Herpes
What are your oral herpes symptoms?
For you all who has oral herpes/cold sore/fever blister 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?
Public Comments
- u don't have to be hospitalized unless its a really bad outbreak but most outbreaks can be taken care of with meds at home. for me i first got oral herpes which are cold sores. usually i would get dry skin around my mouth, then kind of a tingleling or itchy sensasion, then the cold sore would appear. my cold sores usually last for about 3-5 days if i'm using something like Abreva or Lipactin to help heal them. i didn't realise i had genital herpes (HSV2) until i had a painful and itchy outbreak of little blisters, they went away eventually in about 8 days and i thought i was fine. until i got a second outbreak of open sores (lesions) then i went to my family doctor toget tested and the results came back posative. the second time around i recognised the symptoms and they were just as painful as the first. i had the warm unpleasent tingeling sensation, burning when i pee, itching and pain at the same time so badly at that sometimes i couldn't sleep. i'm on valtrex so my outbreaks are not as severe now and i've only had two really bad outbreaks and hope to never expereince another one. luckily my outbreaks came when i had some time off so i didn't have to take time off from work but i think i would have for the first few days called in siick or something. u don't have to be hospitalized since it is not life threatening. by the way hsv1 and hsv2 are caused by the same herpes virus they just appear in different locations. just because u have oral herpes does not mean that u will automatically get genital herpes but u can if u have a cold sore because they can be transfered to your genitals.
