Long story short: I've been dating a new
girlfriend for about 2 months. We've been
having unprotected sex (foolish i know).
Last week funny she developed some sort of
rash/infections. She had it immediately
checked out and she was diagnosed with
having HSV. The genital kind. Of course we
were concerned as this was her first ever
outbreak. I was convinced that I gave it
to her?! So I went for a test as well.
According to the doctors at the walk in
clinic I'm clean. I haven’t been showing
any physical signs of HSV either so I
wasn’t that surprised. I was a bit
disappointed with the test as the clinic
could give me an conclusive answer whether
I have the virus in my system or not. They
recommended that I have some kind of
expensive test done if I really wanna
know, but as far as physical signs go, I
don’t have it. (of course I had all the
other blood/urine test done as they seemed
more worried about testing me for HIV
etc.)
My girlfriend is recovering fine, but what
I would like to know is...
1.) Could I have passed on the virus
without showing any symptoms? (semen,
saliva, blood?)
2.) Should I try and get and conclusive
answer as I'm worried that I have the
virus and will pass it onto other?
3.) Once my girlfriends episode has
cleared up, should I be worried about
getting the virus from her? (assuming I
wasn’t the carrier in the first instant)
4.) If neither of us show any physical
signs of an outbreak can we have
unprotected sex without worrying of giving
the virus to each other? (no condom are a
preference of us both)
Thanks for you time
Johnny
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Rosie H
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Reply On Your Post Posted: 07-03-07 18:00pm
1.) could I have passed on the virus
without showing any symptoms? (semen,
saliva, blood?)
Yes you can. There are 90% of americans
who have HSV and do not show any signs or
symptoms. Some people do not have any
systoms and are just carriers for the
virus. Other do not have outbreaks until
6mon to a couple of year after infection.
2.) should I try and get and conclusive
answer as i'm worried that I have the
virus and will pass it onto other?
I would get all of the necessary tests
done, so you can know for sure. I tested
neg on a culture and later I tested pos
through a special kind of blood test.
3.) once my girlfriends episode has
cleared up, should I be worried about
getting the virus from her? (assuming I
wasn’t the carrier in the first instant)
She can pass it on at any time. 70% of
people got hepes from theor partners when
their partner had no signs or symptoms.
You can pass it at any time.
4.) if neither of us show any physical
signs of an outbreak can we have
unprotected sex without worrying of giving
the virus to each other? (no condom are a
preference of us both)
No not really, there is still the chance
of passing it on. My boyfriend and I had
unprotected sex for a whole year and he
never got it. But 14 months later he
tested positive. So its never a sure
thing.
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