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Hsv1 questions

I am a 25 year old male. As a child I would sometimes get cold sores on my lips. Now that I am older I recently got a cold sore on my lip accompanied w/ a mildly tender gland in my neck.

I read that those are generally associated w/ new infections...does this mean this new cold sore is due to HSV2? Or can the gland sometimes do this during a cold sore if it's
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Hi, with a recent herpes infection a sore would develop before swollen glands also flu like symptoms would often appear. but bottom line oral hsv2 is not common at all.
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If it's the first one in a long while
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