contribute. It's exhausting feeling shitty all the time!!

Unless that's just a myth!

[WilsoInAus]

Not at all. The immune system is a normal part of human existence and draws energy that is well handled by the body. There are hundreds of permanent viruses and bacteria that exist within the body that the immune system is addressing every moment of every day. There is nothing special about HSV amongst these hundreds!

[JBnATL]

Yes, when your immune system does kick in to help fight this virus it can make you tired.  

JB

[jaimiegiirl]

I have been feeling abnormally tired.

It's all still a little weird to me. 

[Free73]

yes, i'm a fit guy, have been training with weights and cycling for years, but I get regular bouts of unexplained lethargy and malaise. I tend to feel it in my eyes and I can feel viral type symptoms that never turn into full blown symptoms. This can last for 2-3 days at a time and no amount of sleep seems to make it better

[blistering love]

My first outbreak was horrible, i was tired, and cold.Your body is using up all its energy to fight back.Get a blood test to determine if you're not deficient in vitamins.Low iron can make you extremely tired, and not drinking enough water.

[Sanguine108]

Yeah, that's a chronic viral infection for ya.

[sputnik]

I, too, get ridiculously wiped out and can sleep for 12 hours a day only to take another nap during the day. I wonder in mental fog and wish to eat all the sugary food around me. Until the ob or finally reverts back to latency?? Mad I am good to go again. Both happen so suddenly. But this really knocks me out of my routine as the symptoms can last for up to a month. Yeah. Without any ob. But a whole lot of fatigue . Valtrex is of no use, lysene does nothing. Vit c is like candy, useless.

[SureWhyNot]

Dealing with this over 35yrs and can honestly say tiredness is a definite indicator my body is dealing with the virus. It is not just tired but feeling drained! Sometimes it comes with a bonus, annoyance at everything around me! Lethargy and a quick fuse are not my normal state of being so I use those unmistakable signs as triggers to go into action to fight back as I feel it is first indications of activation. Of course sometimes just napping all day feels good and does the trick if I take supplements before so I can envision them working for me while I rest. I make sure I eat only the proper foods for me to fight with meaning NO SUGAR to feed the virus and weaken my immune system. I take Epsom Salt baths with baking soda and antiviral essential oils to drain the toxins from me to ease the battle. I have recently added Castor Oil packs to draw out the toxins and find much relief with that too.

 Nasty virus but at least it comes with a warning to allow defensive action!!!!! 

[sputnik]

Why do some people never get OBs , some get them all the time and others are just wrecked with this enormous exhaustion. It's literally debilitating. I can't do anything while I am in this cloud. Wish there was a way to accelerate the prodrome and get the damn OB. I've seen it before, I wake up with ob and after a month of sleeping through the days I can run half a marathon. It's like a parachute that suddenly cuts away and allow a me to live my life once again, until, of course the next parachute attaches and drags me back down. Why fatigue for very few chosen ones , but not for 99% of others !? There must be an explanation.

[Kurdt01]

Someone that has researched herpes extensively shared with me a theory about why some people have more problems with herpes than others and it really makes sense me on many levels and seems to explain a lot.

 

It's not the herpes (i.e. a more virulent strain or anything like that) it's that for some people it becomes apart of you and your immune system stops recognizing herpes as a foreign invader to be fought against, your body sees the herpes and says "oh hey thats just me, let it by".

 

There is probably nothing wrong with your immune system either it's just the virus is so damn stealthy. How many of you are healthy as a horse otherwise and doctors are either mystified that you have such a hard time with herpes or that your crazy or that it's something else entirely??

Maybe were just fine, but herpes has tricked our immune systems to stop suppressing it. Which could explain why the shingles and/or chicken pox vaccine could help some,  but not all. Just depends on which protein your body is letting through and failing to recognize as an invader.