Valtrex side effect tingling

Every time I take Valtrex my leg and behind starts to tingle as if I am shedding or about to have an OUTBREAK, but an outbreak never happens just the tingling of my skin m. Is the tingling a side effect of the Vsltrex, could Valtrex be making me shed, or I'm I shedding? It only happens when I take my Valtrex. I have been taking it for 7 days now.

Thanks.

I had the same thing on Valtrex. Drove me nuts. Happily, acyclovir has been more effective reducing outbreaks and no zingers!

If it's making me tingle, does that mean I'm shedding and active?

I don't know. Certainly it means the nerves are awake, but I don't know if tingling always equals shedding. Ultimately, there is no way to know when shedding is occurring (outside of an active outbreak).

Thanks for the information! :-)

I had the same problem with valtrex and switched to acyclovir

@katidid it's weird! I will call my doctor tomorrow, because it's annoying. Thanks

Yeah, I was on it about 3 months and had constasnt prodrome like symptoms

Did you ask your doctor about those side effects? Were you contagious or anything during that time while you were on Valtrex?

I didn't talk to my doctor about it. I recognize I'm still occasionally contagious even with any medication, so I just figured...what's the point? Plus I've found most health care providers to be less educated about herpes than I am.

That is so true, my new doctor is so uneducated about herpes. I gave her my results and she told me "don't worry about it. Sometimes things like that just happen and come back positive."

I was shocked when she said that, so I started doing my own research.

Yeah. Mine said to just use a confirm when having an OB and seemed shocked I would bother telling my ex of 15 years.

My gynecologist of over 30 years as well as the new Dr's and aids all say it's so common and don't even bat an eye.....however, they all seem more than willing to answer or get an answers for any H related questions. They've even asked around and gotten back to me which is refreshing. Besides that, you have to figure in that large practice, several of them have it!!!

@katidid @hikinggirl how long did it take for your prodrome to decrease when you switched to acyclovir? I switched Thursday but I feel like now I have more prodromes last night into this morning than I did on maintenance dose of valtrex :( I was hoping this would be my solution

It took a couple of weeks as I went straight frtom valtrex to acyclovir with no break. In other words the valtrex was still in my system. I woukd give it at least 2 weeks

@Katidid thank you, I'll give it some time. I did the same thing - straight from valtrex to acyclovir. I guess I've been worried because it seems the feelings have increased. The midwife thinks the feelings are all related to the virus and my body adjusting to it. She said she had one patient who had issues with weird feelings for about a year and now that patient may have an issue maybe once a year. I know that peoples bodies go haywire with their primary outbreak - I would hope since the virus has been in my body for a period of time, even though its never shown until now, that my body would have a handle on it. But I guess thats not the case, its just frustrating

@ash2018 In my case, I was on Valtrex for about six months, then took no antivirals at all, then stated acyclovir aboout six months later. So I didn't switch from one to the other immediately. But once I stopped Valtrex, I'd say it was at least a week or a little longer for all of the zingers to settle down.

Hope it gets better soon!!!

@hikinggirl @katidid thank you both! I'm hoping and praying so

Also, have you started any kind of hormone treatment? Not sure of your age. That can do it too

@katidid I'm 26, I'm on birth control but I've been on that. I do however have a theory that a change in pills (and thus a change in hormones) is what triggered my outbreak. I had just finished the first pack of a new birth control when I had my outbreak. It's the only thing that changed in my life at the time this showed up. My IgG was positive (9.48) indicating it wasn't a new infection. That lab was drawn about 3 weeks after symptom onset