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Have Herpes Virus. Bad Headache During Breakout. Getting Worse. Medications?

Hi I am a 56 year old male and I have had the Herpies virus for several years now. I would like to know why I get really bad headache and get very depressed for a couple of day when I have a breakout. I seem to breakout every time that I do something like working out or have over done it doing something very hard, also my symptoms are getting worse is I get older. I would also like to know would medicine you would recommend. Thank you for your time on this matter.
Mon, 25 Mar 2013
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Hello,

Thanks for the query

Headache at this age could be due to many causes like temporal arteritis, bleeding in the brain, tumor of the brain and tension headache. Your current symptoms are not suggestive of herpes infection. I will advise you to get evaluated by a local neurologist who will examine you and do the blood test (mainly erythrocyte sedimentation rate- to rule out temporal arteritis) and CT scan of the brain. If all these tests are negative, you may try medications like amitriptiline/nor-tryptiline etc.

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Have Herpes Virus. Bad Headache During Breakout. Getting Worse. Medications?

Hello, Thanks for the query Headache at this age could be due to many causes like temporal arteritis, bleeding in the brain, tumor of the brain and tension headache. Your current symptoms are not suggestive of herpes infection. I will advise you to get evaluated by a local neurologist who will examine you and do the blood test (mainly erythrocyte sedimentation rate- to rule out temporal arteritis) and CT scan of the brain. If all these tests are negative, you may try medications like amitriptiline/nor-tryptiline etc. Hope this helps Best wishes