I seem to be getting a lot of herpes recurrences but without sores.
I am tired constantly, dizzy, fever, severe headaches sore throat. It lasts about a week and I usually only get 1-2 weeks of good health before it happens again.
Could it be something else?
Does anyone else have this?
I can't live life like this and my doctor seems to dismiss it.
If I was you I would go to another Doctor and insist on them looking into this for you, e.g tests etc. Sometimes you need to push them you shouldn't have to suffer.
I just posted something about this too. I am having the same symptoms but no sores. I went to the doc yesterday because I have a bump down there but she didn't seem too concerned about my symptoms and dismissed them as stress (I work full time, am a mother full time and am in school full time) I have headaches bad too.
Have you ever been tested for and diagnosed with herpes? That's the easy way to work out if it's due to herpes or not! Seems unlikely, especially not genital herpes. Oral herpes, possibly, but weekly is too frequent, so maybe not that either. Could be due to many things, as your symptoms are generic. What made you think herpes?
Sorry I should have said, i have been diagnosed with genital herpes but I only had sores on my first outbreak
My doctor said the exact same thing that it's the stress! But I really cannot believe all these symptoms and the severity of the headaches could be stress caused. I'm already on suppressive treatment so it doesn't seem like there's anything I can do
How were you diagnosed if I can ask. Visually a doctor told me last week that what I had looked like herpes. I had a flu too, (I had been caught in the cold rain a few times that week) I took the doctors word for it looking like herpes 1 from a cold sore on my genitals and took the antivirals, it healed quickly. Results for both swab and blood tests came back negative for herpes 1 and 2 today. I'm so confused.....
Negative IgG can just mean that it's a new infection. A negative swab test could be truly negative or a false negative. Was it by viral culture? If so, did they swab you when you had new lesions that had yet to heal? That should be relatively reliable in that case. If older lesions, false negatives are more likely by viral culture. If pcr swab tested, your negative results are accurate (4 x more sensitive and accurate).
hi Moochick if this is a very recent infection the results are negative