can outbreaks re-locate?

[Guest Anonymous]

Hi. I used to have one big sore that came up on my butt check. Now I have vaginal outbreaks. The one on my butt check almost never comes up. My partner and I both had herpes when we met. I've heard you can't get someone else's strand once you have herpes. But, I never had these awful vaginal outbreaks before. Although I think I did have a mild outbreak there once or twice. My question is, does anyone know why it would stop occuring in one place and start in another, and can you get more than one strand?

[lovely79]

My doctor told me that if I ever had a boyfriend that had hsv type 2 (which I have) then I don't have to worry about using protection because we both would have the same strand. However, since I don't have it located on my mouth, I could get it if I performed oral sex on my mouth...or vice versus.

If someone has type 1 they can get type2 and type 2 can get type 1........ but if you both have the same type you shouldn't be passing it back and forth.

That's what my doctor told me.

Lovely

[Guest Anonymous]

So, if you & your partner both have the same strand and one preforms oral on the other during an outbreak,can you get an outbreak in your mouth? I really am unsure....

[MC37 Pilot]

one preforms oral on the other during an outbreak,can you get an outbreak in your mouth?

yes

[Guest Anonymous]

IGM<IGG???

Hey,

Lasmom, told me to ask you what these tests meant???

Thaks........jaysmom

[Lasmom]

Re: IGM<IGG???

Hey,

Lasmom, told me to ask you what these tests meant???

Thaks........jaysmom

JM - send him a message - "IM" button on the bottom of his post... then tell him the question again.

[Guest Anonymous]

can you be re-infected?/can outbreaks re-locate? YES!!!

CAUTION! YOU'VE BEEN MISINFORMED BY YOUR DOC!

Argh! I get really p.o.'d at doctors who cause more harm than good with their over-confident proclamations.

Lets' get this straight.

1. You can re-infect yourself. That's one explanation for why the sore on your butt migrated. You touched it and inadvertently touched your genitals and voila! You would have heightened, but not complete immunity to the precise strand of virus you carry. But obviously that immunity is not total, which is why you get outbreaks! This is even more apparent in those who get outbreaks when they're stressed. Stress=impaired immune system=less effective viral suppression.

2. You and your partner CAN and DO re-infect each other. All the time. Which is another way to get new outbreak sites. Lovely, no?

The reason that's the case, and the reason you can re-infect yourself, is that this is a virus. Virii mutate constantly. Think of the common cold virus, which is notoriously difficult to find a vaccine for, for that very reason. In fact, some strands of the virus become more vicious with each new transmission! So if you were the one who infected your partner, and say hypothetically she has a weaker immune system than you do as well, her virus will cause her a lot more discomfort, and if she transmits it back to you, you're going to get dosed with a more potent strand than what you had to begin with!

Hope that helped.

[Guest Anonymous]

Oops... almost forgot.

3. The virus can migrate along the nerve ganglii and appear in a new location. The virus lies dormant in the base of your spine and rises to the surface of your skin through the nerve endings. Nerves are like trees with an enormous amount of branches. That's why sometimes during a severe outbreak a person experiences neural pain along a certain path - the virus is passing along a nerve and has inflamed it and the surrounding area.

[Guest Anonymous]

stabbing pains?

Hi Ardent.

I'm the original poster. Yes, the doctors make a lot of uninformed statements. I'm just baffeled at how casual they have been with my health. Anyway, what you were saying about the inflammed nerves, could that cause a sharp, stabbing pain? I get these pains sometimes that come out of nowhere, and I literally yell. I haven't heard anyone else say they get these, but if they aren't from the Herpes, I hate to think what else could be causing them (and of coarse, the doctors couldn't care less!).

- Layla

[Guest Anonymous]

Re: stabbing pains?

Hi Ardent.

a sharp, stabbing pain? I get these pains sometimes that come out of nowhere, and I literally yell. I haven't heard anyone else say they get these, but if they aren't from the Herpes, I hate to think what else could be causing them (and of coarse, the doctors couldn't care less!).

- Layla

i was just recently healing from an outbreak and i got a couple of really sharp stabbing pains in the exact spot where my lesion had been. say about four a day maybe, but they only lasted a second each. i was really worried because i thought it might be another outbreak coming on immediately after the other one, but it seems to have been all part of the healing process. i've heard some stuff about post-herpetic neuralgia but i don't think that what i'm suffering from is severe enough to be termed as that... i wouldn't even really call it suffering given that it only affected me for four seconds a day! also, i don't think PHN affects genital herpes suffers usually, if at all, particularly not if, like me, they're young. but it may be worth while your looking into PHN if it's really bothering you.

[ardent]

re pains in affected area

Anyone ever had a pinched nerve in the neck or back? Needle-like shooting pains that seem to travel along a specific path? Well, in a smaller way, herpes affects your nerve endings similarly. I have the same pain you've experienced, every once in a while. Seems to correspond with the severity of the outbreak itself (that makes sense).

I could think of 2 reasons for serious pain:

1. Each persons's pain tolerance is different, biologically speaking. I have a fairly high pain threshold, so I don't call what I experience a "strong" pain. But someone else might.

2. It's something else. Very serious neuralgic pain is associated with herpes zoster (shingles), which typically affects one side of the body and is more likely to occur in people who had chickenpox than in people who had the chickenpox vaccine.

Good luck. Don't just take your docs' words for God's law. Take responsibility for learning as much as you can so you could ask your physician informed and penetrating questions. If you see your doc is lacking in sympathy or experience, switch without qualms!

[sad2bhere]

Yes, I get those shooting pains too, it's prodromal for me. In the groin or up the pelvis, awful sharp (short term) pain. I run for my acyclovir when those happen.

s2bh