Is it true?

[Takeachance11]

Is burning or itching alone a symptom of herpes? I read on other posts from Dr. HHH that these two symptoms alone are not symptoms of herpes. He states that if you do get symptoms, itching & burning will be accompanied with sores.

Is this true?

[Fleetwood20]

Exactly, absolutely no reason to ever suspect that you have or will ever have genital HSV1!

[Takeachance11]

Thank you Fleetwood20! You have helped me so much!

So I should not be worried about getting a genital outbreak from here on out, since it has been 3 years & I have never gotten a genital outbreak?

[Fleetwood20]

That's right, not only is there no reason to believe you have genital HSV1, it is pretty close factually that you cannot now be infected genitally.

[Takeachance11]

Great, thank you!

As I said before when I first got tested 2 & a half years ago I was positive for hsv 1 with values greater than 8.0 so it was a well established infection.i do not know where I got it from.

Can I conclude that since I've only had oral symptoms and never a genital outbreak, that I do not have hsv 1 genitally as well?

It's been 3 years since I tested positive and I've never had a genital outbreak, nor did I have genital symptoms  before I got tested.

[Fleetwood20]

Not at all. It is believed that up to half of people with HSV1 have not had outbreaks beyond six months of infection that occurred before they can remember.

[Takeachance11]

Thank you!

Is it weird that I've only had two cold sores in my entire life?

[Fleetwood20]

That is correct. Itching and burning on their own with no subsequent lesions will not be related to herpes. Such symptoms cannot be used to infer a herpes infection.