Valtrex vs abreva
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What is the usual dosage of daily Valtrex? I am currently applying abreva and it stops the sensations but after a few hours, I can feel slight tingling again. can I just keep applying the abreva? Is it typical for the first occurrence to linger this long. Everyone keeps telling me this shouldn' be the case, including my doctor! Frustrated.
I recently suspected a herpes infection coming on, even though I am not diagnosed (waiting for blood tests to come back). I felt tingling on my lips and also had redness down below. My doctor prescribed me valtrex just in case and I started taking it because I was worried and she said it isn't harmful even if my tests turn out to be negative. Anyhow, I am taking 500mg twice a day for the possible gentile herpes, but can it also work for the possible oral herpes?
Thank you for all the information you provide to us. I've had cold sores for many years, never researched HSV1 prior to now and treated those cold sores with abreva. In July 2008 i was feeling discomfort in the anal area, i went to my gyn and she said it was herpes, took samples of the sores and a week later she called me to tell me that yes i have genital herpes.
I immediately took Valtrex. On day 7 of my course of Valtrex, the sore was still there, and still, clearly active and I began to feel tingling on the side of my mouth, around my mouth, inside it. I have not felt this tingling sensation before but I hear it indicates that more cold sores are going to erupt. My doctor gave me another course of Valtrex. So now I am on day 8 of Valtrex and applying Abreeva to my mouth and I worry that I am going to break out again, but on the mouth.
I also put abreva on my nipple just in case. I just finished my last dose of valtrex because I was getting the beginning of a cold sore on my lip. Is there a chance it will appear on my nipple although I already have the virus, there were no open sores/cuts/wounds, and I washed my nipple as soon as it happened?
I already have herpetic whitlow so, I know how easily transmittable this disease is :( Please, someone ease my mind. I'm really worried.
The last time I got a cold sore (about February) I used Abreva for the first time and after it healed that spot was tender and hurt pretty bad. Now I have another cold sore and it has scab over but there seems to be pus oozing from it in the morning for the past two days. This has never happened before and I am wondering if it is more common or if I have an infection?
Doctor put me on Valtrex twice a day for 10 days. Medicine worked. I was also using Abreva. After about 6 weeks from the first episode, I got the second and for the past few weeks they have been non-stop. One would heal, within a few days, another one. I have on my lower lip now.I am still taking Valtrex (1Gram) twice a day. In addition, I am taking a lot of Lysine tablets (8000+)
I am not sexually active and havent been for sometime. I tested negative for HSV2. I dont where I got it from.
Can I self inoculate? I am worried about transferring especially it to my eyes or genitals since I don't have symptoms down there yet.
I have been having hot sensations in the same spots on my arm, shoulder, ankle, buttock for a while. Is this a symptom of herpes?
I also have a cluster of pimples (not blisters) that popped up on my shoulder sometime today ... I have been getting pimples in the same area but assumed it was acne. Is this a symptom.
Would the valtrex trigger an outbreak?
It is problably HSV 1 on your genitals, face and eye then possibly.
HSV 2 you never get on your face and eye. HSV 1 seems to be possible to get lots of places.
You should check up the eye thing. Have heard it could give serious complications if it spreads.
Ask your doctor about a rx called valtrex. You can take it daily to prevent cold sores and also just when they break out as well. Safe to use while pregnancy, per my doc. It's safer to be cold sore free than to pass the virus to your baby.
I am the type of person to freak out when I think I may have a cold sore so i constantly was messing with it. I took double doses of my Valtrex and used Abreva. It never got bigger than a smaller dot on my lip and was gone within 4 days. Is it possible to have an outbreak such as this without a pustule formation?
Doctor,
In the beginning of January, I had my first cold sore on my upper lip. I tried Abreva and it eventually went away after a week or so. About 7 weeks ago, I got a second cold sore at a different location. Since that date, and for every week following, I'd have a new sore appear as the old one was healing/gone....every 4-5 days almost like clockwork with no breaks in between. They rarely overlap in time frame (I think once?).
Later in the day I got a bump which I put some abreva on, which then turned into two tiny blisters, which have crusted over today. I have been putting abreva on religiously every few hours.
Is it possible that the aches could be caused by this non-primary outbreak? I don’t have any other symptoms of a cold or anything and I don’t have sores anywhere else, but I know usually the aches are only associated with primary outbreaks.
I had an outbreak for a cold sore on my mouth about a week ago, and since then ive been applying abreva and another lip medication to stop the cold sore. this was one of my worst cold sores ever, but it eventually started to go away, just leaving scabs that are slowly healing (because the blisters got big, i accidently kept ripping them in my sleep). From my understanding, is it true that once the cold sore begins to heal, that the virus has left your body?
My daughter started to develop "pimple-like" sores above her upper lip over six weeks ago. We tried Abreva (for approx. 10 days) and it didn't help. We went to doctor and they prescribed Valtrex, which she took for 5 days. In addition, she was prescribed a anti-biotic ointment. No luck. We went back to the doctor and she is now on an oral and topical antibiotic. Doctor can't tell if it's cold sores, impetigo, staph, etc. Nothing seems to be working.
I also get white, rough patches on my scrotum and I almost always get conjunctivitis. I have Ig H 6.34 for HSV-1 according to my blood work. I have been given 500mg/valtrex a day to take.
Question: Does this sound like herpes even though I don't outward get cold sores? Why do I always get conjunctivitis? Is the conjunctivitis viral or bacterial? I often feel like the valtrex does nothing, and the eye drops they give for conjunctivitis do nothing.
s I was getting outbreaks twice in a month or every month so I was prescribed 1gm of valtrex daily dosage. which would help for the most part and brought my outbreaks down to none or once a year again. but recently I have been getting outbreaks once a month it started out as fever blisters every month now this month I have a cold sore. I am at my wit's end and did everything to prevent an outbreak. I took two valtrex, three lysine and applied abreva.
I've been taking lysine & vitamin c pills every day. I am also avoiding arginine foods, the sun, stress... I basically lock myself in my house for the past 2 months.
I've tried manuka honey (did nothing), abreva works sometimes, and I've been using lemon balm salve to moisturize my lips (works well). Carmex chapstick spread my cold sores so I stopped using Carmex and switched to lemon balm.
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