Really strange... can't believe it

[healthyminded]

Hi Everyone,

I just had a blood test for herpes 1 and 2... turns out I have neither! I'm not complaining, at all. I've slept with maybe 20 people and made out with many more. How is it possible I don't have herpes 1?!?! I'm shocked. Are some people immune?

[healthyminded]

Interesting- I actually always use condoms for vag sex so I'm sure that *helped* although never for oral.

[auntiejessi]

Ophelia -

You should check out our herpes forum here, if you haven't already.  There's lots of good things you can learn about ghsv1.

Aj

[auntiejessi]

It is, sort of.  Herpes isn't always contagious, and its usually not transmitted.

Its a good thing, and maybe this is a sign to not push your luck, so to speak, and start talking about stds and condoms, etc., if you haven't been before.

I didn't get herpes until I was 36 and in a long term relationship - its just a strange little virus.  I know people who got it from their first relationships, and some who've been with MANY people and don't have it.

Aj

[healthyminded]

I'm a woman... It's still very unusual odds.

[auntiejessi]

1 in 4 have hsv2, and 30-50% of all new genital herpes infections are type 1.

Vance is a man, and its harder for men to get it than women, so that would account for him.  I don't know HM's gender.

Aj

[Ophelia23]

Ugh. I've had sex with two people (three, if you count the time I was raped). And I have genital HSV-1.

Unfair!

[Vance2335]

I have had sex with more then 20 people and done other things with maybe 50 people and I don't have either.
People are not immune it's just that either the people you were with didn't have either, didn't have an outbreak or you just didn't catch it.