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Treatments For Genital Herpes
GENITAL HERPES? INFORMATION! PLEASE?
I would like any information on genital herpes, how much is the treatment? how often
does it come back? does it always come back? how likely is it to stay with you for more than 3-5 years? ANY INFORMATION WOULD HELP, SPECIALY HOW MUCH IS THE TREATMENT
The treatment can be quite expensive. My 90-day dose of daily meds are about $300 to $400 - before insurance.
But realize that most people with genital herpes don't take medication for it. It's really not necessary. It doesn't cure herpes; it only makes the symptoms go away a bit faster, and reduce the frequency of outbreaks. Herpes isn't fatal. It doesn't turn into cancer or other diseases. All it does is sometimes cause sores.
And in most people, herpes doesn't even cause sores. Most people who have it never have a full-blown outbreak, and don't even know that they have it.
Herpes has no cure, so the likelihood that it will still be with you after 3 to 5 years is 100%. But the symptoms tend to lessen over time - the outbreaks become less severe and less frequent.
And the frequency of outbreaks vary a LOT from person to person. Some people never get even one outbreak. Other people get 10 outbreaks each year. It just depends.
If you have prescription drug coverage through your insurance, they can probably tell you how much the drug typically costs, and how much your insurance will pay. It's likely that drug store websites could also tell you the cost of the medication - Famvir, Zovirax or Valtrex.
EDIT - I just checked the Walmart website, and they do indeed have 200mg Acyclovir for $4 for 30 tablets. The trouble is that the dosage for Acyclovir (Zovirax) when you are having an outbreak is 800mg, five times per day. And for daily therapy, its 200mg, five times daily. So their definition of a "30 day supply" is quite misleading. For a 10-day outbreak, you'd need 20 pills every day, or 200 pills in total - about $25 bucks worth. For daily therapy, your cost would be about 75 cents per day.
Alternative Treatment For Genital Herpes - Getting Totally Out of Herpes' Way
The main concern regarding genital herpes until now is its cure. No one has ever come near to it. Night and day an arduous search for herpes antidote is going steadily but to no avail. This is due to the clever maneuver of the virus itself and that is by hiding itself on the nerve cells under the skin, keeping itself undisturbed for a lifetime. Once the virus is contracted, it can never be restrained.
Virus Attributes
All kinds of viral infections have its mode of diffusion or spread. There were types of viruses that are air-borne, meaning they can be contracted through the air, just inhaling the contaminated air is enough reason to be infected. Like other viruses, genital herpes virus too has its mode of transfer. It is known for this virus to transfer through open or unprotected skin to skin contact as in sexual act. If one partner during sexual intercourse is infected, it has a very strong possibility that the uninfected party may be infected too, particularly during outbreaks where the virus is known to be in its very active state.
During outbreaks, a blister or sore on genital areas or its adjacent surroundings including the anus will develop and would result to a very bothersome consequence. Some may have painful sores but some say have an itchy one. Either way, it still carries a negative outcome. The sore however will heal itself out in one to two weeks time but in patients having a compromised immune system (undergoing chemotherapy, etc.) the healing will be less fast and sometimes complications will become unavoidable.
Symptoms of an outbreak may include a prodrome, a distinct itchy and sometimes burning feeling that can be felt exactly where the sore will appear in a few days to come, usually 2-3 days. Other symptoms for women include an unpleasant vaginal discharge. Usually the blister will start as a single sore but will eventually develop into a cluster depending on the outbreak intensity. Despite the name of the infection, it is also possible that the virus will spread to other body parts manifested by the same lesions that can be found on the genital area.
Staying out of Trouble's Way
Many preventive measures have been devised to control the spread of genital herpes infection. These measures take account of the following:
- Condom use. This is by far the most commonly used and commonly suggested mode of prevention.
- Daily antiviral doses. According to research, daily doses of antiviral drugs can help prevent unlikely outbreaks.
- No sex during outbreaks. During outbreaks, herpes virus is in its most active state and sexual contact during this period is strictly prohibited.
- Abstinence. This is the most effective way of staying uninfected but this is also the most unlikely to happen.
Regardless of warnings and stressful efforts to stop the spread of the infection there were still people not heeding the cal. It is as if the efforts of many men and women to make our world a genital herpes-free world have fallen into deaf ears somehow. This is manifested by an increasing number of infected persons per year.
If we would like not to be infected, our only means is to stay out of the trouble's way.
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