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Many patients report avoiding new relationships for fear of transmitting the disease.
With suppressive therapy, patients take a medication over a continuous period to prevent future outbreaks, rather than be treated when an outbreak occurs. However, while there are effective antiviral medicines available, more than three-quarters of those diagnosed do not receive treatment. The recommended dosage of Valtrex for chronic suppressive therapy is 1,000 mg daily. In patients with a history of nine or fewer recurrences per year, an alternative dose is 500 mg once daily. In clinical trials for suppressive therapy of genital herpes, Valtrex successfully prevented 85 per cent of genital herpes recurrences after 16 weeks and prevented up to 78 per cent after one year of treatment.