Itching after outbreak

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I've been diagnosed with HSV-2 by my doctor about a month ago, the sores went away and then the itching started, my doctor said it was pinworms and gave me medication, however this did not help. After about a week of itching I recently realized (yesterday) that I'm currently having another outbreak. Are outbreaks suppose to occur so regularly? It's only been 2 weeks and I'm already having another outbreak. Can anyone relate to this ? I'm not sure if I did something to trigger the outbreak.

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  • Posted

    I have the same thing my outbreaks comes and goes to they are not so bad as they used to be though because I decided to take valtrix for the outbreaks the medicine helps them a lot
    • Posted

      Do you take the medication daily ? Or only when you have an outbreak. I would really like to take meds if it prevents the outbreaks. I can't have outbreaks every two weeks. It's depressing, I haven't come to terms with it as yet, and my partner and I enjoy having sex so now as the outbreak came so close to the first one, I'm beginning to worry.

    • Posted

      I decided today I'm going to take the medicine regularly only because I don't want the horrible outbreaks to come back if I stop taking them.

    • Posted

      Okay, keep me posted, the first time the meds along sit baths helps. So let's hope these go away after a few days when I get the meds

  • Posted

    Itching is fairly common with herpes outbreaks, so I don't know that it was necessarily pinworms you had. Outbreak frequency varies from individual to individual and is usually worse in the first few months to a year, as your body adapts and the virus settles down.

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      I went to get the medication today but the healthcare in my country is really bad so I didn't get it, have to go back tomorrow. My lymph nodes on my groin have been swollen since my first outbreak. However this morning I got up and they were gone, not swollen and no pain, however how come they went down in the middle of an outbreak that makes no sense

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      Everybody is different. Some people may not even get swollen glands with the first outbreak (many do, however), and most don't experience swollen glands with recurrences.

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