We always recommend discussing your genital hsv1 infection with a partner. it's just the "nice" thing to do and most partners will be far more respectful of you talking about it before sex than they will be if you bring it up after you've been intimate. It's also a good way to bring up the whole std topic - talk about what you know you have, when you were last tested for std's and then hopefully they'll open about about it all about themselves too. Also since you can still contract hsv2 genitally, you want to be talking about herpes with a partner anyways. Hard to do it and avoid talking about your own hsv1 infection.
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this really could happen to anyone how likely is genital transmission. am i morally obligated to tell others cause i dont think that i should have to people with hsv- oral are the ones who spread it to the genitals anyway is the chance big enough to let people know and freak them out or is the chance good they wouldnt even get it if your not having an outbreak
all the stuff that dr. hhh said. well...so hsv1 genital is pretty much the same thing as hsv-1 oral correct, except that oral is more infectious they say that hsv-1 genital is almost not infectious at all now with that said do can't i just forget about it and date regular as long as im not haveing an outbreak i mean i undersatnd if i have a sore i wouldn't. Should i just treat it like oral cold sores and not stress off of it... its really confusing when you read so much different things some people say forget about it it;s not something that you should worry about to much where others make this big deal out of it which is just because of stigma. Should it be approched the same way?
I'm really not sure what you are asking. could you be more specific please?
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