if you are concerned about your lip symptoms, be seen today or tomorrow for a lesion culture. even the best blood tests still miss 1 out of every 10 hsv1 infections but a lesion culture would pick up on it if done promptly.
grace
Thanks grace for being informative to my question. I got tested earlier in the year for herpes and rest of stds.. and the results were negative... but now i notice i have a slight headace and something that looks like a sore on the corner of my mouth,,,.
so sharing drinks as an adult is low risk?
you were not at risk for herpes from this. the common cold and flu perhaps but usually alcohol kills that too.
as an adult - oral herpes is almost exclusively transmitted through romantic type kisses. statistically 1 out of every 2-3 people you know has it. it's incredibly common and you might even have it yourself even if you can't recall ever having had a cold sore.
grace
you know the saying, "no question is a stupid question" this does not apply here. Are you kidding? There is no way you can get genital herpes in the way you described. .
Hey what oral herpes in this situration?
if it were that easy to catch literally everyone would have genital herpes and there would be no stigma.