Do you really need to worrie about spreading Herpes thru Shedding,?

Question

I have had Herpes for 16 years, and i am just now finding out about it, I read somewhere that it is not possible.

Answer 1

I don't know if this helps. It IS confusing to figure out how it might happen that you would be exposed 16 years ago and just now have an outbreak. That doesn't seem possible. However, it is possible to be infected 16 years ago and never have had a primary or recurrent outbreak.

What Happens

You can become infected with genital herpes when the herpes simplex virus (HSV) enters the body through sexual or other direct contact with herpes sores. HSV infections cannot be cured. Once you are infected with HSV, the virus remains in your body for the rest of your life. Many people do not develop symptoms and thus are unaware that they have the virus.

First-time (primary) outbreak

The incubation period—the time from exposure to genital herpes until the primary outbreak of infection—is 2 to 14 days. The entire body may be affected, causing you to feel as though you have the flu. Blisters appear around the genitals or anus or in the area where the virus entered the body. The blisters break within a few days and become painful, oozing sores. The sores usually heal within 3 weeks (without treatment) and do not leave scars. Sores that occur in women usually take longer to heal than sores that occur in men.

Recurrent outbreak

After the primary outbreak, the herpes simplex virus remains in the nerve cells below the skin in the area where the sores first appeared. The virus stays in the nerve cells but becomes dormant, causing no symptoms. In most people, the virus becomes active from time to time, traveling from the nerve cells to the skin and causing repeated blisters and sores (recurrent outbreaks).

Sores from recurrent outbreaks usually heal faster and are less painful than those from the primary outbreak. People report that certain factors such as stress, illness, new sex partners, or menstruation may trigger recurrent outbreaks.

About half of the people who have recurrent outbreaks of genital herpes feel an outbreak coming a few hours to a couple of days before it happens. They may feel tingling, burning, itching, numbness, tenderness, or pain where the blisters are going to appear. This is called the prodrome.

People who have symptoms average five outbreaks per year during the first few years. Most have fewer outbreaks after that. The pattern of recurrent outbreaks—how often genital herpes infections return and how long outbreaks last—varies greatly. Some people have many outbreaks each year while others have only a few or none at all.

Genital herpes infections caused by HSV-1 recur less frequently than those caused by HSV-2.

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Herpes is spread through skin-to-skin contact. The virus dies very quickly away from the human body and is NOT spread (or at least very very very rarely) through towels (unless you are both using the same towel at the same time) or toilet seats or whatever. I would strongly recommend that you get these bumps looked at while you still have them. Herpes is MUCH more reliably diagnosed with a swab test (do not settle for a visual diagnosis) than with a blood test, and it would be very good for you to know what you are dealing with here. As to how you got it, it may be from recieving oral sex. Most adults (50% to 80%) have oral herpes, and can spread it to genitals through oral sex. Herpes can be symptomless for a long time, and then show up out of no where with a mysterious outbreak. Right now, figure out whether or not it is herpes. You can worry later about how you got it. Good question.

Answer 6

Of course you can spread it thru shedding. If you have been out there having sex for 16 years with out knowing it I am guessing shedding is the least of your worries. You are contagious for at least 24 hours BEFORE you feel it coming on and are contagious until the last possible indication it was ever there is gone. Then there are all the days it sheds just becasue that is what it does..You and Everyone else that has herpes either 1 or 2..You all shed the virus.

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

absofreakinglutely !!!! You can spread it while shedding. You can't see the shedding so you'll never know if you are or aren't and if you are then you can spread it. Even using condoms may not prevent you from spreading it either if the area that had the lesion is not covered by the condom.

Answer 9

Did i answer one of your questions before? Yes!! It is true!! Herpes is always contagious; because of "viral shedding"! Ask your DR. about this ! It is true! My Dr. told me...and said lots of people don't know this...or simply deny it! It is a common misconception that herpes is only contagious when you are having a breakout...IT IS NOT TRUE! IT IS ALWAYS CONTAGIOUS!!!!!

Answer 10

It depends. If the sore itself is shedding, then it is possible. Herpes infects the skin and can lay dormant for months, or even years, before you get your first outbreak.