How does suppressive therapy differ from episodic therapy?
You may now be taking medication as symptoms of an outbreak begin in order to reduce the outbreak’s severity and duration. (This method of treatment is called “acute therapy” or “episodic therapy.”) However, treating genital Herpes Simplex Virus infections this way does not actually affect the number of outbreaks you may experience. In contrast, suppressive therapy means taking daily medication to help suppress outbreaks before symptoms ever begin.
