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is this hsv 2
In my mouth - right side opposite from my gums is a white spot- no pain, just a white spot had it for about a month - my doctor thought it was probably hsv1 and told me to use 1/2water and 1/2 hydrogen peroxide mixture to clear it up - while it is better it is not completely healed - saw the doctor today and i took blood for hsv 1 and 2. he said he was 99% sure it wasn't 2 but was checking since he was doing the test for hsv 1. Now I am freaking . He put me on levaquin for 5 days at 500mg. Should I be concerned.
Thanks for your help - it is appreciated.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Most canker sores are painful. So are almost all herpes lesions -- even more than canker sores. Sounds like you probably had something else entirely, neither herpes nor a canker sore. I won't even try to guess at other possibilities. This isn't an STD problem, so I won't have more to say.
canker sore with no pain?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Further information: A single sore inside the mouth is unlikely to be herpes at all. More likely a canker sore.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Starting with the title you chose for your question ("Is this HSV-2?") plus the first 3 words of the question itself ("In my mouth"), the answer is almost certainly no. HSV-2 of the mouth is rare.
Now I have read the rest. The symptoms of HSV and the appearance of HSV sores are identical, whether due to HSV-1 or HSV-2. It seems your doctor is pretty sure you have HSV. But because it is the mouth, it is extremely unlikely that HSV-2 is the cause. Not only is oral HSV-2 rare, when it happens it almost always is in association with a simultaneous first infection with genital HSV-2. Since you have had no symptoms of genital herpes, your oral herpes surely is HSV-1.
I don't understand the treatment with levofloxacin (Levaquin). That drug is totally ineffective against HSV. Your doctor must have thought you also had some other sort of infection; or you got the drug wrong (maybe it was really acyclovir, valacylclovir [Valtrex], or famciclovor [Famvir]?); or your doctor doesn't understand herpes after all.
Regards-- HHH, MD
Now I have read the rest. The symptoms of HSV and the appearance of HSV sores are identical, whether due to HSV-1 or HSV-2. It seems your doctor is pretty sure you have HSV. But because it is the mouth, it is extremely unlikely that HSV-2 is the cause. Not only is oral HSV-2 rare, when it happens it almost always is in association with a simultaneous first infection with genital HSV-2. Since you have had no symptoms of genital herpes, your oral herpes surely is HSV-1.
I don't understand the treatment with levofloxacin (Levaquin). That drug is totally ineffective against HSV. Your doctor must have thought you also had some other sort of infection; or you got the drug wrong (maybe it was really acyclovir, valacylclovir [Valtrex], or famciclovor [Famvir]?); or your doctor doesn't understand herpes after all.
Regards-- HHH, MD
it is the upper right side of the mouth
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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.
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STDs can't be transmitted by casual contact, like hugging or touching.
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