I had unprotected oral sex!!! Do I have something?

I had unprotected oral sex, lasted about 4 to 5 mins receiving and about 1 to 2 minutes giving (I got a sense of WTF are you doing and I stopped) Anyway, I rinsed my mouth right after with mouth wash, I took a shower and clean my penis pretty good, I also urinated just in case that changes anything.
Right away I questioned this and felt it was a huge mistake, I didn't go home right after I went to work out. But when I did get home, I rinsed my mouth several times with mouth wash, actually like 3 or 4 kinds of mouth wash mixed together. I then did research and found out that hydrogen peroxide helps against Herpes, so I rinsed my mouth with hydrogen peroxide. I did this plus added blistex to my lips the next day, and lysine for my lips.
On the 3rd or 4th day I experienced soreness in my gums, not swollen or too red I guess, but sore, nothing more than just soreness. I freaked!!! I also noticed the next day of the oral sex, little tiny tiny skin color spots in the middle bottom of my lower lip and 3 or so on the left and right side. I never noticed this before, but I was also never looking for it. So I don't know what this is. The soreness of my upper gums hasn't produced anything else and actually it is going away. But before the soreness I wasn't rinsing out the hydrogen peroxide from my mouth, I'm not sure if this actually triggered the soreness. So I stopped rinsing with it and it seems like it is going back to normal. I went to the doctor and he told me that it is really hard to catch something orally, and that he would test me. He never examined me however, and when I said i had sorness he simply said it might be herpes and that I shouldn't be putting my mouth where it dont belong. I have been taking vitamin c to imporove my immune system, L Lysine, I'm putting coconut oil all around my mouth and face, I have the lip lysine every 2 hours, rinsing with mouth wash constantly, experiencing none of the usual signs of Herpes nothing at all in my genitals (thank god) and other than my soreness in the gums which is almost totally gone, nothing more (oh those tiny tiny spots) I feel fine, but obviously freaked out and been praying like crazy that I dont have anything, I haven't heard back yet from my results. But I just dont know if I have anything, can anyone help???

[Bhupinder Kaur, MD]

Hello,
From the symptoms it does not look like cold sores to me. It looks like irritation of the oral cavity due to repeated rinsing of the mouth with the mouthwash and hydrogen peroxide. Pain, burning, tingling, or itching occurs at the infection site before the sores appear. Then clusters of blisters erupt which break down. You need to get some investigations like sample from the sores to identify the virus, culture analysis, Tzanck smear, antigen and antibody studies and blood sampling for antibody studies done to confirm the diagnosis. My sincere advice would be to consult a dermatologist.


It is very difficult to precisely confirm a diagnosis without examination and investigations and the answer is based on the medical information provided. For exact diagnosis, you are requested to consult your doctor. I sincerely hope that helps. Take care and please do keep me posted on how you are doing.