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When I was first diagnosed with genital herpes type-2 I got outbreaks (so it seemed) all the time. If I wasn’t having my period, I was having an outbreak. It seemed in the beginning that I got them every two to three weeks and sometimes more often than that.

Eventually I started to track my outbreaks on a calendar along with the days that I would take my Valtrex and how many I would take. For outbreaks I would take 500 mg twice daily. I also tried Acyclovir and Famvir and eventually decided that the Valtrex was kicking the outbreaks in the butt much quicker.

After tracking my outbreaks and checking to see which medicine was working the best for me, I decided that I would like to go on suppressive therapy because I was so sick and tired of having to deal with outbreaks all the time. So I did, I went on suppressive therapy for the next two years taking 500 mg once daily but always having enough Valtrex on hand to bump up my dose to 500 mg twice daily just in case I did get an outbreak while I was on suppressive therapy.

It was 1995 or 1996 when I contracted herpes and now it’s 2008. So you see, I’ve had genital herpes for a long time. I don’t really deal with outbreaks any more and I am no longer on suppressive therapy. In fact, the only time I put myself back on suppressive therapy was the last 6 weeks or pregnancy with my last two babies. I did that to do what I could to prevent outbreaks during labor and delivery. It seemed to do the trick because I was able to have vaginal deliveries with no complications.

You can read all about that on my Herpes Biography