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I'm starting to wonder if these symptoms are even related to hsv?

Angie040417

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I thought I was experiencing prodrome so I started my valacyclovir. I just finished my 3 day prescription yesterday. It didnt help whereas the medication helped almost immediately with my initial outbreak. 

Initial outbreak: about a month ago, lasted about 10 days- fever and flu like symptoms, woke up with sores on my labia and right next to vagina kind of on my inner thigh I suppose but close enough to be covered with underwear if that makes sense... acyclovir immediately showed improvement and stopped it from spreading or getting worse.

Second outbreak: started feeling the midnight restlessness and slight itch with no sores yet so I started valacyclovir. Seemed to help and then as soon as I finished the prescription it came. So I started another round of medicine! 😑 This time the medicine is not helping at all and I'm wondering if it's even related to hsv. Here are my symptoms this time around: 

Rash on my leg, multiple mosquito like bumps on both butt cheeks, mosquito like bumps on my hip and lower back, even one or 2 on my chest that are pretty painful and a few on my thigh. Theyve been there for about a week and just keep spreading to different places and getting worse. I'm starting to wonder if I have poison ivy or something because it feels different than my initial outbreak and medication is not working. After my initial outbreak I started alternating using oil of oregano and tea tree oil and I even wonder if maybe that's attracting mosquitos to these locations? I dont know, urg. 

I know I've posted so much lately but this is so new to me and I feel like I dont know much about it and Google really doesn't help much I've learned. 

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