Prior to 1981, there was no medically-approved treatment for genital herpes. As patients were told that there was no herpes treatment available, the feelings of hopelessness and loss of control must have been prevalent. To have been advised that the only way to prevent herpes transmission was by abstinence during an outbreak would have been extremely difficult to comprehend.
Available by prescription only, in 1982 acyclovir (still prescribed today) became the first treatment for herpes.In further years, both famciclovir and valacyclovir were subsequently developed and brought to market. The three medications are also known by their brand names, Zovirax, Famvir, and Valtrex respectively.
What many people do not understand is how the prescription anti-virals operate in the body. All three of the medications operate in much the same manner.
To survive and reproduce, viruses need certain nutrients and these prescription medications present themselves to the HSV2 virus as these exact nutrients but in reality they are fake.As the HSV2 virus utilized the anti-viral (masquerading as a required nutrient) to replicate itself, it is unable to and reproduction of the virus is dramatically reduced. I am a firm believer that if you can visualize this process actually happening in your body, the effectiveness of the medication could potentially be greater. Should you be uncomfortable taking a pharmaceutical anti-viral or be unable to afford the medication you can use visualization as an effective and no cost option. Knowing what you do now about viral reproduction, you can take a few minutes each day and visualize the genital herpes virus in your body NOT receiving the nutrients it requires to replicate and dying a painful and slow death (ok, that last part is optional). You visualize any herpes outbreak healing and getting smaller with colors such as green and blue. Visualization is a very powerful and extremely under utilized method to treat herpes.
A few more genital herpes treatment facts:
Acyclovir was proven to have poor absorption by the body (only 15% was available for use to disguise itself as essential nutrients to the herpes virus), and thus valacyclovir was brought to market which has a much more effective rate of absorption.Due to this fact, Zovirax needs to be taken more often than Valtrex. Famvir works in a similar method with a slightly different chemical structure.
The anti-viral medications discussed above can be costly (it might be worth your while to search around for a reputable online pharmacy in Canada, the UK, or Australia), and can also be very hard on your liver. Without medical supervision and blood work to test for high level liver enzymes, excessively high dosage or long term usage should be seriously discouraged.
There are several other remedies for herpes (all natural) that are also very effective.