I'd see a dermatologist at this point. Your description of symptoms sounds like it's something non-oral herpes related going on.
grace
when I'm not there=when I'm next there. .
Thanks. I'll ask for a swab for when I'm not there.
Any idea what I should do if this confirms that it is HSV-1 (as symptoms are exactly the same, just more constant, and began while my partner had an outbreak)? Presumably there's something like a normal distribution to people's ability to control the virus, and some people are unlucky - does anyone know what they're meant to do?
I think the symptoms may now suggest something else, you now have reason to be skeptical as to whether this is HSV causing the lesions. Perhaps get one swabbed to check. Your body should be able to cope with the virus quite adequately.
I don't know if I got specifically tested for it. I assumed that test was done when I was tested for HIV, but don't have a copy of those results.
My partner was having an outbreak, then I got mouth ulcers, tingling lips, an unusual sore throat, etc. Then I was getting tingling lips a lot of the time and a cold sore (or what looked like one) every six weeks or so, then I've had this marathon outbreak.
My doctor saw me during the initial outbreak and thought it was HSV-1 then. Symptoms since then have also seemed to conform. All these things have meant that I haven't been too sceptical of my doctor's diagnosis.
Do you know that these are herpes lesions? How were you diagnosed in the first instance?