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Could I have gotten HSV-1 genital herpes from this? Worried sick
My boyfriend currently has a cold sore and we were fooling around (not kissing) and he kept trying to finger me. I was pushing his hand/arm away and telling him to go wash his hands because I always see him touching his mouth/cold sore. He overpowered me and started fingering me. He then spit in his hand and used it as lube even though I told him no. Anyway... I am worried sick that I'm going to get HSV-1 genital herpes from this. I have gotten a cold sore before, I got my first one when I was 5 years old, so I know that I have the cold sore virus. It has been a few days and I now have a yeast infection, am itching really bad, and have a few small lacerations. I went to the gynecologist and she took a culture (haven't gotten the results back yet), but she said the lacerations didn't look like herpes, but even if he did give me genital HSV-1 herpes, I wouldn't know for probably a few weeks or when I have an outbreak. My stress level is through the roof. I am just absolutely sick that he did that knowing that he had a cold sore and when I was pushing him away and telling him no and to go wash his hands. Anyway... what is the probably that I will have HSV-1 genital herpes? The nurse practitioner at my gynecologist's office said there's a very high risk of getting it from being fingered if he had a cold sore and that she's even seen several people give themselves HSV-1 genital herpes because they had a cold sore and then touched their genitals.
Dave is correct. Infecting your genitals from touching your cold sore is a very rare event. Dave is also correct that the odds of you getting genital hsv1 when you have a long standing oral infection is as near zero as you can get. Put this out of your mind and move forward
Not true. Those that got the same hsv in both areas got it at the same time. These are the facts.
Hi if you already have oral hsv1 you cant get it in the genital as well as are now basicly immune and bottom line its not spread by what you describe anyway.
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My gynecologist said she has often seen people give themselves genital HSV-1 because they had a cold sore and touched themselves?
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Herpes spreads by oral, vaginal and anal sex.
Herpes sores blister, then burst, scab and heal.
STIs are the most common cause of genital sores.
Millions of people are diagnosed with STDs in the U.S. each year.
STDs can't be transmitted by casual contact, like hugging or touching.
Syphilis is an STD that is transmitted by oral, genital and anal sex.
