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can i transmit herpes to my genitals?

can i transmit herpes to my genitals?

i have oral herpes, and recently this week ive been getting no sleep so i have been very tired and stressed. i felt an outbreak coming on so i put on medication at the first sign of the outbreak. and as the week went on i continued to treat myself if any signs of an outbreak came up. but today i noticed 2 small bumps around my pubic area that looked like herpes. they were close to eachother like herpes usually is and i also spotted another smaller bump, but it wasnt raised, on my pelvis area. do you think i could have transmitted herpes to my genitals? i no you said it was unlikely but i read that it was possible though. i shave my pubic area time to time as well, so can this be just from shaving? ive noticed some redness where the pubic area and the penis meets making me think mayb more bumps will form there or mayb again its also from shaving? in addition, sometimes my genitals may itch from time to time, i dont know whether if this is from shaving or from just sweating and wearing tight clothes but the fact that these bumps happened the week when i started to feel signs of an outbreak leads me to be suspicous. i still dont have any outbreaks cause ive been treating myself but there is stll a risk rght? what are the chances that i transmitted genital herpes to myself? cause i feel my immune system is weak right now and maybe its a possibility? i dont know what to think. but i am very worried. please let me know what you think of the situation. could the herpes have moved to my genitals now?
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This sounds more like ingrown hairs or folliculitis from shaving than anything.

No you won't transmit your own oral herpes to the genital herpes. You have a very well established oral herpes infection that gives you very significant protection against that happening - no matter how flexible you might be ;)

Doesn't mean you don't have hsv2 genitally - it just means that you are worrying needlessly about transmitting your oral herpes to the genital area.

grace
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