Genital herpes

Is stress really a trigger or is that folklore?

Everyone says stress. It sounds like the kind of thing people say about everything.

oak_table 4 months ago

NoteMember experience, not medical advice. Symptoms overlap between infections and only a test can tell them apart.

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second_tuesday 4 months ago

Stress is one of the more consistently reported triggers, alongside illness, fatigue, friction and for some people menstruation and sunlight.

The mechanism is plausible rather than folklore, since immune function and recurrence are linked. But the evidence is a lot softer than the confidence with which people state it.

evening_ferry 4 months ago

The trap I fell into was treating stress as something I had failed to control, which then became its own stressor. Noticing a pattern is useful. Blaming yourself for an outbreak is not.

grey_morning 4 months ago

Keeping a simple note of dates is the only way to know whether your own triggers are real. Mine turned out to be sleep rather than stress, which I would never have worked out from a general list.

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