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giving self herpes
I recently awoke the other day to a swollen upper lip. I had no idea what it was and thought i may have been bitten by something. The next day my lip was the same ( still swollen) but no open cut or sore. Since then, I was kissing my partner throughout the day and then they performed oral sex on me that night. Today I woke up to my lip still swollen, but now with a little bit of a sore and found out from my doctor that it is indeed a cold sore. Since finding out and since the actual sore came out I have had no sexual contact or kissing. Is it possible that even though my my lip was only puffy and there was no open sore or lesion that i gave the herpes 1 virus to my partner and then I contracted genital herpes from the oral sex?
auto-innoculation rarely occurs after the initial infection. the scenario described here is not a way to get it back from a partner either.
many posts on the experts forums here also on this for more reading.
grace
many posts on the experts forums here also on this for more reading.
grace
actually you may get it back, it just depends on the strength of your immune system to protect the nerve endings at the secondary site. if the virus makes its way to a nerve ending before being stopped by your immune system then you get infected, if its stopped, you don't. This is not a perfect process. Not everyone is the same, some people after touching a sore at one site, can transfer it to another on their body, and infect the second side - known as auto-innoculation. you will find out in due course if you start feeling a sharp pin prick or inflammation at the secondary site. It also depends if your partner was shedding the virus actively at the time, as you also have your partners immune system to give you some protection.
HSV-2 is a mutation of the virus in which the DNA of the two viruses is about 50% the same (maybe less but I think I recall it being 50%).
yes you could've transmitted hsv1 to your partner if they didn't already have it.
no they won't give it back to you in the scenario you asked about.
grace
no they won't give it back to you in the scenario you asked about.
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.
