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I recently had my first primary herpes simplex 1 outbreak about 4 weeks ago. Cold sores on my lips and chin and also has severe flu symptoms, fever, weakness, drowsiness, and chill in the first few days. All those symptoms are gone now except for tiredness and joint and muscle aches. It will be 4 weeks in on wedneday and wanted to see if these symptoms are typical of primary herpes outbreak and do they usualy last this long? I did have a hiv antibody at 6 weeks which was negative and a PCR test for hiv at 6 weeks which was also negative. Thank you
I recently had my first primary herpes simplex 1 outbreak about 4 weeks ago. Cold sores on my lips and chin and also has severe flu symptoms, fever, weakness, drowsiness, and chill in the first few days. All those symptoms are gone now except for tiredness and joint and muscle aches. It will be 4 weeks in on wedneday and wanted to see if these symptoms are typical of primary herpes outbreak and do they usualy last this long? I did have a hiv antibody at 6 weeks which was negative and a PCR test for hiv at 6 weeks which was also negative. Thank you
Yes, your symptoms are pretty typical of the primary outbreak. Any further outbreaks should not be as bad, especially with relation to the flu symptoms. 4 weeks is a little on the long side but still pretty normal. Typical is 2-3 weeks.
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