Eye herpes through an eye nerve ?

[helkomy]

Does the eye herpes simplex spread inside the body through the eye nerve or it shall be spreaded by only only out skin to skin contact or as example by infected finger/ hand when touch eye ?
I ask this question because currently i have uncomfortable feeling in my eye and right now the dector didn't assured that i have herpes oe not ( as per my last query of title of : " herpes by femdom sex " )

Thanks

[adburger]

I’ve had the same pain since the late ‘80s. It was always a precursor to an outbreak. The pain was  terrible, sometimes my foot felt like it was getting hit with a hammer! Thank God Valtrex came along, it gets it under control quickly!

[GuitarRox]

Valtrex was a game changer!  I am glad that it helps keep things under control. Do you take it all the time or just when you feel an outbreak brewing?

[auntiejessi]

No, it's not spread through the body. Herpes infects nerve groups, and can only travel through the specific nerve group that is affected. For example, genital herpes will never travel through the body to the eye. You can autoinoculate (touching your eye with an infected finger), but you have antibodies (if your test is positive). Do you have your test results in hand? Like the actual lab report? Can you ask for a copy of it if you don't? Does it give the reference ranges on it, like what's positive, negative, etc?

Ocular herpes has pretty clear symptoms. You'd be at the doctor in no time if you had it.

[helkomy]

Thanks too much for your replay
Same concept can be applied also for mouth herpes ?
I.mean also if i got infection herpes in my mouse or throat and it share eyes in same nerve ,  will it cause  eye herpes because virus can travel in same nerve of eye ( which is same nerve for a mouse or throat ) .

Thanks

[auntiejessi]

It's possible for hsv1 to travel to the eye from the mouth. They share the same nerve group.

Herpes in the eye is not that common, statistically. The National Eye Institute (NEI) says an estimated 400,000 Americans have experienced some form of ocular herpes, with close to 50,000 new and recurring cases occurring each year. (https://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/ocular-herpes.htm) If you consider that millions and millions and millions - up to maybe 60-80% of US adults - have hsv1 orally, that's not that many.