Throat/Esophageal Herpes & Flu like symptoms

Valtres, lysine, good sleep habits and stress reduction are huge partners in fighting this illness and putting it into a latent phase. I'd make sure i am eating a balanced diet and also try some mond body exercise modalities like yoga.  give the regiment some time to work too.

I just happened upon your posting, albeit a number of months later, but perhaps you'll see this response...which could be helpful if you still are suffering repeat oral herpes outbreaks.  According to German New Medicine (GNM), it makes perfect sense that you "contracted" oral herpes without sexual contact at all (or without new sexual contact, i.e., from someone other than your husband).  GNM looks at the distinct types of emotional conflicts that give rise to the ailments we humans suffer.  The beautiful thing is that all the ailments/diseases are part of a perfect biologic plan to aid the human in dealing biologically with the conflict in a meaningful (although sometimes painful) way...it's our evolutionary programming that dictates how our bodies respond to emotional conflicts during them and after they are resolved. 

For example, with oral herpes, there is a mouth or tongue conflict that happens prior to the outbreak (e.g., someone may have to do a Breathalyzer and loses his license after he tests positive for drunk driving; he now associates a negative conflict with his mouth).  During the conflict phase, the oral mucosa, made of squamous epithelial cells, ulcerates with the presence of pain (with the biological purpose of enlarging the buccal or oral cavity, including possibly the tongue...the larger the oral cavity the easier one get rid of the conflicting "morsel"...which one doesn't need actually to survive the Breathalyzer test obviously, but on a biologically-purposeful level, evolutionarily going way back in time, this was a helpful function of the body...we haven't lost these biological protective systems).  During the post-conflict resolution phase, there is acute swelling and of the mouth mucosa with possible bleeding.  Less or no pain in the post-conflict phase.  I say less because sometimes the conflict is not fully addressed and there is some healing going on and some parts of the mouth still ulcerated because the conflict hasn't fully been addressed.  Another example of a possible cause of oral herpes could be giving someone oral sex when you don't want to be doing so or if you feel you are being gagged (even unintentionally) in the process or if you don't like if a man ejaculates in your mouth.  This scenario leads into possible esophageal herpes as well, as the conflict there has to do with a "conflict of not wanting to swallow a morsel and/or wanting to spit the morsel out".  Ulcers will happen during the conflict in the esophagus, which could feel like you swallowed razor blades and which makes even swallowing water difficult.  They repair themselves in the post-conflict phase, but the accompanying water retention/swelling that can occur, can certainly make this a painful process. 

With any post-conflict healing process, there is typically a lot of tiredness and often fever.  This is necessary as part of the healing process.  As difficult as it is, especially with caring for a small child, it is definitely your body's way of forcing you into healing yourself through rest and proper nutrition. 

A person could have the oral and esophageal herpes at the same time, which is a real joy.  In a particular case, the person thought that they had contracted oral herpes from someone they kissed that had a cold sore on the lips, but in fact, it developed after a conflict with the partner prior to the "cold sore-partner".  The conflict there was that the man kissed the woman in a way that was very obnoxious to the woman, i.e., he stuck his tongue in her mouth in a very hard way, repeatedly, instead of gently like the typical French-kissing she was used to.  Additionally, she reported that he had a lot of extra saliva that she felt troubled by and thought to herself during the moment that she definitely didn't want to swallow this guy's spit!  Probably needless to say, she didn't kiss this fellow again.  A similar situation would lead to a re-occurrence.

I hope this helpful.  It certainly does blow the old STD/germ-transmission through sexual contact theory right out of the water...but the beautiful thing about it is that it makes so much sense.  Check out www.germannewmedicine.ca for more info about the theory.  And, good luck in finding out the conflict that caused the first outbreak, which is how, by resolving it fully, you can keep yourself from being re-triggered by the harmful causing factor that started it all off.

Best of luck!