Hi everyone!
I can't believe I missed my 500 days, being outbreak free! I really need to carry a dairy around with me! Well, at least it goes to show that I rarely think about my coldsores anymore :) Today I've been outbreak free for 501 days, those spacey feelings/dizzy spells have completely gone, and I'm now know it had nothing to do with taking BHT, as changes to my diet and supplements have helped immensely!
Hi everyone!
Just a quick update to let you know, you can get an extra 5% off your purchase of BHT from House of Nutrition on top of the 25% discount! All you have to do is enter HOUSE in the coupon area.
Thanks Leo from bhtforcoldsores-selfexperiment.blogspot.com the other BHT blog for letting me know! :)
It seems almost unbelievable! Just 25 more days, until I've been outbreak free for 500 days! Just in time for when my god daughter is due! I'm so glad that I don't have to be as paranoid around kids, in fear of passing cold sores on to them! Although I'd obviously still be very precautious, it is still nice to know I can worry about it a little less!
I still think a lot of people don't realize that they can actually pass on this virus whilst they are not experiencing an outbreak, it's usually referred to as shedding when the virus is passed on without infecting the surrounding skin of the host. This can even happen if the person carrying the virus is completely asymptomatic! For this reason I believe the amount of people actually infected with the virus is much higher than 80%, and is really much more of an epidemic than previously thought, especially with HSV being tied to Alzheimer's...
I've recently come across two promising treatments for HSV, and am currently researching them more. It is the use of Hammerhead Ribozymes and another treatment called DL5-29. Hopefully the trials for these two treatments get enough funding and coverage. Let me know if you've have any interesting information on these two treatments :)
Hi guys! Hope everyone is doing well! Doing much better, went to see the doc about these spacey, dizzy feelings, turns out my blood pressure is a bit low, and I need to change my diet a bit. Just increasing my salt intake has done wonders! Been back on BHT for the past week, and thankfully didn't have any outbreaks while I was off it! I did kinda cheat though, felt a bump on my upper lip (not sure if it was a cold sore) so applied some BHT dissolved in olive oil and applied it topically. The next morning, what ever it was, seemed to have disappeared :)
Thanks for all the responses, sorry that I have to moderate the comments. I'm getting tons spam and 3 day cold sore cures (sigh)... To everyone that's posting them, they just going to be deleted. We've all tried these so called "cures", this is site is intended to offer people REAL help!
Anyways, it's home time this part of the world. Looking forward to a good home cooked meal :) Will be updating my blog more often, Scouts honour!
Warm Regards
Lucky Phoswa
Hi guys, just a quick update. Still not taking my BHT, and these spacey feelings are still kinda there. I'm not sure what is causing them, hopefully something completely unrelated and harmless :D Anyways, just wanted to place an inspirational message from Sara up here for you guys to read, thanks Sara!:
I just found your blog today, while doing a routine search on BHT to see if there is any new research. I have taken a 350mg capsule of BHT every single morning since 06/2007, shortly after I was given a positive diagnosis for herpes. I've never experienced any side effect of the BHT, except for the very positive side effect of seeming to stop outbreaks. :)
My ex exposed me to genital herpes back then and then dumped me (nice, huh?). I woke up one morning with a most definitely uncomfortable little owie spot 'down there' and made a doctor appt immediately. I tearfully explained to the doc about my exposure and he examined me and did a culture. The result right there in the office was positive. He sent me home with a prescription for Valtrex, which I took for a few days and decided to abandon it. The fact was that the painful spot was gone within that same day, and I prefer to be drug-free so I thought I'd give my body a chance to go through this without medication. Maybe 2 months later, I had a much worse "outbreak", meaning that I was hurting for a couple of days. I was miserable, although it was nothing like what online pictures show. It was something I felt, not saw. Only in one place did I think I could see something, just a faint whitish spot and it hurt like crazy! Thats when I went looking online for a natural solution and found BHT.
Like I said, I've taken just 350mg every day for a year and half and I have never had any further problems. Also, my boyfriend who I have been with for a year has not contracted the virus.(He threw himself on his sword, so to speak, and has unprotected sex with me. We are in this together for the long haul and he thought he might as well get it out of the way, and I do take birth control pills.) Anyway, I started wondering if perhaps I was misdiagnosed because my experience with herpes has not fit the standard according to everything that I read.
On December 1st at my annual exam, I had a full STI workup including a herpes test via a blood sample. The results came back last week, negative for both HSV1 and HSV2. This was awesome but confusing, so I called the doctor from '07 and had my records checked as far as what kind of test was done before. He said he did a culture in the office that day, and it is usually quite reliable. He got a positive result for HSV1 from my culture (I found that odd, considering my problem was below-the-belt and I hadn't engaged in mouth-to-genital anything). He said it is not unheard of for a body to purge the virus and have no outbreaks, but the antibodies should be present in my blood reflecting the initial exposure. My blood does not have detectable levels of that antibody, so it looks like I was never exposed at all.
So what was wrong with me back then?? Do I have herpes or not? The doctor recommends that I return in a couple of months and be tested again for good measure. I desperately want to be negative for this virus, and I'm also scared to stop the BHT in case it is magically the cause of this latest result. If anyone reading here has any insight, I'd love to hear it!
Hi guys, might have some bad news regarding my BHT experiment, the past couple of weeks I've started feeling rather spacey and being rather forgetful. Which is quite unsettling, I'm not entirely sure if it is the BHT, but I'm not doing anything else differently. So, I've stopped taking my BHT to see what happens. I'm putting this up here to be completely open with my experiment, please let me know if any of you guys have had the same symptoms.
Regards
Lucky
Wow, I can't believe how time has flown past! It almost seems like yesterday since I started this blog! At that time, I was at one of my lowest points, and having outbreak after outbreak wasn't helping. However, exactly 365 days later, I'm glad to announce I have been completely outbreak free for an entire year!
I still can't believe I've reached that one year milestone. When I first started this blog, I had no expectations, I just wanted to see where it would lead me. I for one, am so glad I went down that path. I remember how badly these cold sores used to affect me, but now I'm in the frame of mind that, if I had an outbreak tomorrow it wouldn't really bother me (hey, with Halloween just around the corner, they could come in handy! :P). I know it's partially due to me knowing that I can easily control them with BHT, but I think it mainly has to do with how my self esteem has improved so much. These coldsores felt like magnifying glass for all my other imperfections, and now that they gone it seems as if my self-consciousness has disappeared with it too - no matter how silly that sounds! :)
I'm not sure where the path leads from here on, but don't worry I'm still going to be experimenting! I think in the new year, I'll see what happens if I go off BHT, and how long it takes for me to get an outbreak. But I'll fill you guys in with all the details as usual.
Lastly, I would like to thank everyone that has supported me in this experiment, they've provided a great deal of comfort and I don't think I would have done it without them. And to all readers, I can only wish you the same amount of luck I've had, and hope you can enjoy outbreak free success!
Best Regards
Lucky
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