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Hi all! I've recently posted a few times. I'm still new to this, diagnosed with gHSV1 almost a month ago. I have a question for those who have had "atypical" symptoms other than skin lesions/blisters. So my outbreak, which we've determined I contracted the virus an unknown amount of time ago as my IgG was positive, consisted of four blisters near my left anal area. I had that and then randomly started with vulvar burning on only the right side that first week.

It took 2 1/2 weeks from onset to proper diagnosis, at which point I was placed on valtrex. We did the high dose (1000mg BID for 10 days, as is typical for initial outbreak even though I was almost completely healed as far as the open areas go) and then 500 mg daily. On the high dose of valtrex I had prodromal symptoms I didn't have before - tingling, twinges, zings, etc. this almost all stopped when I decreased to 500mg per day. I had a slight one here or there but nothing compared to before. I have had residual discomforts to the right side of my vulva/clitoris still, like a line is drawn down the middle and the right side is effected. After reading posts about people who had weird symptoms after starting valtrex I thought maybe I should try to switch to acyclovir and see if that stops these weird symptoms.

My doctor when I called said she thinks they're related to my outbreak and not the valtrex, to double the dose for 5 days and then make an appt if the symptoms persist. That was Friday. I doubled the dose and I've had some random prodromes along with the continued random right sided vulvar discomfort that comes and goes. I've also started today with achiness and random pain from my hip region through my thighs on both sides.

Conincidentally I developed swollen lymph nodes in my neck Monday but that can be caused by so many things I've tried to just remind myself that herpes does not cause EVERYTHING. I had been outside Saturday and bitten by mosquitos multiples time so it could have been that.

I have an appt with the midwife I've been seeing tomorrow to ask about changing meds and these weird symptoms. I figure it can't hurt to see if these weird things are related to the med by trialing another. I guess my question is, have any of you experienced these random symptoms related to H? Thoughts on any of it?

Thanks!

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@Katidid thank you for your reply! I'm going tomorrow to the midwife so I will tell her I want to trial switching my medication, even if she doesn't think that could be causing it. I've told myself if she won't do it then I'll just ask my gyn specialist I see (for other reasons) to switch me when I see her on August 9th. My gyn specialist has treated nerve pain for me before, totally unrelated to H (although now I wonder..), so I also hope that if I have residual discomfort that she can help with that.

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