I have never had an outbreak before but recently I had a swollen lip, it was a little numby, then it tingled for a few days and it was annoying.. I am nearly certain it is HSV I, I have not been with anyone that has this and I was tested several years ago and was clean.
BUT this came on 3 days after a Party I was at, a guy there had a cut on his lip that was scabbed over, I thought nothing of it, he used a wine glass and was "done with it", I grabbed the glass and washed it out with warm water... then poured wine into the glass and drank it.
From all the research I did, this is HSV I.. now I am paranoid and think everything is going to explode on my face. I am using L-Lysine, Acyclovir and Abreva to prevent an outbreak (heard they hurt like hell and are just nasty like that guy's-which I thought was the result of a bloody lip).
My questions are, I don't have an outbreak that is visible, no redness, and I am on day 6 of the occasional burning and tingling. I am using all the above and I still get some burning and tingling...I've been taking 800mg of Acyclovir 2x daily for the past 3 days, using the abreva 5 x a day and taking 1500 to 2000mg of L-lysine a day.. I don't feel much tingling and think it is just my paranoya (sp?). Can the combination cause the tingling? I am getting tingling in my ear as well and my jaw.. and secondly, am I contagious or shedding as they say online in the various forms? There seems to be some things about how if I have been taking the Acyclovir for 3 days (6 doses) and no outbreak then I am not contagious and the tingling is probably just my imagination at this point. I just don't want to pass this to my g/f at all.
Can someone please put me at rest with my concerns with information?
Thank-you for your help.. btw: in the mornings if I don't think about it I don't get any tingling anymore.. but when I think about it I start thinking it is tingling. I have never had any kind of an outbreak of anything like this anywhere on my body.
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