Re: I absolutely agree with you "mom"..

Nope. The only thing I ever treated myself with was the cream and the pills, long, long ago. When I got pregnant, the doc put me on some inhibitor-type prescription for the last month so that I wouldn't possibly have an out-break during delivery. Frankly, when I was young and rather sexually active, having herpes was a problem. Now that I'm older, I don't have outbreaks anymore, though it seems like the last one I had a few years ago was stress-related.

One thing about the cream - it dries out the area rather well and I think that's why it heals faster. I've actually used the cream when I've accidentally broken my skin from scratching (yeast infection) and it works great healing me faster.