What is your genital herpes symptoms?
For you all who has genital herpes and got your true first outbreak (means you didnt have HSV-1 and HSV-2 antibodies beforehand). How painful/severe was the symptom, how long, and what were the recurrences like? How long before the recurrences gets less? Did you have to be hospitalized/off from work?
I’m dating a girl with herpes and would like to know if I got it how it feels like……
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I’m a girl and I have genital hsv-1
The first outbreak…
A couple of days after I was exposed to the virus, I started getting a bit sore down below. I though I had a yeast infection, but it got worse and I felt very uncomfortable and the glands in my groin got swollen. I had what looked like a sore patch at the entrance to my vagina, like a cut, but I never had a single blister. So I went to the doctor and she told me it looked like herpes and did a swab. They gave me valtrex to take. It never got any worse visually than that, I didn’t develop any blisters though I had a slight pink rash. I did have abdominal discomfort though, but not pain. I did feel very sore down below, but it wasn’t agony or anything. The worst thing was I felt like I had the flu - I had a high fever and felt ill. That worse bit lasted a couple of days, about 8 days after I was first exposed. In total my symptoms from the very first sign lasted about 11 days - but only 2 or 3 of those were bad, and mostly because I was trying to get my head round having herpes and I had a fever.
At first I got recurrent outbreaks once a month, but for the first six months I never had blisters, just ‘cuts’ like some people can get. They were so mild I often didn’t notice them until I was healing, and were’t painful or anything, at most a tiny bit sore - and very small, maybe the size of a small pea at most.
For the first few months the virus felt active - I would get prodrome, tingles etc, every few days. But I never get it now. About 4 months after I got it I got my first outbreak with blisters, and now it is always a small cluster of blisters, sometimes one, normally 3. The longest recurrence I’ve had lasted 4 days, often they last less than a day and the blsters never even appear. The worst recurrence I had was when I was very run don, about a year after I first got it, and I had the fever again and felt really ill, but the physical symptoms weren’t any worse. I still often down realise I’m having an outbreak until it is halfway through - at the worst it feels like a sore ingrown hair, and the sore bit lasts 24 hours max. I can honestly say I have never found it painful, just uncomfortable.
And obviously it can leave you feeling a bit low on the self esteem front when you’re having an outbreak. The psychological part os harder to deal with. Physically, like I said, I find having a yeast infeciton far worse than a herpes outbreak.
As to recurrences, that really is individual, and I know that for someone that has hsv-1 I have been unlucky. My sister also has it and went for six years after her first outbreak without getting one, but although I have gone for six months without one, since I then get them several months in a row I guess I average about 6 a year. I think now this is mainly because I get one when I’m fighting off a cold, I get an outbreak even if the cold doesn’t develop. Unfortunately, because I work with the public every day, I am constantly getting colds, or starting with them, so I’m aleways getting outbreaks. That is the only trigger for me now - no codl, no outbreak. I’ve had it 2 years and I do think I am getting less outbreaks now.
I don’t take any meds, or painkillers, I’ve never seen the big deal with it. The only time I’ve been off work with it was my first outbreak.
it means u have the herpes virus in your body. hsv1 will show up as cold sores and hsv2 will show up on your genitals but the two can be easily transfer ed from oral to genital and vise versa. i have both oral and genital herpes. my first outbreak of genital herpes was very painful i had white blisters all over down there and they were itchy as well. my second outbreak i recognized the symptoms better and it was not as bad. just a warm unpleasant tingling sensation then a lot of itching and pain when the sores broke out.
some say that their outbreaks are less internecine i have only had two major outbreaks so i couldn’t tell u that. i was never hospitalized and luckily i was off from work when the outbreaks started. though i think i would have called in sick for the first couple of days of an outbreak.
unfortunately u will never know what it feels like until u actually get herpes and i hope u never do because trust me this is something that u don’t want to experience.
i havent had any herpes before but im a nurse and could somewhat help you with it even just a bit.=) well with guys its not that hard to see if you have the symptoms compare to girls. mostly guys may see redness on their genitals at first. then later on you will see that a chancer sore like appearance may develop. then it will be painful. but before that chancer dev. go to a doctor and have a test for it. you really don’t need to stay in a hospital you may stay at your home so you could rest well and take all medication prescribe
I have hsv-2 and my first otubreak lasted a few weeks, an open lesion right next to a small fleshy looking pimple that never goes away, the lesion looks like a scrape, no bigger than the tip of a q-tip. It didnt hurt, it was a big uncomfortable from the prodromal sympstoms, since then I have gotten about 5 outbreaks, which lasted about 2 days each, I take no medication(have NEVER taken anything), only herbal supplements and have only had extreme pain once, which Im pretty sure i triggered by experimenting with a home made topical ointment. I can usually avoid getting outbreaks, but I trigger them on purpose, I’ve read many articles, research studies, etc, which have led me o believe that a cure lies within exposing the virus, not letting it live dormant and multiplying within you. Your immune system can onyl attack the virus when not dormant, meaning during outbreaks. By boosting my immune system, and taking antiviral herbs I expose the virus and slowly eliminate it, inhibiting replication by contantly attacking it. If you’d like to live with the vrius forever, take the medication and listen to all the fools in here, if not take my advice and do what I have done, your chances are better my way.
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