Infectious Disease Specialist

Wow

Great info! Thanks for sharing!

I hear people talk about every day meds but my doctor has only given me an antibiotic, no meds or cream. Every day is painful and pure hell. After learning about daily meds I contacted my doctor and even though she is an ob/gyn she is transferring me to a planned parenthood clinic for treatment. Is this normal? What can I do to ease the pain while waiting for an appointment?

Curiosity: Did you have any kind of infection with your outbreaks? because antibiotics won't do anything for this. Herpes is a virus....antibiotics are for bacterial infection.

A gynecologist would normally know how to treat an STD, could send you for a blood test and certainly could give you a Valtrex dosage to help you with your pain!!

The parenthood clinic will be a good source of information and help for you but I hope for your sake that you can go there very shortly. Any family doctor or any doctor in a walk-in clinic could help you also.

That's great. Always good to have some answers and know what is "really" going on.

Overwhelmed: So was it worth the visit? She says your symptomes are not herpes symptomes but doens't say what it is...you think it's herpes. Kind of back to square one.

My doctor also had told me if I feel something down there, if it's not a sore with a blister then it's not herpes. Yeah right....And the chances of passing it on valtrex is 10%...hhmm....I have not come across that 10% in all my readings but I do agree it depends on each individual. If Valtrex prevents you from having outbreaks you're good to go, if you keep on having outbreaks on it then of course you are more contagious.

i think it was worth it simply because this is a specialist saying oh hsv doesnt cause itching. and says oh hsv is very very painful and if it doesnt hurt then its probably not hsv. we all know that isnt true. but because they dont have it in their 'literature' then they dont believe it. it was worth it because it now confirms what i already knew: they dont know crap about hsv and WE are the best ones to identify it and determine what is working and is not working.

hey jane...see if you can find me th link for the research showing the 2% risk without condom and 1 % with if you are on valtrex. tried to find it and couldnt. had planned to take it with me.

Of the 20 symptomatic acquisitions of HSV-2, 16 occurred among the 741 partners of placebo recipients (2.2 percent), as compared with 4 among the 743 partners of valacyclovir recipients (0.5 percent).

--->Found in this study. And note that they say some percentage of people did not always use condoms and did not always take their pill daily. That is the full study. Good luck reading that...lol

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa035144#t=articleResults

Page 20, table 7. So once again looks like it's 0.5% not 1%. Good for us!
http://us.gsk.com/products/assets/us_valtrex.pdf

10 percent chance of transmitting it? wouldnt surprise me actually. How many times did i have sex with her a million. and i got it way after we started. could be .000001 percent chance of getting it. I still got it :p its nice to know they know about as much as we do. thats um swell :p this is probably also why they dont regularly check for herpes. Everytime I look at people Im like hmm I bet they have herpes and dont even know it!