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I know no one can know until he gets tested, but I was just wondering if anyone could tell me the likelihood that my partner may have HSV.

I just found out this week that I am GHSV2 positive and suspect I had my first OB August 2017, because I got 1 small sore while I had a yeast infection, I didn't think anything of it and wasn't in the country to go to my doctor about it then. I just had my suspected 2nd outbreak over a week ago which was when I got tested. I told my partner and he is getting tested this weekend. However, we have been having unprotected sex in that time frame. While I haven't had an OB, at least not that I know of, in that time what is the chances of him being infected too? And would the risk increase if we had unprotected sex when my most recent OB wasn't completely healed? 

If anyone could also tell me the chances of me transferring my GHSV2 to my mouth by giving my partner oral after we had unprotected sex?

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Hi, so there are some published studies about transmission rates in various scenarios (I.e; condom, no condom, meds, etc..) but not sure how helpful they'll really be. I say that as clearly your partner will have been at risk of acquiring HSV from you, especially as no condom was used AND you still had a sore - so it's binary in that he'll either now have HSV or he won't, BUT the chances he got it couldn't really be higher..

As for the oral transmission. If he didn't get genital HSV from the sex than there is NO risk of you getting oral HSV by sucking on his Twinkie. Even if he did get genital HSV from you, the risk of you getting oral HSV from performing oral sex is extremely low, but not impossible. Basically, you have HSV-2 and so have the antibodies that should be able to prevent a new infection in a new location such as the mouth. Oral HSV-2 is also supposed to be very rare as it loves cock n' pussy alot more than the mouth. So, even if you got HSV-2 orally it would likely be bored AF and not do a whole lot as it's not the location it likes to play in - can't blame it really. ;)

 

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Thank you so much for your reply @K_Sock!

So the risk is higher because we had unprotected sex for such a long period of time without knowing I was infected, but there is still the chance he didn't get infected? At least there is that hope.

I am more concerned with the most recent exposure due to there being the sore, but hopefully his doctor will be able to tell him when to get tested, what test and if he might need to get retested in the future. 

As for the oral HSV2, that's good to hear. I wasn't really too concerned cause I've never shown any symptoms on my face, but again after the other night the thought popped into my head if that was a way for me to infect a different part of my body. 

I'm still worried for him but that won't pass until we get the test results back. Part of me is more ok if he does have it cause then there'd be less precautions we'd have to take if he wanted to continue a sexual relationship with me. But I know in my heart I don't want him to just cause I know he wouldn't be ok with it. 

Thank you so much again! 

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