12 year dormancy period?

[worried_32123]

I am a 32 year old happily married male and have been monogamous with my wife for 10 years. My last sexual partner before my wife was around 12 years ago. Around a month ago I developed 2 red, slightly sore areas 5-8mm underneath my foreskin near to the head of my penis. These were linear in shape, and follow the folds of skin and I thought they were abrasions. They both healed up after about 10 days and I had unprotected sex (vaginal and oral (rec)) with my wife soon after. My penis felt a little sore in these areas during sex. The following day, one of the sore areas had blistered. The blister soon burst and left an open sore which is linear and follows the creases in the skin. This sore has now begun to discharge - a white/yellow non smelly discharge just like you'd get with an infected cut anywhere on your skin. The area isn't sore unless I retract the the foreskin and the area is stretched. After searching around the web, I'm thinking this is possibly a herpes infection. My wife has never had any problems and has never had cold sores, although she was found to be a group B strep carrier when she had our latest child 6 months ago.  Is it possible for Herpes to be dormant in me for such a long time? I know I should go to a GUM clinic but can't get any time off work at the moment.
Cheers, Chris

[worried_32123]

Hi Daisy, thanks for the advice. I will try and take it!

Chris.

[daisy315]

It is possible for Herpes to be dormant for a long time in some people even as long as 12 years,I think you should get checked out it would be best if you could take time to pop aling to a GUM Clinic while the sore is there and have it culture swabbed,it may be Herpes it may not but it's best that you find out what this and err on the side of caution.
If it does turn out to be Herpes then your wife needs to be tested as well,it does seem to have Herpes characteristics but it's not to say it definately is only testing can define that.

Good Luck
Daisy