Girlfriend Has Genital HSV-1 STD

Hi i'm to this as well I found out last year when my boyfriend had his first out break & didn't hidden iti'm from me a & told me I should go get check. I did & that's when I found out I also had HSV-2 but the doctor say he had

1 & 2 Beings that we have been together at that time making it 19 years & we really don't know who gave it to

who. Neither of us know we had it until his 1st out break & he didn't hide it we choose to work it out. I learning as well as you & just as confused but the best advice that i see & for myself speaking only as a female have

Only had to outbreaks the first major one which was the worst. & this year which was not so bad but for me i

Will not have sex with him while having an outbreak for me 1-it's just nasty I feel sexy & enjoy him when I'm

having an outbreak. & 2 it's just simply painful. 3 i'm afraid i'll cause him to have an outbreak. He's not happy with having to wait but he's patient. He's outbreak was nothing like mine. But still personally I won't I would

Wait until she clears up. I'm sure if there is a big difference between HSV-1 & HSV-2. Because as I said I'm

new to this as well. But places to come to and ask questions truly does help me cope. I wait until i'm clear but

that's just me. I don't know if that helped but could only speak of what i've experienced & what I do. I wish you

both well. .

I think that if you already have HSV-1 there isn't anything to worry about it gives you some type of immunity to it genitally?...

I wouldn't worry. Just don't have sex if you have sores.

Ignore most of the stuff you find online.

This website has been the most informative and supportive place I've found online. It provides you with statistics around risk, personal experiences and straight, trustworthy facts about the virus. HSV, whether it's type 1 or 2, isn't the end of the world. I can't give you much information personally, because when I was looking at the site I was focused on HSV2, but I can say that HSV1 tends to be milder and less frequent, and while it can affect the genital area if the genitals were exposed to a cold sore on someone else, it typically makes it's visits around the mouth. My mum has HSV1. She won't kiss my dad or get to close to my little brothers when she has a cold sore, because they are contagious when they appear on the skin, but she's had a full, healthy relationship with my dad for...20 something years now and he's never caught it. So basically, a good rule of thumb is to just avoid direct contact with the area where she gets the sores while she has an outbreak. Most people can feel when they're about to get one, and she seems to be being quite open about it so I'm sure she'll let you know when it's not a good time to kiss her or for her to go down on you.

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I have recently been diagnosed with herpes simplex virus one on my genitals. My boyfriend always had cold sores on his lips and now he has it on genitals too. Your body doesn't just fight it off. You can get it in both oral and genitals. He performed oral sex on me and gave me the virus, we had intercourse so I gave it right back. Its effected me worse as I am a girl. Either way you should both be taking medications for oral herpes. My boyfriend had no sore present, there is a such thing as "shedding" the virus.

Hi. I recently went to the doctor and tested positive for herpes.. However, she said that my antibody count was so high that she couldn't tell if I had simplex one or two so I have to wait until I had an outbreak so she could swab it. I know simplex one is like cold sores but what would it look like on my vagina? Would it cause a blister just like simplex two?

I know this post is a year ago but did you get any feedback on transmission rate .? AS I was recently diagnosed with hsv 1 genital , my fiance passed it to me to my genital through oral sex. He contracted the virus when he was a little boy . So can I pass it back to him but In the genital area if he JUST havr the hsv1 virus on the mouth if we have unprotected sex.?As we never used a condom before I got the virus. Or he is immune to it and cannot get it there ? And vice versa .please I need to put this in perspective I need answers . The doctors are not giving me definite answers .

You already have it you can't catch it again

I do not have any form of oral or genital herpres, but I have recently entered a relationship with a girl that has genital HSV-1. She has been honest with me about it from the beginning. This is my first relationship with someone that has any variation of this infection (that I know of), so I admittedly am not well informed about it, but am making a serious effort to educate myself about it. I want to be able to support her and also understand the risks that I am now vulnerable to. Unfortunately, we have refrained from genital sexual activity thus far, mostly because I wanted to get a better understanding of our situation and the best ways to proceed. Other than avoiding sex during an outbreak, or all together, and always using a latex condom during non-outbreak episodes, are there other options or things that we should know or consider to help reduce the risk of contraction on my end? Our relationship has promise, I would like to see where it goes and me better understanding this will go a long way towards helping with that. Is it possible to maintain a longterm relationship with someone infected without contracting it myself or is it a gaurantee that over time I will most likely contract it the more times we are sexually active? I don't mean to be selfish or insensitive, but I don't want to contract this. I suppose I am trying to gain a better understanding on the reality of the virus and how to responsibly interact with it and her. We don't have any support groups where we live and have discussed going to a doctor together to see if they might have more information for how to proceed as a couple. Any insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 

I get cold sores every once in a while. But my girlfriend (lesbian) says I gave her hsv2. I have never had genital herpies. And I didn't think you could contact hsv2 from a cold sore. Now I'm thinking that the father of her child has been cheating and gave it to her. I'm am waiting on blood work. Just need to understand how I could have given her hsv2