I am just wondering how long it took for symptoms to come after the first time you had been infected...It shows 2-12 days on some web sites..but I would rather hear it from the people who have experienced it first hand...also..did anybody get bad headaches? Thanks..

In some people it lays dormant all their lives. Some don't get ob's for decades. So many people have it without knowing it, and sometimes (I've read a few cases here) the h will show up ten years into a marriage, and the symptomless partner will think the other has cheated. A while ago I read a post by a guy who had been celibate for 8-10 years, had never had any type of h, and suddenly he had a genital primary ob.

So if statistics are based not only on the average but on what people know (and report), then they aren't very accurate for the nonaverage person or, in general, when the people polled aren't aware of all the facts.

I often get headaches a day or two before ob's, but I get headaches when I'm overtired (and being overtired brings on ob's.) I get those tension-in-the-neck kind of headaches.

Hope some of this helps.

It took 3-5 days for my symptoms to show.

i started getting cranky about 3 days after i was infected and got sores on the 4th day

About 7 days after. Started with a massive headache that wouldn't go away. OB, and then just general icky feeling for about 2-3 days. The first 3-4 OB had the headache the day prior. Now, no more headaches. I also used to get headaches from the Valtrex and I took it with headache relief. Now, I can take Valtrex by itself.