Hi,
About 8 months ago, my boyfriend and I spent a night away, and thinking that his cold sore had healed, he performed oral sex on me. A few days later, I developed some sores around my vagina and went to the doctor, but they didn't think it was HSV at all, and sent me home. A few days later my symptoms worsened, my lymph nodes became enlarged, and the sores began to crust, and I was sure it was HSV. I went back to the doc, at which point they did a swab test, and I found out I was positive for HSV-1.
I have not had a recurrence of HSV-1 symptoms since (it's been 8 months) despite the fact that I've been highly stressed out from grad school applications and a bad break up, haven't been eating well, and spent pretty much the whole summer out in the sun (which I hear can all be triggers of recurrent outbreaks). When I've posed the following questions to doctors, they've all given me different answers, and left me more confused than I was at the beginning.
If I have sex with a new partner (assuming they've had no previous exposure to HSV of any kind at all) ... what are the chances I might transmit it to them during an asymptomatic phase through genital contact? Do I need to tell them I have genital herpes, or is genital HSV-1infection a one-time thing ... like getting the chicken pox?
Also: What are the chances that I will have an outbreak in the future? Do most people with genital HSV-1 have recurrent outbreaks, or is there a chance that I might not have an outbreak again?
Thank you so much!