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Can You Get A WORSE HSV1 Infection????
I've been getting minor cold sores for over 7 years. I've never been tested but assumed that I have HSV1. I started dating a girl and she told me up front that she tested positive for HSV1. I told her that I get cold sores already so it shouldn't be an issue. 4 months into the relationship I become very sick with flu like symptoms (but no coughing, sore throat or nasal discharge). My lymph nodes in my neck become very swollen and my cheeks, gums, entire mouth and tongue started to burn with pain and had what appears to be tiny blisters. This lasted for about 2 weeks with on and off again chills. Looking on the internet the symptoms appear to be that of a primary HSV1 infections. How can this be as I already get cold sores on my upper lip?? I got tested about 3 weeks after this incident and the doctor confirmed that I had HSV1 and negative for HSV 2. Is it possible to have HSV1 only on your outer lip and then get infected in your mouth? Or is it an all or nothing infection deal. I'm starting to think that I should have avoided this girl as she made my HSV1 infection even worse!! Or could this be something else????
It's not unusual for a newly acquired hsv1 oral infection to involve the inside of the mouth and the throat. Recurrences are almost always just on the lip, nose and chin area and not inside the mouth.
Have you seen your provider again for further evaluation?
grace
Have you seen your provider again for further evaluation?
grace
Grace are there various degrees of HSV 1 infections in the mouth area? Can you have it only on the lips? Then get infected inside of the mouth? Then in extreme cases have it spread into the throat? Or is it an all or nothing infection deal? I keep thinking that I originally only had a minor lip infection and thanks to this new girlfriend my ENTIRE mouth is now infected!! Please advise!!!
sorry - missed the no coughing and such details in your post but regardless my final point is what's important - many viruses out there that have absolutely nothing to do with herpes that are more likely what is going on here. it's coxsackie season for starters as well as many, many other culprits out there. You won't get a repeat primary of hsv1. You don't have to stop seeing this gal because of this. You swapped spit, you got germs, happens all the time .
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Uper respiratory infection? With no cough or sore throat and a totally inflamed mouth, gums and toungue????
Probably what happened is that you caught a viral upper respiratory infection. Very common this time of the year.
You already had hsv1 so you wouldn't get it "worse" or get a primary again. You were already protected.
grace
You already had hsv1 so you wouldn't get it "worse" or get a primary again. You were already protected.
grace
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Herpes spreads by oral, vaginal and anal sex.
Herpes sores blister, then burst, scab and heal.
STIs are the most common cause of genital sores.
Millions of people are diagnosed with STDs in the U.S. each year.
STDs can't be transmitted by casual contact, like hugging or touching.
Syphilis is an STD that is transmitted by oral, genital and anal sex.
