I’ve had herpes for 5 years now and ever since I got diagnosed with it I’ve get recurring herpes a lot. It was monthly and I’ve been on and off aciclovir for years. I was off them for a while till 7 weeks ago when I started to get out breaks every week for 4 weeks! I went back on them and still getting an out break not many but still the odd one weekly! I’m stressing as this can’t be normal and I have hiv or something? 

Hope you can help 

You are having outbreaks weekly?  I'm a little confused about the frequency of your recurrences, based on your post. 

You could certainly be tested for HIV or any other immune disorder but I doubt that.  Some people really do have more outbreaks than others.  OR you could be confusing something else with outbreaks. Are you getting groups of blistering sores?  What are you defining as an outbreak?

The appropriate dose of daily acyclovir is 400 mg twice a day, 12 hours apart.  Is that what you've been taking?

Terri

Honestly, aside from obvious immunosuppressive things like chemotherapy or HIV infection, we don't know why some people have more outbreaks than others.  I have had patients who do better on Famvir than acyclovir or valacyclovir, you could try making the switch and see how it does for you.

Terri

the simple fix here is to obtain a quick HIV test, but I seriously doubt that that is what is going on.

Terri