Vaginal Herpes Symptoms
Vaginal Herpes Symptoms usually start to develop anywhere from two days to a little over two weeks after contact with an infected person and can last for up to two weeks. It is usually itchy and painful, and my tingle or burn. The skin in the area becomes red and sensitive. Blisters or bumps may appear on the genital area, these open and then heal. There are sometimes visible sores in the first attack sometimes there are not. An attack can last about 10 – 21 days. The lesions are infectious during this time. Sometimes the symptoms are so mild it goes unnoticed.
The first outbreak is usually the worst and lasts longer than the ones that will come after. There is Vaginal Herpes Treatment that can be done at this time. Some other symptoms that may occur in combination, but you most likely will not experience ALL of the herpes symptoms at once. These symptoms include such things as fever, vaginal or penile discharge, lower back pain, headache, swollen lymph glands, infection of the urethra causing a burning sensation during urination, burning sensations in genitals. The lesions start as small red bumps in the genital area and then develop into the telltale blisters that open and then form scabs and heal.
Up to 60% of women have the virus yet have no vaginal herpes symptoms. They are still able to transmit the virus to others. Eighty percent of women who have a first episode caused by HSV-2 will have at least one reoccurrence in their lifetime. Fifty percent of those with HSV-1 will have one. The average is about four attacks a year, with the first year being the most severe.
Recurrent outbreaks of Vaginal Herpes Symptoms are small blisters or sores that scab over and occur anywhere in the area of the legs, thighs, buttocks, anus or pubis. These do heal in about half the time of the first outbreak.