How were you tested, originally and now?
When you were diagnosed with type 2, did you have a culture that specifically says, "hsv2 isolated" or anything similar? I just want to be sure that a doctor didn't do a culture that wasn't typed, and since it's genital, they are calling it type 2 out of ignorance.
If you had a blood test done, make sure that was a type specific IgG blood test. If it was an IgM, ignore it completely - they are unreliable and often inaccurate. If it's an IgG, they aren't always type specific, and your results may say, "Herpes 1/2 positive" or have a number after it, and that means you are positive for type 1 OR type 2 OR both.
So let's assume for now that you have both types. If someone had type 1 orally and type 2 genitally, would you think they were doubly gross? If your best friend, sister, mother, brother, whoever, had both types, would you think they were doubly gross? Probably not.
And really - if someone thinks you're doubly gross, that isn't someone you need to be spending any time on. If someone thinks you're gross at all, that's not your person. Knowing that up front frees you to find the right person.
Herpes really is just herpes. There are different strains of it - hsv1 and hsv2 - and while each strain has it's preferences, you can get either orally or genitally (oral hsv2 is very rare, but it does happen).
Genital hsv2 does shed more and recur more frequently than ghsv1, so if you do have it, transmission chances are higher. You don't say what your gender is, or the gender of your sexual partners, but I can give you stats for that if you let me know those things.
But first, get copies of your lab results. You might have to sign a release for your doctor to give them to you, but you should always have copies for yourself. If you have a patient portal, if you can copy and paste them here, that's fine (just make sure to not include any identifying information).
If you don't have both, you'll want to make sure you don't have a secondary infection that is giving you a more severe outbreak than you usually have. For women, this could be bacterial vaginitis, a yeast infection, another STD like chlamydia, etc. For men, it could be NGU, a fungal infection, etc.
Let us know what your test results say, and we'll go from there.