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Ocular herpes ?

wellbeing2018

I am a female that was diagnosed with genital HSV1 5 years ago . After my initial breakout I haven’t experienced anymore . I was getting ...

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Handjob from girlfriend and she used her spit as lube

Kinghoywood

My girlfriend has genital herpes (we haven’t had sex yet), she gives me handjobs and uses her spit well this handjob was pretty long and ...

2 answers

Confused on the results. Please clarify

Help4Me2020

I went to the lab to get tested for HSV2 to find out if I was positive or negative. HSV 1 and 2- Spec AB, IgG w/Rfx HSV1 IgG, Type Sp...

1 answer

Unusually high IgG levels in HSV-1 testing results

RainierEagle

Recently i did my herpes type-specific blood tests, results came a couple of days ago and HSV-1 was positive but HSV-2 was negative. What...

15 answers

Positive Herpes 2 result

HSV2falsepositive

Hi! Recently my boyfriend received his STD results. Everything turned up negative except Herpes Herpes Simplex virus type 1 ( EI...

13 answers

Dr. Handsfield

Vanessa2323

I heard Dr. Hansfield has only seen 2 occurrences of hand to genital transmission. I’d like to know the details of those transmissions or...

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