The first two weeks was just general zapping, for parasites and stuff like that. Two days into the general zapping, I had a really bad outbreak. I mean it was really bad. So I panicked and stop zapping. A friend of mine told me that I w should've stopped, so I started back zapping and again, I was having some tingling. Well a couple week of non-stop zapping the outbreak had gone away and by this time my SmartKey to zap the herpe virus had arrived. I started using those as well as general zapping and I haven't had an outbreak. Last week, I did have some tingling in my gential area as if I was going to have another outbreak. So instead of using the wrist straps, I used the electrode pads they provided me with and applied those on my gential area. Not where the sores would occur, but up in my pubic region. The next morning, the tingling went away and I never had the outbreak. That was the first time, I have ever stopped an outbreak in its track. What I have been experiencing (I think) is viral shedding. I have never had viral shedding until I started zapping, but I'll take that over the sores and blisters anyday.