Do I have oral herpes

[John4322]

Hi, I have a bit of history with itchy mouth cause I have allergic dermatitis and very dry skin, so whenever I sweat my entire body becomes itchy and my mouth too and once I bath it cools down. But if I don't bath and I let the sweat dry up and stay for a few hours I start to get rashes on my skin and ulcers in my mouth and even eyes itches me. This has been happening for like 6 years now. I was given loratadine, vitamin c and vitamin b mid last year. Well it didn't go away after taking these meds but I just felt I would manage it since it wasn't really getting in the way of my daily activities. Then recently on 23/01/20, there was harmattan and during harmattan everyone tends to get really dry lips and a few cracks too. In the evening I kissed a girl I've been seeing and by the way this was not our first kiss, figured out she had a crack on her inner lip, it really turned me off and I got really scared, though when I asked about the crack didn't make a big deal about it. I kissed her just a few weeks before this and I didn't fill anything. So the next morning my eyes and mouth started itching and my skin too, it was like everything just amplified, but mostly my eyes though then eyes began to stop my mouth itches began to increase, then the skin around my mouth began burning for like 4days now, but no sores have developed outside my mouth. The symptoms now just feels like a hyped up allergies but the burning around my lips makes me concerned

[auntiejessi]

I agree with Geminii - hsv1 isn't something to stress over like you are.

That said, it sounds like you have something called burning mouth syndrome, which is allergy-related. Perhaps it's something in the local tobacco stuff you smoke? Food? Your toothpaste?

Harmattan may have made it worse. You could also have a dust allergy, which is awful - I have it, too - and it's very hard to avoid.

If you got hsv1 from her, your symptoms wouldn't have appeared so quickly. That sounds allergic to me.

[Geminiii]

I had HSV1 since the age of 6 if not younger. Do not stress over something like this please.. live your life happily and worry-free.

[John4322]

Might I add that on 23/01/20, the second time I kissed her I took a local tobacco herb right before we started making out don't know if I'm reacting to that, cause it was just nasty or it's the harmattan weather cause harmattan leaves your body really really dry, but it's been almost three weeks