HSV

[benedwards1]

I have read where hsv 6 causes chronic fatigue syndrome and I have had similar CSV symptoms for the past 5 weeks.  Are there any way to find if I have hsv 6 and if it related to the current CSF symptoms.  Thanks

[gracefromHHP]

Adults usually already have hhv6. It's one of the last things a medical provider would assume was the cause of a forehead rash ( plus it causes more than just a forehead rash ). Have you followed up on this rash with your provider?

How did they test you for hsv1?

Keep in mind that it's just as much about bad luck as anything for when we contract herpes either orally or genitally. Usually it's because conditions in our bodies are just right for it to happen.  You easily could've been "brewing" something else viral at the time ( it is that time of year - look around you everyone you know is sick ) and it left you vulnerable or it triggered a recurrence of a previous herpes infection to present with an obvious cold sore.  If you recently acquired hsv1 orally then I'm sure it was because you were recently making out with someone - they easily could've been so nice that they included more than just hsv1 in their spit and you also got something else to boot.  

If you are looking that hard to see symptoms - it's not oral herpes.

grace

[skbroker123]

Sorry about the confusing question.  I was tested positive for herpes simplex 1 on the same day I noticed a cold sore on my lip.  Went through pretty severe flu symptoms (ie fever, loss of appetite, muscle ache and joint pain.  I thought it may have been other STD but came back negative for hiv, hep, mono, syphilis so I am assuming it was my primary out break.  I just have been feeling tired and weak and also noticed small red rashes on forehead and from research hsv 1 would not have caused the rashes so I was just speculating whether it was hsv6.  

Grace.

after the initial outbreak I am noticing small white  pimple like clusters inside my upper lip and corner of my mouth.  no sores and only notice if I push my lip out with my tongue.  Do you think this is another outbreak?

[gracefromHHP]

Be careful when throwing out abbreviations - sometimes they aren't the right ones.  CSF is cerebral spinal fluid ( I think you had a typo and really meant CFS anyways right? ). Churg Strauss vasculitis  is CSV which is quite rare and I doubt what you are talking about.  

Almost all of us get hhv 6 when we are kids - it's more commonly known as roseola.  Every couple of years they find a new virus to blame chronic fatique syndrome on ( EBV is still a fav ).  If you truly have chronic fatigue - you are flat on your butt and getting out of bed just to go to the bathroom is hard work.  If you've just been plain more tired than usual for the last 5 weeks - not likely to be chronic fatigue syndrome.

Have you been under the care of a doctor? Have you had a full work up?

grace

[waringblender]

Your post is a little confusing and illogical. There is some speculation about chronic fatigue syndrome being caused by something called the HHV-6 (human herpesvirus-6). That is not herpes simplex (HSV) but is apparently some kind of related "cousin" to HSV.

If you believe you have chronic fatigue syndrome, go see your family physician and let them figure out how to deal with treating it and/or testing for it. I'm not sure what you mean by "CSV."  I tend to put chronic fatigue into one of those broad umbrella categories of diagnosis by exclusion; meaning that they can't find anything else wrong with you, so they'll call it chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, or one of the few other chronic myofascial pain disorders that are floating around. I tend to think most of these are related to depression and the physical manifestations of clinical depression. But that's just my opinion.  Antidepressants are known to be successful treatments  for chronic pain states, however, so it's probably not too far off base.