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Afraid that I may have caught hsv1 or hsv2 on my mouth and penis
Thank you for taking the time to read my post. 4 days ago I kissed and received oral sex from a colleague at work. She had told me a few months ago that she did not get any cold sores. 3 days later she came to work with a cold sore. I asked her how she could have got that as she said she didn't get them. She said it was the first time that she's had them. I know that I wasn't the one to give her that as I have been tested in the past and it was negative for both types. What are the chances that I could get this on my lips or on my penis if at the time she had no visible sores. I know you can still transmit it during a prodrome but from What I've read it usually is up to 2 days before sores are present and this event happened 3 days before any visible sore. I'm so afraid that I may have contacted this and I have just gotten back into a relationship with an ex girlfriend, so I don't want to pass anything onto her. I asked a doctor how long it takes before i can do a test and he said 2 weeks is sufficient. From what I've read it says i should wait 3 months to do a test. Is my doctor wrong? He also gave me famvir as a precaution and said it could help to kill the virus before it multiplies. I am so anxious now and am desperate for your knowledge on this.
I actually I believed I had one of these two viruses. Near the end of January I had sex with my girlfriend, then around the end of march I started to get a red patch around the tip of my penis almost like a ring. It was a little raw an looked shiny. It itched but only for a day or so and hasent itched since then. Also the patches sort of scab up themselves. I freaked out an went to my doctor an he said it did not look like heroines or anything more like fungal thing. He gave me this cream an it slowly went away an just recently came back, I had gotten tested for heroines an it came back negative. So I was wondering if you had any idea what this could possibly be????
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Hello,
Thanks for posting your query.
I can understand your concern for HSV infection.
Your girlfriend showed signs of herpes ( hsv 1 ) as cold sore after 3 days of giving you oral sex. For a person who has had herpes cold sores from herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV1), it is unlikely for HSV1 to be transmitted to the genitals through oral sex. But if someone who has never had herpes cold sores before, infection with HSV1 through oral sex can result in a true primary episode of genital herpes. although HSV1 does not have genitalia as its preferred site but transmission may occur to genitalia also. Your girlfriend did not have any visible sore at that time but after 3 days, cold sore appeared which means that 3 days before also active infection was brimming up. So chances of HSV 1 transmission is there.
Most individuals have no or only minimal signs or symptoms from HSV-1 or HSV-2 infection. When signs do occur, they typically appear as one or more blisters. The blisters break, leaving tender ulcers (sores) that may take two to four weeks to heal the first time they occur. Typically, another outbreak can appear weeks or months after the first, but it almost always is less severe and shorter than the first outbreak.
When a person is exposed to a virus, the body responds by developing antibodies against it. These antibodies remain in the body and help lessen or prevent the severity of reoccurrences. A blood test checks for these antibodies to the virus, not the virus itself. Depending on the person and the type of test, it can take from 3-4 weeks to four months after exposure to HSV for antibodies to be detected in the blood. So any blood test done prior to that time, if you DO have Herpes, will result in a false negative. When genital or mucocutaneous lesions are present, viral culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing are recommended and PCR has been shown to be 1.5 to 4 times more sensitive than viral culture in detecting HSV infection. When lesions are absent, type-specific serological tests are used. PCR detects the virus a bit early. So follow up with your doctor, take the antiviral and get the tests done as prescribed.
Hope that this information helps and hope that you get better soon.
Wishing you good health.
Thanks for posting your query.
I can understand your concern for HSV infection.
Your girlfriend showed signs of herpes ( hsv 1 ) as cold sore after 3 days of giving you oral sex. For a person who has had herpes cold sores from herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV1), it is unlikely for HSV1 to be transmitted to the genitals through oral sex. But if someone who has never had herpes cold sores before, infection with HSV1 through oral sex can result in a true primary episode of genital herpes. although HSV1 does not have genitalia as its preferred site but transmission may occur to genitalia also. Your girlfriend did not have any visible sore at that time but after 3 days, cold sore appeared which means that 3 days before also active infection was brimming up. So chances of HSV 1 transmission is there.
Most individuals have no or only minimal signs or symptoms from HSV-1 or HSV-2 infection. When signs do occur, they typically appear as one or more blisters. The blisters break, leaving tender ulcers (sores) that may take two to four weeks to heal the first time they occur. Typically, another outbreak can appear weeks or months after the first, but it almost always is less severe and shorter than the first outbreak.
When a person is exposed to a virus, the body responds by developing antibodies against it. These antibodies remain in the body and help lessen or prevent the severity of reoccurrences. A blood test checks for these antibodies to the virus, not the virus itself. Depending on the person and the type of test, it can take from 3-4 weeks to four months after exposure to HSV for antibodies to be detected in the blood. So any blood test done prior to that time, if you DO have Herpes, will result in a false negative. When genital or mucocutaneous lesions are present, viral culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing are recommended and PCR has been shown to be 1.5 to 4 times more sensitive than viral culture in detecting HSV infection. When lesions are absent, type-specific serological tests are used. PCR detects the virus a bit early. So follow up with your doctor, take the antiviral and get the tests done as prescribed.
Hope that this information helps and hope that you get better soon.
Wishing you good health.
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