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can you have oral herpes and show no symptoms for a few years and then have an outbreak?  also if you have had a fever blister or cold sore does that mean you have oral herpes.   and can you with no break out of a cold sore or fever blister pass it on to someone through oral sex? and if someone has hsv1  in the genitals can they pass it to some one if they perform oral or if the have vaginal sex?


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TRUE THANKS FOR THE INFO    Boss
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It honestly could be either.  You will probably never know.

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    she was tested with a culture that came back as ghsv1 .  she also as a kid had cold sores, fever blisters and that sort of thing.  thanks for the info it puts things at ease.  now i had no symptoms when i performed oral on her could i have passed it on to her.. or is it possible for her to have contracted ghsv1 from a passed partner 6 months ago or even longer and it is just now surfacing through an out break?  just a thought  thanks again  for the info   Boss
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Was she tested with a culture that came back as ghsv1?  Or just a culture that said herpes?

If you both have antibodies, you don't need to do anything except avoid sex with symptoms.

She doesn't even need valtrex unless she is getting a lot of obs, or just wants to treat the ones she gets.  She doesn't need to take it daily to reduce transmission to you.

Your future with her isn't at risk.  Should you all fall in love and marry, etc., the only danger to future kids is an outbreak at delivery, and her doc might put her on valtrex the last 6 weeks of pregnancy to prevent that.  If she did have an ob, then she's have a c-section done.

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Thanks for the info,  ok long story short i have had oral and vaginal intercourse with only one person and i was her first everything anyways, my question, and i apologize because i am new at this,  this new girl i am dating has had 4 partners she told me she was tested for every thing,  and she is clean  now i have had cold sores as a kid so has my ex we dated for 9 years, no genital hsv1 i always made sure that if i performed oral that i had absolutely no sign of a sore " i have heard of horror stories about transmission to the genitals"  back to my current status  i performed oral on the girl i am dating  and of course making sure that i have no sign of a sore and she has had cold sores in her mouth as a kid too, and this time which was not the first time i performed oral on her  about two weeks later she has a rash on her vagina and goes to the Doctor to be tested and the Doc tells her she has Hsv1  oral herpes on her vagina.  we are still dating   she is taking Valtrex sp?  is it possible to contract hsv1 on the genitals and show no sign for months or even up to a year?  and what safety precautions do we need to take I am totally new to this and want to be safe and smart can i get it i really care about her and what if  marriage is in the future  and children things of that nature  not trying to bombard you with my problems  just need someone to talk to thank you for responding  Boss
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Hi there -

Yes, you can have oral hsv1 and not get symptoms for a long time, then suddenly get a cold sore.  If you are getting cold sores/fever blisters, that is hsv1.

You can spread it to someone orally or genitally when you don't have symptoms.  Genital hsv1 (ghsv1) now accounts for about 30-50% of all new genital herpes infections.

If you have given someone genital hsv1, then that person might spread it to someone, but its not at all likely.  If someone already has hsv1, they probably won't get it genitally as they have antibodies to help fight that off.

AJ

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