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For the past six months I have had 2 incidents of a sore on my vagina. The initial sore hurt really bad and burned when I urinated. The second time, the sore came out on a differant side of my vaginal lips and was just itchy and tingly.

I have never had any type of symptoms of herpes and my husband and I have been together for 10 years. We've been married for 6. What is the likely hood that one of us had herpes prior to our marriage and that the herpes virus wouldn't break out until 10 years later.

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The doctors told me that the only way to know if you have it is by getting a test. He says that some people will never even know that they have it because some are lucky emough to not get a breakout.

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I'm pretty certain that I contracted hsv from my ex husband. That was 10 years ago and soon after we split I experienced weird itching but no ob like is often described.

2 years ago I experience my first ob and it was so painful I know I would have remembered something like it. So yes you can go years and not know you have it. It is also quite possible that you do have symptoms and simply have always chalked them up to something else.

An example is that I had back pain. Severe debilitating sciatica and I never had anyone suggest it could be from hsv but guess what - if I take antiviral medications the back pain is gone in several days. This kind of relief does not happen with pain killers only the antivirals and if it was a back injury it would not respond so quickly.

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I'm pretty certain that I contracted hsv from my ex husband. That was 10 years ago and soon after we split I experienced weird itching but no ob like is often described.

2 years ago I experience my first ob and it was so painful I know I would have remembered something like it. So yes you can go years and not know you have it. It is also quite possible that you do have symptoms and simply have always chalked them up to something else.

An example is that I had back pain. Severe debilitating sciatica and I never had anyone suggest it could be from hsv but guess what - if I take antiviral medications the back pain is gone in several days. This kind of relief does not happen with pain killers only the antivirals and if it was a back injury it would not respond so quickly.

Wow, this really sheds some light. As you know from my earlier post you responded to Caliope. Like you, I had no symtoms, that I knew of. I just recently about two months ago 3/07 had a pain in my back right lower back. Felt like a stabbing pain in my Kidney. Did not feel like a muscle pain, felt like and organ inside my body. Doctor's thought it was my kidney, i.e kidney stone and I took Darvocet and Soma and was still in severe pain, even went to the hospital and was given IV with pain medication. I was given a Cat Scan and they found a few small Kidney Stones. So I drank a lot of water and had a full recovery, no more pain. HSV was never even discussed or suggested or asked about.

Then recently, I have been feeling great, thinking all is fine now. Went for a follow up with my regular doctor, who is big on doing blood tests with physicals. For example, He has tested me for all kinds of stuff in the past 5yrs, like Hepatitis, and liver function levels, blah blah blah. Even though it is really stressful to be tested for these serious things and then waiting out the results, I have just gone with it. So, I really didn't think much of his suggestion to get the HSV blood test, which I had never been blood tested for. I was almost positive it would show HSV-1, but like I said I had no idea I had HSV-2. So now that back pain is really suspect...

P.S. Caliaope What is "Severe debilitating sciatica"?????

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my advice is to google sciatica.

the sciatic nerve is in your lower back and when that nerve gets irritated they call it sciatica. it runs from your lower back and down your legs and the pain can be quite severe.

when the sciatica is acting up it hurts to sit, stand and lie down. with each step in the early morning it is like electric knives through my back and out through my toes.

in ghsv infections it is well known that the virus resides in the lumbrosacral ganglia and the sciatic nerve is included in this highway of nerves and since it is a larger nerve if it becomes affected it can be very painful.

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