Symptoms for Herpes

Even if someone is infected with genital herpes, but not having the symptoms for herpes, another person can still get infected.

Someone who is infected with herpes may not even know they have it, as the disease can lie dormant for years, but eventually something will set the virus off, for the outbreak to start. Although there is no cure for genital herpes, you can get treatment for symptoms that you will eventually get.

Once you start to experience symptoms of the disease, they generally appear between four to seven days, once you have been infected to the disease. The first time you are infected with the disease is known as the primary infection, which tends to be the worst infection. Further infections which occur later are called the recurrent infection, and these tend to be not as severe.

Symptoms of primary infection can include the following.

Vaginal discharge in women

Ulcers, blisters on the cervix in women

Very painful sores or blisters around your buttocks, anal passage, genitalia

Pain when you are passing urine

A very high temperature, fever and generally feeling unwell with bad aches and pains.

All these symptoms can be present for up to at least twenty days, but eventually will all disappear, including the sores, blisters which will heal completely.

Symptoms of recurrent infection

Once the primary infection has been treated it will lie dormant in your nerves, and eventually will trigger the recurrent infection, which will include,

An itching and tingling feeling around the genitals, down the leg sometimes, before the blisters come back. This is usually the first indication that the recurrent infection has started,

Very painful sores around the genitals, rectum and thighs and bottom

Painful blisters or sores in the cervix of women.

These symptoms are not as severe as the first infection because the body has learnt to fight the infection producing antibodies to fight it. Generally the recurrent infection can last up to ten days, and you won't have the severe temperature or feeling unwell.

After reading this and you think you have symptoms for herpes, then you need to act as soon as possible to get treatment. The disease passes from person to person, so you could be infecting someone else if you have herpes.