Herpes outbreaks are super normal and can be expected until you manage to get your herpes under control. Which is more than possible. The best time to start herpes treatment is at the first sign of symptoms. At the very first sign of an outbreak – this can be muscle soreness (for me it is usually in one leg), minor cramping similar to PMS or ovulation, and/or minor flu like symptoms – you need to beef up the anti-viral medications. And for the purpose of this post, I am not talking about the pharma meds (Famvir/Acycolvir/Valtrex).
My preferred regimen is Vitamin C, Zinc, Reishi Mushroom and Oil of Oregano.
Use 5 – 10 drops of Oil of Oregano in water or high quality juice (it would not hurt to add a few drops of echinacea with goldenseal), and take 1000mg Vitamin C, 10 – 20 mg of zinc, and 100mg red reishi mushroom 3X a day. I cannot describe how gross this will taste (the oil of oregano and goldenseal combination itself could kill a small horse) but it will give your immune system a huge boost. It will help if you can think of it as, ‘burning away the herpes’. Inside and out.
It is quite possible that starting this treatment for herpes regimen early enough will prevent the herpes outbreak completely. You should continue for up to 3 days even if symptoms disappear.
If and when you start to feel a tingling and burning sensation in a specific area in your vagina/vulva/anal area, you can start with topical herpes treatment. My success is currently with alternating Vitamin E oil and tea tree oil (a few drops in olive oil) every few hours. Make sure the vitamin E is natural source not synthetic (natural vitamin E is prefaced with d-alpha while synthetic is prefaced with dl-alpha), and buy the best tea tree oil you can afford. Organic is best.
Should the virus actually appear in the form of small herpes bumps or blisters, discontinue the tea tree oil and apply only the Vitamin E every few hours. This will speed up the healing in a massive way.
I know it’s hard but when you are in the early (first) stage of an outbreak, try not to freak out. Excessive worrying will kick start your fight or flight response (your body will think it’s in danger) and you will flood your body with stress hormones. Again, I know it’s hard. Try to relax. Take a bath, go for a walk (maybe not in that order) and get as much sleep as you can.
Don’t try to fight your herpes. Focusing on the strength and power of your body, your immunity and your herpes treatment, will yield far greater success in controlling outbreaks than negative feelings toward your herpes virus.
And don’t forget: You rock. And you’re not alone.
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Hi – stupid question – ok not for me – this is my 1st outbreak – do you use the vitamin E inside too?
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THANK YOU!! I feel like crying – I have been looking for info for women for 2 weeks now. No one addresses that women parts are generally not dry areas. We take probiotics to help keep things moving and flushing.
I am sorry this is your first outbreak in that it would seem you have been recently diagnosed with genital herpes. You seem to be handling it quite well since you are focusing on the physical symptoms. During the active phase or second phase – when the blister or rash is obvious and sometimes open or swollen, I most often leave it alone. If it is really itchy or painful I will put a few drops of tea tree oil in olive oil (Melissa oil is good too but it is harder to find) and put that directly on the sore. This will tingle in a good way in that it is cooling and a bit numbing so it takes the edge off. Also, the tea tree oil is antiseptic and antiviral (but it’s a bit late for that last one). This contradicts trying to keep the area dry but it’s good for a few hours or just before bed to help you sleep.
The blister will sort of lose it’s life and it’s intensity and a harder crust will form over the sore (just like when we were kids and got a bad scrape on our knee). This isn’t always obvious but you can usually tell that the sore is not as painful and it is getting smaller. This is when I use the Vitamin E because, I swear to God, it will clear up 50% faster than without it. Vitamin E is amazing. And yes, I use it wherever the sore is. If it’s in my vagina then I will apply it there. The whole dry thing doesn’t matter so much anymore because it’s good to use a moist healing agent on a drying sore.
Try not to spend much time thinking or worrying about the different stages. Fortunately (if you can look at it that way) you will get to know your outbreaks and treating them with what works for you will become second nature. Hopefully you won’t have many outbreaks. If you do, I would suggest Valtrex until you can get an idea where your head is at having been recently diagnosed.
Hang in there.
Hi Nancy
Thank you! I wish this would just be over. We thought that it had cleared up last week since I’d been taking Valtrex for about 7 days and things weren’t sore – but then my bf spent the night and ouch! We were wrong. ):
I’ve started the L-Lysine today and I’ll get the vit. E tomorrow.
Thanks again for sharing your experiences and I’ll keep reading all the great info you have here.