Valtrex: dosing and absorption, post-RNY

I'm going to call a spade a spade here. I'm recently separated from my husband, and I'm going to start dating soon. I'm 4.5 months post-op from my RNY (and down 100 lbs!) and I have herpes. I'll tell my future partners about herpes but I'd love to skip the actual outbreaks. I'm going to talk to my doctor about getting on Valtrex, but I'm wondering if I should ask for the liquid (and probably an 800mg daily dose?) or for the caplets... is the 500mg caplet the same size or smaller than the 1g caplet? It sounds like I should be on 1 gram a day, based on the on-line prescribing info, but of course that's up to my doctor. Does anyone know how well we absorb this medication with the RNY? My doctor is unlikely to know (I'm his first WLS patient). Any post-op folks taking the same dosage as they were pre-op noticing more outbreaks? Gosh, I guess I'm out of the closet about EVERYTHING here now. LOL Thanks in advance for any info. If it matters, I've had HSV-2 for 15 years and have 4-10 outbreaks a year.

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