If you want to make sure that you are getting the
right treatment then you better have full awareness of primary genital herpes symptom. Even though not
all people have the same symptom but there are several primary symptoms that
usually appear. Those symptoms are tingle, itchy, muscle aches, fever, flu,
burn sensation, nausea and painful feeling when urinate. After the appearance
of primary symptom, some blister and ulcer is commonly following.
The blister and sore will filled up with cloudy
liquid. For the location, this type of genital herpes symptom usually located
differently based on the gender of patient. If you are men then the sores and
blister will be located on your anus, penis, groin, scrotum, thighs and
buttocks. While if you are women then the blister itself will be find on your
vagina, buttock, anus, labia, groin and even thighs. However, that is not the
only place where you can get the sores and blister.
If you have oral sex activity then you are even
possible to get genital herpes symptom in your mouth area, lips, tongue and
etc. This is a quite rare case but still possible to happen. For women, the
primary symptom still being accompanied with painful feeling when urinates,
inflammation of the cervix and abnormal vaginal discharge. The blister itself,
if located in vaginal area can last for about 3 weeks before get healed. Primary
symptom can be appearing again during recurrent outbreak period.
During the recurrent period, the symptom will be
less painful and have fewer days. Commonly, it will be last for about 5 up to
10 days. The length of recurrent episode is highly depending on the antiviral
treatment. Usually, the recurrent period will be initiated with itchy and
tingle feeling start from 12 up to 24 hours. If you aware, this is the best
time to start the treatment before the blister get appear. The point is maintaining
your immune level so that you can prevent the virus from becoming active again.
What you need to do to
keep your immune level system at its healthy point is avoiding stress, prevent
yourself from alcohol. Besides that, remind yourself to always keep your
consumption pattern in such a healthy diet. If possible, try to find the things
that trigger the virus activation so that you can prevent the recurrent
outbreak. The outbreak number is also depends on the herpes virus type. The
type of HSV 1 usually will have less severe symptom than the HSV 2.
