Question:
Well guys, I'm back. I've been MIA for a while because of school, feeling relatively OK about my diagnosis and more than any other reason, because I hadn't had any other OB's after my initial diagnosis on July the 30th. I have continuously prayed for dormancy but it looks like God had something else in mind.

With my first OB, I had the prodrome symptoms (before the obvious visible ones) that only included pain when urinating and the night before the visible symtoms, I had major tingling. No flu, no sickness, just pain when using the restroom and the tingling the night before. Actually, with the restroom pain, I attributed that to a UTI because that isn't uncommon for me so I don't even know if that pain was because of the OB.

Now, my dilemma is this. I realized this morning when using the restroom that something wasn't right. It wasn't major pain or burning but just enough to think "uh oh". Then, just about an hour ago, I felt something odd. Not the tingling that I had the first time around but just a hint to something being wrong. I grab the mirror and flip my self upside down and of course, there's the business. *sigh*. OK, so back to my dilemma. NO PRODROME SYMPTOMS! And no, I haven't been "ignoring" my body and any signs. I have been 100% fine before today. A little pain when urinating this morning and OB by evening. I wish I had some sort of warning like tingling a few days in advance b/c now my fear is that when I get back to my "love", if we do decide to have unprotected sex (although he knows the risk, I still don't want to transmit it. :( ) I won't see any signs in advance to warn us both what's to come.

What am I to do? Fortunately, I have really come to terms with this (very quickly I might add since I was only diagnosed on the 30th of July) and I didn't have a mental and emotional breakdown. I simply popped my two acyclovir pills and hopped online to vent to you guys.

I don't know what I'm looking for in this post but I just felt the need to talk/type to someone...

pendulum

Answer:
I'm sorry to hear you're going through this. it sucks.

what you might look for is did you have a headache yesterday or any other time this week? I always get what feels like a stress headache.

is it a week before your period? do you keep track of this?

it might be a good time to start a daily diary of food and experiences as it might help you to begin to know what precipitates the ob and what shuts them down. document sleep, activity, stress etc.

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wow. you're lucky. i had my second OB after only a week since my first OB!

and i thought the virus is still transferrable when you're not having an OB?

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Strikes me funny when you talk about the mirror and flipping upside and down. Who other than us get so adept at peering at our upside down bits? I must say too, it's sometimes not the easiest place to view. I just wanted to say that sometimes I get an itch, sometimes not. Some obs I get a tingle, sometimes not. Once in awhile I get a pain down what I figure is the nerve it's snaking it's way down through. It changes each time. For 25 years now... wow what an anniversary to celebrate eh? As far as I know to date I haven't transmitted it in those prodomal days or hours or maybe even minutes to anyone. However, I had more "false" signals over the first years which were probably my vivid imagination and fear that it was about to pop out!

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Thank you all for your input. I was beginning to wonder where my support was! Thanks and surprisingly, I think the OB is almost over and it only started Thursday...

Muy bien mi immune system!