Knee to genital herpes

[greylady]

I hope you are still here to answer this.  I was reading the 2006 thread that told a gentlemen that he couldn't have transfered herpes from his scrotum to his arm.   Would that work in reverse?   I had an undiagnosed rash that would arise every few months on my knee.  I admit it looked a lot like the herpes pictures I've seen.   Now I have genital herpes.  I was told that I could have transfered it from my knee.  My former fella (who refused to be tested)  thought this was true.  Is that even possible?  


This discussion is related to Did i transfer my genital herpes to my arm?.

[auntiejessi]

Its the same infection.  The location of your outbreaks has just changed.

You always had genital herpes, but had obs on your knees.  Now you get them genitally.

AJ

[greylady]

Sorry, I meant to say that it has NOT reoccurred on my knee since having it on my privates.

[greylady]

The thing is that I had it on the knee first and I had it for about 20 years that way.  So how did it get from my knee to my groin?

[greylady]

I was diagnosed with a blood test which said I had both types.   I also had a visual inspection of the groin area.  The odd thing is that the undiagnosed rash on my knee has reoccurred since having them on my genitals.

[auntiejessi]

Herpes infects nerve groups, and since the sacral ganglia nerves go from the waist down, its possible to have outbreaks on your knee.  The most common areas are in the boxer short region, but genital herpes can cause knee outbreaks.

AJ

[scared_half_to_death]

How were you diagnosed with genital herpes? What type of herpes do you have, i.e. HSV1 or HSV2? If it was via a bloodtest, this could reflect the rash on your knee if it was caused by HSv2.