I've been getting cold sores all my life and they've always been painful, big and take a long time to go away. About a week ago I woke up with a very small red bump with (what looked like) a white head. So I figured it was a pimple since usually they are much worse. I actually popped it later than night, just like a pimple. It dried up and I didnt take any medication for it. The next day me and my partner had oral sex, normally I wouldn't but I figred it was just a pimple. Now, about a week later, my partner has what looks like the same thing, right now it's just a red bump (no whitehead), and I'm incredibly afraid that I may have given him the virus....what are the chances that he will recieve genital herpes!?!?! Im so scared, I don't want him to have herpes because of my dumb mistake. Im still not even sure that my bump was a cold sore in the first place...what do u think? what are the chances my partner will get genital herpes!