A female friend was recently diagnosed with HSV. She contracted the virus from a man she had been dating for around a year. He did not divulge that he was HSV + until she developed symptoms, went to her ob/gyn & was diagnosed HSV+. When she told the HSV + man of her circumstance, he confessed he was HSV +. She immediately ended the relationship. This happened 10 months ago.
Since this time she has had almost constant genital breakouts. She is extremely anxious, which I think increases her chance of breakouts secondary to stress. She is an otherwise healthy 62 y/o widow who takes no other medications than Acyclovir 500 mg 5X Daily. Should her physician consider other antiviral agents (famcyclovir, valacyclovir) and an anxiolytic (mild) for possible stress-related outbreaks.
Are there other treatment options (e.g., vaccines) or the possibility of participating a research ongoing research protocol?