Famciclovir cold sore
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OK I'm confused now.
If they found out it was bacterial, then they had to have cultured it. And there's not really anything confusing about something looking like herpes - lots of things do.
If they found bacteria, you need to find out what kind and how you should be treating that.
I started getting sores on my tongue after i get a cold sore, which I have always had, about 5 months ago and these sores on my tongue have been constant since than. The start as a small dot that develops a white ring and the white ring spreads outward and the sore gets bigger with a shallow red sore inside it. They start and take about 10-15 days to heal and typically occur in same areas, back of tongue and tip of tongue. My tongue also feels hot and burns.
It is also important to wash hands after eating or touching the lesion. Ice applied directly to the cold sore site prior to the eruption of a blister may reduce the potential swelling. Any drying over-the-counter cold sore preparation that contains camphor and/or phenol may provide relief if applied in the early stages. When used in the scab stage, these ointments can help prevent painful cracking and bleeding.
People who have never had a symptom shed virus. When you get a cold sore that is a time you will be pretty certain you are shedding and a time to avoid sexual contact.
3. If no sore is present and I kiss and give my lover oral sex everyday what are the likely hood of passing it within an year? Can we realistically live together without passing it on?
We don't have any numbers about transmission rates from mouth to genital only.
When I started prophylactic treatment with acyclovir, I saw a reduced occurrence for a few months, then they came back to about 4-5 outbreaks/year. I recently switched prophylactic medication from acyclovir to famciclovir, and had a 18-month period free from outbreak. Come yesterday, I had another terrible outbreak (worse than usual)... will these become more commonplace now? Is this a sign of HSV-resistance to the drug? Are there any other courses of action I can consider?
I have had oral sex with my partner who has Genital Herpes 2 and I thought we did everything 'right' in preventing it being passed on to me. He hasn't had it for some time. I now have burning when going to the toilet, incredibly itchy skin and a few 'sore'. My doctor has taken a swab and is getting tested and gave my the 3 day internal canisten cream and i'm on tablets...Famciclovir 250mg twice a day. I've tried Vagisal....no go. I've tried Eylocaine Jelly...
So I have fairly regular cold sore outbreaks on my lower lip (3-4x per year). I am on a daily antiviral treatment and my outbreaks went dormant for a year and a half and recently was five months between them. I have learned that sunburn / UV is a trigger for my outbreaks.
My question is, if I prevent UV exposure to my lips where the outbreaks occur is that enough to theoretically thwart the onset of outbreaks or is the research behind HSV and sun exposure any sort of sunburn anywhere?
Several studies in humans and mice provide evidence that treatment with the antiviral drug Famciclovir soon after the first infection with herpes can significantly lower the chance of future symptomatic outbreaks of herpes. Use of Famciclovir in this manner has been shown to reduce the amount of latent herpes virus in the neural ganglia.[5][6][7] A review of human subjects treated for five days with Famciclovir 250 mg three times daily during their first herpes episode found that only 4.
Dear Experts,
I am sorry in advance if someone had the same situation before, but I do really appreciate your advices regarding my test Herpes results. I live in AUS and I am not sure if there is a good/reliable Herpes test here.
History:
Last exposure was on 10 Jan 2015
31 Jan 15 - feeling the pain around anus/buttock
3 Feb 15 - Doctor A told me it was anal fissure and gave me cream to apply.
Hello, I had a sore on my genital area( lookn nuffn like pics I see online) and thought I might of had contracted herpes so I went to doc n got antibiotics , the sore went down tremendously... Doc took a swab and no word yet.. And dat makes me nervous bc it's been days , although I tested negative for all std's including blood wrk for herpes..!!. But it's been days now n the butt pain n muscle groin pain is excruciating.
My parner has breast cancer and is going thru chemo. She keeps developing what starts out as a blister, then quickly deteriorates to a elongated, red, raw sore. We have tryed A&D ointment, neosporin, Aquasomething, powdr, etc. My pharmacist suggested putting peroxide on the site, letting it air dry and then applying Gold Bond powder. Do you have any suggestions. They appear in the crack of her buttock - they have shown anywheres from the rectum area on up to the latest, near the vagina.
Thank you so much for your opinion. I sent a picture to a couple of online doctors and both came backsuggesing it was likely in in-grown hair. I also ordered a home test kit for HSV1 and HSV2 which I will use at 12 weeks. I seem to recall having a cold sore > 30 years ago but have never had one since. Seems incredible to have stayed dormant for so long. Having, said that when I got the tingle it seemed familiar. Guess my lips have a good memory!
I have been experiencing severe vaginal itching with the past 3 weeks. It started off with a few sores just above the pubic hair area. Then vulva/vagina became all red and inflamed. I thought it was yeast infection and self medicated. However it got worse and then I noticed ulcers/boils all over vulva. Pain was very intense. They started to ooze and bleed. They are now drying out but I still have tingling feeling. I visited doctor who suggested possible genital herpes and put me on famciclovir.
3 days later she came to work with a cold sore. I asked her how she could have got that as she said she didn't get them. She said it was the first time that she's had them. I know that I wasn't the one to give her that as I have been tested in the past and it was negative for both types. What are the chances (statistically) that I could get this on my lips or on my penis if at the time she had no visible sores.
Just now I noticed small white bump developing in the outside edge of my upper lip and it appears to be a cold sore coming on; It feels sore. I have been using Blistex and swabbing alcohol and peroxide on the Fordyce spots, about 10 that show (they do not hurt, but can become irritated if I rub my tongue over them forcefully or scrape my teeth over them)
I have had many of these things including cold sores, but not for some time so the timing has me dwelling on it.
A week after contact I started experiencing numbness and an odd sensation on my fingertip. I immediately started famciclovir the next day (8 days post potential exposure) My finger still feels numb/ slightly cold/ very mildly swollen with red spots and hyperaensitivity at the tip (havent been touching anything with that finger) which is 1.5 weeks. I got a fever a few days ago which was 1 week after I felt potential symptoms and 2 weeks post potential exposure.
At first I was getting cold sores about every 4 to 6 weeks. I then started taking 500 mg of Valtrex daily for suppression therapy. This seemed to reduce the frequency of my outbreaks to about once every 2 to 3 months. To save money, my insurance switched me to acyclovir (400 mg twice a day) with similar results as the Valtrex. Then starting about 3 months ago, I began to have outbreaks every two weeks even with the suppression therapy.
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