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All the anti viral drugs do is force the virus to go back into hiding in the base of your spine at your lower back where it 'lives'. It hides there waiting to get stronger and attempts to come out again.
The medicine actually is really good and effective at forcing it to hide -- which is how outbreaks quickly disappear or some are prevented when one takes medicine at the tingly phase and avoids having an outbreak-- because the tingly phase is when it is starting to come out of hiding and working its way toward your skin, then the medicine scares it back before reaching the surface. I hope this makes sense.
Now if you always take medicine to suppress it will hide until it is strong enough to beat the amount of medicine you showed it previously. I hope this now explains why your outbreaks are getting worse: because you are actually training it to prepare for an increases dose of medicine.
So what do you do? This may be an upsetting solution but your body actually is capable of fighting it off without the medicine albeit painfully and slowly. You are going to have to wait for your body to fight it off on its own so the virus no longer prepares itself for medicine because you are not taking it anymore.
Yes this does mean more frequent outbreaks and worse outbreaks for a time because the strength of the virus will expect the medicine, but it will fix your problem in the long term. Switch your diet and medicine to healthy foods and vitamins that increase your immune system.View Thread
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