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I seriously doubt that what you are experiencing are basically continuous outbreaks. Very often, people with genital herpes have symptoms that they believe are outbreaks, but when swab tested, are not. I would strongly recommend that you get what you think are outbreaks swab tested and if negative, do another and another. If none of them are herpes positive, then the symptoms are likely due to something else besides herpes. The reason I’m thinking this is because someone taking 1 gram of Valtrex twice daily almost always respond to treatment better than you are.
I will say that this is a common situation and the majority of the time when this was going on with my patients, the swabs were negative and we were able to identify another cause for the symptoms – fungal, bacterial, something else.
Let me know what you think
Terri