Herpes and Early Pregnency

Sexual health
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 I am trying to get pregnant. I have Herpes my outbreak occured , my doctor prescribed me Acyclovir and advised me incase of pregnency taking Acyclovir may result in defective child , hence asked me to abort the child if pregnant. 

This is killing me?

Please let me know wether taking acyclovir in early pregnancy may harm my child?

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I never heard such thing... I think maybe the doctor meant that if you have an outbreak during delivery that it can cause problems. But I never heard taking medication while pregnant could hurt the baby. Did you google it ?

3

Docter mentioned this that taking Acycclovir 800 mg may result in Defects in child. I am not pregnant yet but trying to get pregnant , taking Acyclovir 800 mg. 

May I have some advice on Getting pregnent with Herpes Please

4

I'm new to this, so I'm not a good person to give you answers but, I would ask your doctor again what you should do. Sounds like they weren't very informative

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Thank You

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I'm 8months pregnant and experienced my first breakout a few weeks ago.I went to my doctor and just by taking a look down there he said that it was herpes.I received my culture and blood results this week and everything was negative...

He wrote me a prescription for acyclovir 400mg at the beginning and explained to me that if I had a outbreak during labor I would have to get a Csection to prevent it from being passed on to my unborn child.This can be a of dangerous harm to the baby.

Although my results came back negative I am continuing to take the meds 3times a day to lessen the chance of future breakouts..especially because my due date is quickly approaching...

If I were you I would change doctors.The information that your Dr gave you is CRAZY and unheard of...Do some research though..I wish you the best on trying to conceive..

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I didn't think a culture could be wrong... So if it came out negative how can you have herpes? That doesn't make sense... I would get another opinion

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I totally understand what you are saying..based on what I read and the pictures that I saw I figured that it was Herpes..During pregnancy the immune system is very low so this probably played a major role of having the breakout..Whatever it was...I'm going to get re-tested after delivery to ensure that everything is clear.

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Good idea. Good luck to you