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I am so frustrated! Since my first OB in April, I have had one a month. I have started taking Vitamin C and Lysene on a regular basis, but still no change. Everyone has said the first year is the worst, but is one outbreak a month normal?

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I am in the same boat... I have also started taking Lysine and a garlic supp as well..What is the dosage for preventative treatment with lysine? I bought pills that comes in 500 mg each and garlic thats 1000 mg each. TIA!!!

Amy

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I am so frustrated! Since my first OB in April, I have had one a month. I have started taking Vitamin C and Lysene on a regular basis, but still no change. Everyone has said the first year is the worst, but is one outbreak a month normal? Unfortunately Vitamin C and L-Lysine are not antivirals used to treat herpes. Have you thought about trying a proven herpes antiviral such as Valtrex, Famvir, or Acyclovir?

Angela :D

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I am in the same boat... I have also started taking Lysine and a garlic supp as well..What is the dosage for preventative treatment with lysine? I bought pills that comes in 500 mg each and garlic thats 1000 mg each. TIA!!! Amy None of those are known to treat herpes simplex virus. Why hasn't your doctor given you a proven herpes antiviral med such as Valtrex, Famvir, or Acyclovir?

Angela :?:

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I have Valtrex, but it's too expensive to take every day, so I supplement with Lysine and Vitamin C. I only take the Valtrex during outbreaks. My doctor originally gave me Acyclovir, but again, it was only to take during outbreaks, it wasn't for preventing them. I take 500mg a day of Lysine and 1g of Vitamin C, but I up my Lysine to 1g during outbreaks. That was the doseage recommended to me by my naturopath.

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I have Valtrex, but it's too expensive to take every day, so I supplement with Lysine and Vitamin C. I only take the Valtrex during outbreaks. My doctor originally gave me Acyclovir, but again, it was only to take during outbreaks, it wasn't for preventing them. I take 500mg a day of Lysine and 1g of Vitamin C, but I up my Lysine to 1g during outbreaks. That was the doseage recommended to me by my naturopath. Well ~ if your naturopath seems to think that Vitamin C and L-Lysine will help you deal with your herpes than what can I say? I'm not a naturopath.

I can tell you that those two things are not herpes antivirals and they do not and will not decrease or suppress your outbreaks.

Not really sure what else to tell you at this point..?

Take Care,

Angela :shock:

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Well ~ if your naturopath seems to think that Vitamin C and L-Lysine will help you deal with your herpes than what can I say? I'm not a naturopath.

I can tell you that those two things are not herpes antivirals and they do not and will not decrease or suppress your outbreaks.

Not really sure what else to tell you at this point..?

Take Care,

Angela :shock: do some research on google with the keywords "butylated hydroxytoluene" and "herpes". i have not had an outbreak since my primary ob 4 months ago. the stuff is only about $7 for a year's supply. i wrote much more about my own research in the "treatment zone" section.

best of luck.

me

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Yes, but you can't account for asymptomatic shedding.

Angela :D

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Yes, but you can't account for asymptomatic shedding.

Angela :D Asymptomatic shedding is only a factor for sexual partners; in which case, your partner should be informed that you have been infected with herpes virus before sexual contact ever occurs in the first place.

Having said that; there is alot of poor information being pumped out by pharmaceutical companies. Unfortunately, the majority of doctors tend to push the same information, in the absence of an applicable surgical or therapeutic procedure. The classic "head-in the-sand" routine when it comes to doctors who have no clue about a widespread disease that they are now confronted with regularly.

Take Valtrex, for example. A "quick fix", concocted by the pharmaceutical companies, for the purpose of giving your local doctor a method of getting you some "quick treatment" and sending you on your way. Valtrex is now a giant, with annual sales approaching $1Billion (the American market accounting for a large majority of those sales).

But, back to the subject of asymptomatic shedding...

It is not a matter of opinion that Valtrex, or Acyclovir (Valtrex may as well be called Acyclovir, since it turns into Acyclovir, once assymilated into the bloodstream), and Famvir are all specifically designed to stop VIRAL REPLICATION. In other words, they DO NOT DESTROY MATURE VIRAL PARTICLES. In fact, they are specifically designed NOT to destroy mature viral particles. After all, why would the pharmaceutical giants want to destroy those particles? If the particles were destroyed, they wouldn't have any reason to stop replication (sell more drugs).

So to answer your question (within the context of the previous paragraph) - NO, you cannot account for asymptomatic shedding, because the drugs only serve to REDUCE asymtomatic shedding, not stop it.

But, how about outside that context?

Given the fact that there are non-toxic substances available that can destroy mature viral particles, and the fact that your partner should be aware of your infection prior to sexual contact; there are, indeed, ways to account for 100% of asymptomatic shedding between sexual partners.

In a nutshell, uninfected partners would make themselves immune to ganglian infection by configuring thier bloodstream to destroy mature viral particles; just as the infected partner would configure thier bloodstream in the same manner, for the purpose of preventing transmission in the first place.

It's a long journey for a mature viral particle to travel from the ganglia of one human being to the ganglia of another; two separate bloodstreams being the only road from "Point A" to "Point B".