Genital Herpes Medications are Very Useful (That's Proven)

So you've been diagnosed with genital herpes? The good news is that with genital herpes medications you can make that virus practically go away.

I know that sounds crazy. You might be really suffering right now.

During your primary outbreak, all the symptoms of herpes are the worst: flu, fevers, many outbreaks, and maybe even some pain! And certainly lots of discomfort.

When I think back to my first two outbreaks, I thought I was going to die. And dealing with the whole "social stigma" of genital herpes made it worse. I thought I'd never date or have sex again.

Luckily, I was wrong. Using herpes medications brought my outbreaks under control. And then I learned that by using them, I could even have sex with a non herpes positive partner with low chance of transmission.

That's the wonders of modern medicine.

IMPORTANT: I am not a doctor. These guidelines are from personal experience, learning from Herpes social support groups, conversations with my herpes friends, and lots and lots of research on the Internet and in books.

So the big thing is this: if you think you have genital herpes, visit a doctor and request a herpes test. And let your doctor make the prescription for you! .

Just be sure to see a doctor knowledgeable on genital herpes. Many are not. So reading this website and others will help you go into the doctors a lot more knowledgeable.

Three Ways of Using Genital Herpes Medications

Here's the three ways of using genital herpes medications.

First Episode or Primary Outbreak

• heal your herpes sores faster
• less fever/flu symptoms
• reduce shedding
• reduce severity of future outbreaks (very important!)

Episodic Therapy

• shortens duration of the herpes outbreak
• reduces the severity of outbreak (really important the first two years of having genital herpes)
• keeps the virus from reproducing in the body

Suppressive Therapy

The results (research backed) of people who take genital herpes medications this way are uplifting and comforting:

• 20% had NO OUTBREAKS in a year
• most reduced outbreaks to only one or two a year
• severity of outbreaks were much less
• chances of passing the virus to a partner (assuming no sex during outbreaks and using a condom) reduced to less than 5%

What Kind of Medication Should You Use?

There's three main brands of genital herpes medications (they are actually all variants of Acyclovir):

Acyclovir

Famvir

Valtrex

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