How to rid herpes outbreak quickly

Antiseptic gels are the best. It refreshs the genital area and y gonna feel so much more comfortable.. Don't use any tight underwear.. At least I can't even support any type of lingerie while having outbreaks its just horrible. Fill the bath with warm water and let the body be in contact with the water before u try to pee, it helps so much! Also, having the right nutrition helps.. Drink lots of water, do what relaxs you!

I would say keep bathing in salt baths.. plenty of salt!! Keep the area dry and wee in the bath or shower as often as you can to ease the pain. I know your pain girl!! Also if it's that painful and feels 'too dry' once you've done all that.. some Vaseline can help a little too.

When I had my first outbreak, I was basically bedridden for a week, i couldn't even walk without pain.

But no matter what you need to keep the area clean. I made sure i washed when i first woke up, and before i went to sleep.

1. extra strong pain killers - I buy over-the-counter ibprofen with codine tablets, work a treat.

2. sleeping pills to help you sleep through pain like a trooper (at night).

3. microwave heatpack - during the day i would lay a warm one over my entire area, and at first it was uncomfortable from the pressure, but the heat really does wonders. I DO NOT MEAN HOT THOUGH. dont burn your junk.

4. sleep naked. helps air get to the ulcers and blisters.

5. keep soaking in that bath, helps keep it clean cause the gross puss you cant wipe away just falls off usually.

6. vaseline is your best friend, once the area is clean, it helps keep it clean, and also protects the wounds from being touched, either by clothes or by your... flaps. also i found it made walking easier. OH also, helps to pee, cause its protecting to wounds from getting covered in pee. not 100% but a good 80% success rate.

7. dont ever listen to these bitches on here suggesting tea tree down there. dear god. trying it myself was the dumbest thing ive ever experiemented with, and didn't help the healing, and made the pain worse - its instead good for the coldsore wounds. painful. but works.

8. numbing cream. so, I was diagnosed in a sexual health clinic thing, and they refused to prescribe anything to help the pain saying that numbing creams are dangerous in large quantities - Pharmacy wouldnt sell me anything without a prescription. I went to emergency department in the hospital who gave me Lignocaine 2% gel and basically said go nuts. oh my god, this gel literally was my salvation and i used it sparingly for the rest of my outbreak until i ran out (mainly before i went to pee, or rare times of if i needed to leave my house) - I now have over the counter "Numit 5% cream" which is "Lidocaine (Lignocaine) 2.5% w/w" - I'm no science major so I'm hoping this works the same when i need it to. ALSO, apply with clean disposable rubbler gloves.

9. DO NOT FORGET YOUR MEDICATION - stops the outbreak in its tracks, doesn't heal it, but stops more forming. 

Personally, i wouldnt recommend using sanitary towels for the discharge, cause that added friction is just unneccsary to healing the woulds - I instead just went commando, wearing loose fitting clothes (which for me was a bodycon dress - cause it was comfy and couldnt flash people cause it doesnt move in the wind), and carried spare underwear (when i had to go out in underwear).

Also wouldn't recommend using antiseptic creams - i tried them, they make the pain SO SO SO SO much worse. they're probably useful in helping heal the wounds, but oh my god, the pain is intense.

In terms of peeing, I had a system of many steps, that helped.

okay, so the numbing gel works 100% for peeing, but i was using it sparingly, so i didn't use it all that much for peeing (or if i did, tiny tiny amounts, then put vaseline everywhere).

my steps were:

1. cover area in vaseline, and i literally mean everywhere.

2. heat up my heatpack ready, to soothe the area after.

3. i used 2 pieces of neatly folded kitchen towel - one dampened completely in warm water, the other in freezing cold.

4. so i read some girl had success peeing at an angle, so i found my angle, which is a standing kinda of squat, leaning enough forward that the pee would fall either straight into the toilet, or would run down flaps that are not covered in wounds.

5. when i could bare touching the area, i would also try to hold open the flaps cause that reduces the pain of the pee touching anything.

6. straight after peeing, i experienced pain, but far less pain than trying to pee like a regular person, so i would put the warm paper towel over the area to soothe, and wipe (but dont literally wipe), then the freezing cold one for the same reason - Although the order of cold and warm one changed each time. The cold one helped the best straight after peeing.

7. heatpack straight on!!!!!!!! literally. helped get rid of the pain or make it more bareable.

I dont know if you already know this, or if this is/isnt your first outbreak, but i really wish i came across someone who wrote far more than neccessary to help me deal with this. which by the way, i didn't, and i read many many replies to other threads.

I hope this helps you in anyway.