Different types

[KIMBERLY98]

Just wondering, not to sound stupid, but if you always break out in the same place and then, like now, it has appeared in a new spot! Could that mean it is a different strain??????? I have never had the sore in any other place, that is why I ask!  Thanks

[gracefromHHP]

This is completely normal and how the virus acts.

grace

[KIMBERLY98]

Thanks for the info. yes, it usually is on the right side, but this time it is on the left almost on my butt and it feels like it did the very first time i got it! Thanks again.

Kim

[gracefromHHP]

I'm still not sure where your new spot is from your prior post ( it's helpful if you keep all your posts together btw- just keep adding to your prior post ).

For instance - say you usually have your genital herpes lesions on your right labial area and then you get a lesion on your left buttock area this time. Did it mean that you "spread" the virus to a new area? Does it mean that you were infected with a different strain of herpes? No - what it means is when the virus reactivated this time it went down a different individual nerve in the sacral nerve ganglia ( where the virus "lives" when it isn't active and causing symptoms/shedding ) and caused an obvious lesion on a new area in the boxer short area as we call it.  It's completely normal.  Same with oral herpes - you can expect to have lesions anywhere from the nose down to the chin.

grace