don't forget-- boosting your immune system is the best way to keep outbreaks from occurring. You can't do much about invisible shedding, but if you're talking about sex when you don't have an outbreak (or even when you do) lysine, vitamin C, Colloidal Silver , and ozone have helped a lot of people. Bht and coconut oil is good internally and externally, but you can't forget the other internal stuff as well.