I have hsv 2 orally now. Had hsv2 genitally for 10 years and got orally a year ago from someone else infected.. Even though it is very rare to get don't believe the findings about outbreaks. Even after a year I am still breaking out regularly orally. Of the few studies that are available about it it mostly states that reoccurrence is far and few which is bs. Cuz my break outs orally is on regular basis
Ive got Oral HSV2. I you want more info please let me know
Hi Grace,
I've been surfing around a bit looking for your study and can't find it. Could you post it?
Thanks Grace. This tends to confirm my thoughts that getting oral hsv 2 would be considered rare.
I believe it's 10% of all newly acquired hsv2 genital infections also include a hsv2 oral infection if I'm recalling the study correctly. this fully support HHH's statement of a "substantial minority". Hsv2 oral infections rarely reoccur ( once in a lifetime on average ) and don't shed much ( 1% of days ).
the 3% of all oral herpes infections being hsv2 means out of everyone who has oral herpes, only about 3% of them have hsv2 orally.
I know, can get confusing sometimes but the take home message is still the same - you could have hsv2 orally but odds are always in your favor that you don't. Even if you do, it's not the issue compared to hsv2 genital infections as far as transmission to a partner. make more sense?
grace
Oral HSV-2 is uncommon in people because quite honestly HSV-2 doesn't really like the oral site. I think what Dr. H was saying was basically that the inital infection for if you have HSV-2 Gentially and Oral isn't rare at some points. The poster was asking about both sites being infected at the same time. To which Dr. H replied that HSV-1 doesn't typically work that way but HSV-2 does sometimes work that way. HSV-2 orally does not show up as much as say an HSV-1 Oral infection would.
However, I would wait for grace's further input to see if I got it right.