beth88
11-04-2008, 11:05 PM
Sadly at age 38 I have had my first outbreak of oral hsv...undiagonsed with 5 days of white patches in throat, mouth sores, chills, fever and first cold sore...followed by herpetic whitlow on my fingers. ;My doctors ran all tests with no results..i researched on line and diagonsed myself and went back with info to my doc...they have now concluded what I found out for myself...sadly after 14 days of sickness, pain and suffering my 5 year old daughter has come down with chills 105 temp, white patches and everything i just went thru....it was pulling teeth for them to run a blood test on her..now they have said it will take 3 days for results. She will probable soon form cold sores etc. and stay miserable till put on acyclovir. Does anyone know if for a first out break is ;acyclovir enough??? I was first put on antibiotic when they were unsure of what i had and switched to acyclovir...also 2nd question is acyclovir bad on a child or why wont they give it to her ahead of time given the situation...time is of great importance when you are dealing with this. right?
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dolysods
11-05-2008, 08:54 PM
did they also do a strep test?
beth88
11-06-2008, 10:52 PM
that is the first thing they did...since when you have the first outbreak all the symptoms run pretty much the same...headache, malaise, aches, fever, sore throat, white patcches...both immediate results and cultures results have been negative...
dolysods
11-06-2008, 11:08 PM
i would have the strep test repeated. I've heard if you do it too soon, it will show up negative, but a few days later test positive
beth88
11-06-2008, 11:38 PM
why would you think it was strep and not hsv...if i came down with my first outbreak only 10 days earlier....sharing drinks, chapstick, and kisses goodnight. just curious if you could add anything i'm not thinking
beth88
11-06-2008, 11:40 PM
they do culture the test and let it cure over a 24 hour and a 48 hour period for that reason...all results have been negative even the 48 hour.