How do I know when my first OB is coming to an end?

Hi lucy, I'm just over my first outbreak and was diagnosed with herpes officially yesterday.

My symptoms began around the 8th and only properly cleared up last Saturday. I know exactly what you're going through. It's absolutely horrendous! I applied Vaseline all over so the sores don't hit off if eachother so much. I drank loads of water to dilute my urine which helped. If the urine hits off the sores you can apply Vaseline all over them to act as a barrier.

I know what you mean with the salt baths. I cried the first few times but kept making myself have them because I could see it was helping physically. I had them once in the morning and once at night. I also found that taking 500mg aspirin really eased the pain for me.

I had your symptoms for a few days before it cleared up. I still have some redness from my skin being so irritated and slight itching but that's it now.

Hope you're coping well

Lucy, everyone asks the same question as you and what I've learned teyijf to answer this question and going through my very horrendous and unique outbreak, that resulted in severe neuropathy, there is just no one size fits all scenario w herpes. I have one person I met on here, who I've been her daily pen paland support for the last month almost and she has more symptoms that were like mine than others on here, but she also has a couple I never had. She's also been sicker for a longer period, but had less sores and healed faster than mine. I like to use the analogy that, pur immune systems are as unique as our thumb print, so it is impossible yo predict how someone will heal. Her sores healed in the first week, but her getting more sick w other painful symptoms came after the sores had healed. My first week didn't hurt.. It was my entire second week that was horrendous. I couldn't even sit up for two weeks, because my tailbone, buttock and back of thighs were on fire. I felt like a burn victim. Clothing hurt my skin and I had to be put on nerve pain meds. I also had shooting pain in my rectum, vagina, to location of sores and down to my feet. The baths were not painful for me like you all described, in fact it was the only saving grace for me. I lived in the tub and I absolutely do see a difference when I have obs now bathing and how fast they heal, vs not doing it. Are you using regular salt or Epsom salt? Hope it's Epsom salt.

I feel like on average, it takes 3 weeks for the worst of it to subside and another week or more to feel some normalcy. For me, I haven't felt the same since getting this last July. All my friends who have this break out once a decade or once a yr and don't have the symptoms I have. You just don't know.

Keep your head up darlin, there is an end to this and when you're feeling better, you'll feel like time flew. Hang in there, we're here for support!

you might be the type just to have them all the time i have obs all the time almost everyday just depends on the persons body