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drea44274
drea44274

Hello. I lost my virginity to and have been having sex with 1 man for the past like 2 years. I've only ever gotten yeast infections and BV twice before but about a month ago I had a herpes outbreak and got a small cold sore on my lip. The "lessions" didn't look like a lot of pictures I looked up and I searched for hours, trust me.. but then after like 5 days they looked more like what I was afraid of so I decided to go to planned parenthood. They didn't tell me straight that I had herpes, but I already knew at that point. So I took the antibiotics they gave me for 5 days and it healed up and I got a lot better. But now I believe it's resurfacing and I started thinking.. if I've been having sex with this one person for almost or alittle over 2 years.. why haven't I gotten this sooner?? Why now? I think I'm being a bit paranoid because we haven't been on the best of terms recently but idk.. It all seems weird to me how I never contracted it for this long. What do you guys think? Can it take this long to contract it?

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  • drea44274
    drea44274

    Posted

    I forgot to mention.. he wasn't aware he had it, he's never had symptoms or anything. His mom is the same way because she also has it and hasn't had symptoms or anything for a lot of years.

  • FelizCastus
    FelizCastus drea44274

    Posted

    Yes, herpes is like Russian roulette, but with much better odds. It can take months or years to get from a partner, sometimes never, and sometimes after just one time.
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