Hello to all people who have herpes. I know how that feels. I think there aren't sufficient supliments in the world for my worries.
I will tell you my story.
About three years ago, during intercourse with my partner, my skin at the entrance of the vagina cracked a bit.
After a week or so, I started experiecing the worst symptoms of my life. I was red and full of open ulcers in my vaginal area. After consulting three different doctors and none of them confirming the herpes diagnosis (they only said it could be herpes, but they were not sure), I was prescribed aciclovir by a dermathologist and o local cream, which was made in farmacy. After another week, I started to heal but my skin remained sensitive in that area.
I think I needed three years to fully recover my skin's elasticity. During this entire time, I haven't experienced another outbreak.
Last week, I noticed an ulceration on my mouth (my lower lip). It started to hurt very badly and next day I saw another round ulceration on my upper lip.
The problem is that yesterday I found two different ulcerations in my vaginal area, and I am very confused.
I know that you can have both hsv1 and 2, but wasn't my supposed hsv2 offer some imunity at contracting hsv1?
My question is: Can I have both hsv1 and 2 in my genital area? The lesion I have now downstairs appeared in a new place, in a place that three years ago I did not have ulcers? I am very confused. I thought that if i really have hsv 2, I would be somehow protected by getting hsv1.
But the coincidence of having blisters on my gen-tal area, a few days after having sores on my mouth is too big.
I have to mention, that I never before had blisters on my mouth, until last week.
Could I have had contracted three years ago hsv1 genitally, that being the reason why I didn't experience frequent outbreaks?
My current partener does not have hsv, at leat he never experienced symptoms. The only problem is that we kissed when I had sores on my mouth, and after kissing he gave me oral sex. Is it possible that he was the "carrier" of my mouth hsv 1 to my genital area?
But if I already had hsv2, how could I have contracted hsv1 genitally? It doesn't make any sense to have both virus strains in the same area.
I will go and have the antibody tests, but I know that you have to wait a few weeks after an outbreak.
Please, can someone enlight me? I don't know what to believe anymore. I know that with genital hsv2, the first year is the one when you experience the most outbreaks, but in my case, I haven't had a blister in three years. And now, after I never had a cold sore on my mouth, I wake up with 2 of them on my lips, and 3 days after that I develop 2 sores in my genital area.
Can someone explain it to me, because all my reading seems to not help me.