the chances of transmitting hsv1 to the genital area are always fairly low. Totally up to you and your partner if you want to only engage in protected oral sex or not.
no, shedding of the virus doesn't really get significantly lower the longer you are infected. We don't have as many shedding studies on oral hsv1 as we do genital herpes but everyone sheds the virus over time, regardless of whether they are getting recurrences or not.
really no reason for him to retest if his last testing was done at least 3 months after the last time he had sex with another person. did you both also test for all other std's too?
Hello there Grace. Thank you so much for replying.
Yes we did. We both came back clean for all other stds.