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Did birth control increase your HSV-1 (cold sores) or HSV-2 (genital herpes) outbreaks?

Birth control INCREASED my outbreaks.
Birth control had NO EFFECT on my outbreaks.

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Q: cold sores ?

asked by: starstarstar234 on March 10th, 2009

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I started taking birth control 6 months ago. Immediately, in the first month of use, I got my first cold sore in two years. Two months later, I felt a tingling as if a cold sore was coming on. I bought Viroxyn, a one-time cold sore treatment. I put on the Viroxyn as soon as I felt the tingling, and the cold sore never showed up.
Since then I have felt about four more cold sores coming on. Each time I feel the tingling, I immediately apply a dose or two of Viroxyn, which seems to keep the cold sores at bay. However, if I keep using the Viroxyn so frequently, will my body eventually become immune/desensitized to the medicine?

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saw19842002

replied on March 10th, 2009

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It has a possibility that your cold sores can become immune to the medication that you use to treat them over time. Have you talked to your doctor about why you have had frequent cold sores since using that birth control? And if there is something that can be done about that? Which birth control is it?

I have had frequent cold sores on my mouth since I was a child and actually since starting my birth control pills in November- I haven't had any!

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