Herpes and breast surgery?

Thank you for your question.  Unfortunately the herpes virus is a virus that stays with you forever.  Outbreaks can be triggered by stress such a surgery.  While it is unlikely that a breast augmentation will cause an outbreak your surgeon can put you on an antiviral medication ahead of time which will minimize the risk.  I would recommend you discuss your concerns with your plastic surgeon.Good luck with your upcoming surgery, and happy holidays.

.Genital herpes is not a contraindication a breast augmentation. Since stress of surgery could trigger an outbreak may be worthwhile to treat prophylactically with an antiviral

Surgery is a "stress" on our system, and stress can cause herpetic outbreaks, so to that extent any surgery could cause an outbreak.  Discuss this with your surgeon before surgery.  

While nobody can ever accurately predict the future, we certainly can look at past experience.  Herpes is a large family of viruses, which also includes the chicken pox virus, and one of the hallmarks of these viruses is that they can live for the rest of your life in the nerve roots and come out at certain times of stress, like colds (thus "cold sores" or "fever blisters") or other illness or injury.  The type of herpes virus usually found in the genital and oral locations is herpes simplex, and it usually affects the mucus membranes, although other areas can be affected as well.  As long as you don't have an outbreak of herpes at the time of surgery, especially anywhere near the breasts, it is unlikely that this type of surgery would lead to an outbreak of genital herpes simplex based on past experience with this.  You would be more at risk for an outbreak of shingles, or herpes zoster, coming from latent chicken pox virus than herpes simplex.  I personally have never seen an outbreak of genital herpes attributable to breast augmentation surgery, but you should check with your surgeon, and if there is any concern at all on your part or his/hers, then it is very simple to go on a course of prophylactic antiviral medications just to be on the safe side.  Good luck.

There is a possibility that you can have an outbreak from the stress of surgery, your surgeon may give you a prescription for a prophylactic .