Thanks, I try to be helpful as best I know how, not being a doctor myself.

I understand what you are saying about people here who report having herpes and subsequently get a negative test result. There are several explanations for that, none of which involve the virus exiting the body.

1. False negatives are hardly unknown.
2. If a person tested positive via a culture and at some later date had a blood test that indicated negative, they might be one of the small, but non-zero, percentage of the population that does not develop detectable antibodies of the type that the common serum tests look for. For those people I would suggest that a Western Blot for herpes might be more appropriate as it looks for a larger range of antibody types.
3. Somewhat related might be the situations where a person had a positive culture and then got a blood test too soon, before the antibodies developed.
4. I think we all recognize that some folks may have an agenda relating to selling products. In other words, they may not be entirely candid with us here in these anonymous forums. Some promoters of alternative herpes treatments have been caught red-handed posting patently fake "testimonials". See
http://imulux.googlepages.com/


If the virus, at some time, leaves the body, then how do you explain people who had Herpes zoster (chicken pox) in childhood and in old age have recurrences as shingles? It would appear, too, that, in your case, you've not yet been successful in ridding yourself of HSV1 as you still report recurrences.

As I often point out, cases of herpes generally tend to improve with time, even in absence of treatment. I think that this can easily give the impression that some treatment is working.

In regard to the ad for drugplace.com found at
http://nocureforherpes.com,
that is only a drugstore, not one of the large pharmaceutical companies. I've questioned it, too, though and have discovered that, as it says on the sister site at
http://herpeshomepage.com
, "Any revenue that we might have derived from this advertising is returned to you, the customer, as a discount. It is a free benefit of your participation here." So there is no financial relationship and the ads are provided there so that folks can get a discount if they order meds from that online store. I've investigated drugplace.com a bit further and they seem to have the lowest prices online because they do require you to have a valid prescription so they're not charging you for an "online consultation" with their doctor. I'd encourage you to do your own comparisons.

Anyway, in the end, I hope you find the relief that you are looking for and if I can be of any further assistance, please let me know. Tweet