HSV-1

[imagine21]

Hello all, Imagine here, it's been a while since I posted! Anywho, I have a question. My current bf has OHSV-1 and I have GHSV-1. I have thoroughly researched HSV, ever since I was diagnosed last year, and ALL the research indicates that if one has the SAME type of HSV (we both have HSV-1) , regardless of location, the partners won't transmit it back and forth since they both have. Here's the issue, we've been intimate the past 2 weeks with protection, yet notifies me that he has severe groin pain/soreness and sores on the shaft of his penis, so what gives? Did I transmit my GHSV-1 to him genitally? I was tested for both HSV-1 and HSV-2 last year and only HSV-1 came up positive. So what gives? Any thoughts or advice?!

[JBnATL]

Perhaps he is allergic to the condoms you use.

What you have read is correct, it is almost impossible to give someone something they have already have in a different area. About the only time that would happen is in the first 6 months of that person acquiring the virus and their immune system had yet to control it.

Have him go get that area swabbed and tested to determine if it is hsv1

Good luck

JB

[oneday]

I would be extremely cautious with how you interpret that information. There are different strains of HSV 1 and HSV 2 within their own types. So if you both have different strains of Hsv 1, it's still possible to transmit that new strain (words from my GP). Also just because you have HSV 1 or HSV 2 in one place in your body does not protect you from getting it else where. It may slightly reduce risk, but antibodies aren't that strong at preventing infection 100%, they only limit it! (Personal experience!) I has hsv 1 oral 2 years before getting hsv 1 genital...and I got hsv 1 genital post sexual assault from someone who carried hsv 1 orally and was shedding!! Since then, break outs have been constant. I get hsv 1 under my arms, on my chest occasionally and on my back. So I am saying, be careful and don't think your body is fool proof to reinfection of this virus ELSWEWHERE just because you have it somewhere else. I am proof of that! I would be interested in what scientists studying hsv think of me, because I am sure it's not that common to get outbreaks in so many places, but I just got super unlucky. Take care

[Createss Galore]

...So if you both have different strains of Hsv 1, it's still possible to transmit that new strain (words from my GP). Also just because you have HSV 1 or HSV 2 in one place in your body does not protect you from getting it else where. It may slightly reduce risk...So I am saying, be careful and don't think your body is fool proof to reinfection of this virus ELSWEWHERE just because you have it somewhere else....

Good advice. Sorry to hear about your reinfection and increased OBs.

[bayern77]

So it is not safe to assume if your partner has hsv1 they are not immune to hsv1 at all?. So if have Ghsv1, and my partner has it oral ,does that mean they are still at risk for them to catch it genital? This is too confusing, I thought the chances were slim forthem to not catching it if both partners were positive for hsv1. There is a lot of misinformation from what I have been reading. This bums me out.

[WilsoInAus]

The misinformation is coming from people on this forum and not the experts. There is not one documented case of a male for example having an established oral HSV-1 infection subsequently becoming infected genitally.

Although there are different strains of HSV-1, this does not alter the fact that the same type is either impossible, or near impossible to be reinfected with.

If you ask doctors who actually treat multiple herpes clients daily they will tell you they have never seen a case. These are the facts.

[oneday]

Just because it isn't documented, doesn't mean there aren't people who had established hsv 1 oral infection then acquired hsv 1 genital. I am not a documented case! Does that mean that what's happened to me does not exist?? HSV isn't fully understood. Just because some research has said it's near impossible to be reinfected doesn't mean it is gospel. I am trying to say be careful with how you take this information. Because HSV can most definitely be reinfected in a new place in your body AFTER you already have it in one place. I can only caution you. What you choose to do with it is of course up to you. If you're careful and mindful of this, I am sure chances of reinfection are very low. I just assumed my body would be immune to it everywhere else since I had hsv 1 oral..but then I got hsv 1 genital and from that I have it under my arms, back and chest.

[WilsoInAus]

You have swabbed positive with a PCR for HSV-1 in all locations?

[Createss Galore]

Just because it isn't documented, doesn't mean there aren't people who had established hsv 1 oral infection then acquired hsv 1 genital...HSV isn't fully understood. Just because some research has said it's near impossible to be reinfected doesn't mean it is gospel...

Not long ago doctors were telling us that we would not infect someone as long as we abstained from sex and contact during a visible OB. That once it healed, or scabbed over, that it wasn't contagious, despite that some felt that they had passed it on, or had it passed on to them in the absence of an OB. Now we know about prodrome. There is less known about H than what is known, even if what is known is more than before. Doctors and scientists don't seem to be interested to expending time and money to study it enough to make a real difference in our lives. There are so many variables with this thing that the most accurate and up-to-date info is from the experiences of all of us, not from what doctors repeat.