The thing is, I’m not 100% sure that I have Ghsv1. The person that could have possibly passed it on to me 20 years ago, had a cold at the time . I assumed since he had a cold, maybe the virus was shedding due to his immunity being low, and he just didn’t have a cold sore outbreak. I’ve always heard that cold sores usually show up when you’re immunity is low , so I assumed just like I no longer got cold sores at that point , that maybe he didn’t either. I convinced myself that I must have caught it down there because I started itching in the days after and there was a flesh colored bump that I thought showed up in the same spot a couple times but when it was swabbed it always came back negative. I assumed maybe since the virus wasn’t in the preferred place that it was just milder. Never painful, but every once in a while I’d feel a sharp pain in my thigh or tailbone aches. All things I never experienced, before receiving oral sex that day…. So for 20 years I’ve lived in fear, knowing that there’s a possibility I could have it genitally also, although I may never truly know.
I’m new to this site, but from the videos on YouTube and the drs on justanswer, most of them say transmission from genital fluid to the eye via rubbing is very possible, and whitlow from simply touching genital fluid… very concerning and confusing.
So for all of this to be happening with his eyes and hands, I’m going crazy . He’s concerned because his eye is still blurry.
You have genital hsv1 for 15+ years, correct? You aren't transmitting to anyone outside of an outbreak.
Herpetic whitlow is uncommon, and symptoms would only be in the one hand affected. Itchy hands is not a symptom of whitlow.
4 days is possible, average is probably a week or so.
Can you tell me why you are so concerned about this? How can I help you?