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The best proven medicine for genital herpes is a combination of virus fighting drugs along with some other medicines that will help to alleviate the painful blisters and sores that are the major symptoms of herpes. Currently, there is no cure for genital herpes but there are many treatments which could help a patient live a healthier, happier life with the disease that is known as one of the many different sexually transmitted diseases.

Besides the whelps and pimple-like blisters, there is burning and itching, which some medications will help to alleviate. A medical professional like a nurse practitioner or a primary care physician needs to be seen as soon as a person discovers he or she has been affected with the virus. This nasty virus may lay inside the body, deep down and not cause breakouts for many years and then all of a sudden become ‘active’ in a person’s body when their immune system is compromised.

With many of the treatments, they attack the virus and make it ‘retreat’ back into the body where it could lay dormant for many months, even a year or longer. However, when it returns it could be weaker or it could be stronger; it will depend on the individual’s immune system and how well it can fight back against the virus.

The best proven medicine for genital herpes is one that will be used by the person suffering from the disease and not sitting in the medicine cabinet. There are some mild side effects from some medications, especially the ointments and creams, however, these are better than the symptoms of burning, itching, swollen, pus-filled sores.

Some of the drugs to help in the treatment of genital herpes, the ones that send the virus deep into the body, contain a combination of powerful medications. A mixture of antibiotics to help control the virus, an anti-fungal to help dry up the pus and keep the sores from spreading and an anti-inflammatory to help keep the skin around the blisters from swelling.

If an individual with herpes of the genitals continues to take medication in a pill form long after the blisters have dried up and gone away, they might find that they have been all but ‘cured’ of the herpes virus. They will experience fewer and fewer outbreaks, if any, as long as they continue on the medication. And sometimes, they will have a break out that is so mild, there is less pain associated with the blisters as they grow older, however there are some people that the opposite effect happens, as they age, the severity of the outbreaks are more painful.

In order to begin feeling better, a patient with genital herpes must keep taking their medications, because they don’t all work on the first try and some take time to get in a person’s system. A doctor will ask their patient not to give up too quickly and have faith that their medication, even the best proven medicine for genital herpes, usually a mixture of creams and pills, will work for them.