I want to know how is this possible, and if i pass it does it say as oral or become genital herpes ( simplex 2) if i pass it.? i have only had 2 out breaks. i dont even really know if that what i have or not. i had one doc tell me i did and another tell me i didnt. I am also talking to a guy, we are not sexual but he get cold sores. So isnt that pretty much the same thing.? but he just decided to be friends cause he would feel weird being sexual with me.? How should i take that? please help me. he has the same thing right.? the same virus. whats wrong? i dont understand. :( When you say you have 'oral' herpes on your genitals, what I am going to assume is that you have been diagnosed with genital herpes type 1 (hsv-1) - this is the virus that usually causes oral herpes but it can also cause genital herpes.
Some of the other posters are right, if it is genital, it doesn't matter if it is the virus that usually causes oral hepres, if it is on your genitals it becomes genital herpes - however the type of the virus does not change - you can have type 1 herpes on your genitals, normally caught through receiving oral sex or transmitted from your own mouth - I have genital herpes type 1 from recieiving oral sex from a partner with cold sores.
If you pass your genital hsv-1 to someone else's genitals, it is still hsv-1 but it is genital herpes not oral. If you pass your hsv-1 to someone's mouth, it is still type 1 just oral herpes.
Normally if you already have an oral herpes (hsv-1) infection on your mouth, you are very unlikely to get hsv-1 on your genitals - you will carry antibodies that protect you from getting the exact same virus in a different location - it can happen - but only normally under certain circumstances. When it happens, it is normally because your genitals have come into contact with an open cold sore on someone's mouth and this has overwhelmed your immune response to the virus, or you got the same virus genitally at the same time as or within about 3 months of you catching hsv-1 orally - it is even possible that you transferred it there yourself when you first caught it orally, by touching your mouth and touching your genitals straight away, it can happen. So it is unlikely that your man friend would catch it from you, but there is a tiny possibility.
There is no way of avoiding the fact that whichever of the two viruses it is, it is still genital herpes rather than oral if it is on your genitals, which does make some people feel a bit weird.
If you ONLY have type 1, and he has type 1 orally, it is unlikely that he will catch it off you - he already has antibodies that protect him from doing so. And, yes, he only has the same thing, just in a different place - but what this means is that his oral infection is five times more infectious than your genital infection (hsv-1 prefers to be on the mouth).
My boyfriend gets cold sores, I have hsv-1 on my genitals, we don't worry about it - we have unprotected sex, and he is extremely unlikely to catch it off me. We've even had sex by accident when I haven't realised I'm having a full blown outbreak without him catching it - although of course that is not to be recommemded.
Unfortunately it seems to be little good telling most people that genital hsv-1 and cold sores are just the same. Look up cold sores on yahoo answers and you will find lots of answers saying not to worry, it is 'just a cold sores' and not a big deal, that you don't need to tell people you get them and you can do anything you want when you don;t have a visible one, but look up genital hsv-1 and the attitude is completely different. People advise others to dump partners who have genital hsv-1, say that they are dirty and would never go near them, and of course you suddenly develop a moral obligation to tell which somehow never applies to those who have it on their mouth.
I recently told a friend who I nearly got involved with, and no matter how I explained to him that it was just the same as cold sores, he still said that although he would have accepted it in a long term relationship, if it was anything else he would have run and he would have to think about it carefully. He also kept on asking me if I would have told him before we did anything sexual - it seemed to really bother him. And yet I once told him I got cold sores and he didn't bat an eyelid then. There is a complete double standard.
It is all to do with the stigma of having herpes on your genitals rather than on your mouth. Tell him to research 'cold sores' and hsv-1 on the internet, and then look up genital hsv-1. He might understand then, but then he might just not be able to get over the fact that yours is on your genitals, where people seem to assume it is somehow different. Most people with cold sores are in complete denial that they have herpes, or they assume it is worse if it is on your genitals, which of course it isn't. Excuse me for being bitter. I have decided from now on that I will just tell any men I like that I have cold sores on my mouth not my genitals. Hi. firstly i think what needs to be pointed out is that genital herpes is not a venereal disease it is simply a skin condition, with no future health implications. it is not black and white though it can vary from person to person. Also as it is something that can lay dormant for years it can come from anywhere, it is even possible to pass herpes 1 from our own lips to our own genitals.Type 1 and 2 can be present both orally and genitals. at the end of the day, people with cold sores don't worry about weather they'll never kiss anyone again, why should it be any different for genital herpes. he has the problem...not you You don't have oral herpes on your genitals, you have genital herpes. It's a similar virus but it IS different. You can pass on genital herpes and should always have your partner wear protection so he doesn't get it. There are medications for it. You don't have to have a break out to spread it. Please be careful and you might like to do some more research on these viruses. I wish you the best of luck! Sorry -- the first two posters had me confused about what they are saying.
I am also a bit confused about your question and back ground info.
So here goes some basic info: There are many different types of Herpes virus -- the two that you are referring to are I and II. While I is most commonly found in oral herpes (cold sore, fever blister), II is most commonly found in the genital region. The division between the two is purely a academic distinction - it doesn't matter the type of virus you have, they are all the same family. Usually, the people with the oral virus, get it from non-sexual contact; the genital virus is considered a sexually transmitted disease.
The virus is spread by skin to skin contact of someone who is shedding the virus and it comes in contact with a break in the skin. The virus lives on a nerve and can at time become reactivated causing grouped vesicles. Symptoms vary although most have the grouped vesicles, burning or painful sensation, ultimately the vesicles crust over and the episode is over. Recurrent episodes are always located at the same site of the initial infection.
So in regards to your questions,it sounds like you have virus outbreaks both on your mouth and your genitals. Is that true? It sounds as if it is questionable - where were the two outbreaks?
Even if someone has a cold sore, they are not going to want to get genital herpes. If that is what you have, then you are going to have to inform all future partners about it. For people with genital herpes, there are medications that can help manage outbreaks - you can either taken them during an outbreak or take them all the time to prevent outbreaks; even with these medications it is still possible to pass the disease.
If you just get oral outbreaks - you don't have genital herpes and I wouldn't worry about the type (I or II). If he has cold sores on his mouth he has simplex1, also how did you get it "downstairs"? If it was from him then that would make sense. But just so you know you CAN get "oral herpes" on your genitals. You just can't get genital herpes on your mouth. it only works if they have simplex1 on there genitals trust me its confusing I would look at this site for more info :
http://herpes-coldsores.com/ |
