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Herpes transmission with condoms
I was just looking for another response from someone to my inquiry I cant seem to get too many answers and Im loosing it a bit over here. I had protected sex with a girl about two weeks ago and we used a condom and at the time i was taking suppresive therapy, Valtrex 500mg about every three days or so. what are the oddds that I gave her this, I was pretty careful in not touching her with any part that wasn't covered by the condom. please someone help me!!!!!!!! we only had sex for about 5 minutes but I know that there is still a risk can anyone give me like "out of a hundred odds to ease my mind???/??//?/?? please
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Suppressive therapy means every single day, not every 3 days. Either you take it daily, or don't bother. It will have no effect if you take it every 3 days.
Since its clearly bothering you that you didn't tell her, from now on, tell.
Aj
Since its clearly bothering you that you didn't tell her, from now on, tell.
Aj
Below is an answer Grace - the moderator for this forum had posted to a male a while back with a similar concern:
"If the male is hsv2+ and the female isn't - if you do nothing (meaning no anti-virals) but AVOID sex whenever the male has obvious genital lesions - the female has a risk of about 8-10% each year of contracting hsv2. If the male is on daily suppressive therapy the risk is cut in half which makes it about 4-5% each year. If you throw in condoms along with all that it's a 2-3% risk each year of contracting hsv2 from the male. This info only applies to valtrex, not to acyclovir or famvir ( valtrex is not yet available in most countries as a generic - only in india and it can't be legally sold outside of india ). They have not studied this ( and published it ) in the other 2 herpes antivirals to compare them."
I don't know though if this fully applies to you because it wasn't clear if you were having an outbreak at the same time as you had sex . Also the quote indicates DAILY suppresive therapy and you indicated every three days or so..
Hopefully, Grace will post to add.
"If the male is hsv2+ and the female isn't - if you do nothing (meaning no anti-virals) but AVOID sex whenever the male has obvious genital lesions - the female has a risk of about 8-10% each year of contracting hsv2. If the male is on daily suppressive therapy the risk is cut in half which makes it about 4-5% each year. If you throw in condoms along with all that it's a 2-3% risk each year of contracting hsv2 from the male. This info only applies to valtrex, not to acyclovir or famvir ( valtrex is not yet available in most countries as a generic - only in india and it can't be legally sold outside of india ). They have not studied this ( and published it ) in the other 2 herpes antivirals to compare them."
I don't know though if this fully applies to you because it wasn't clear if you were having an outbreak at the same time as you had sex . Also the quote indicates DAILY suppresive therapy and you indicated every three days or so..
Hopefully, Grace will post to add.
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