my mom took me to the dr.thinking i had (uti)urinary tract infection.they said no it was my apendicts.they took blood work and not that, so they sent me to another dr. and they said i have herpes but i never had sex with anyone thats including oral sex to. i'm a virgin all the way around ,they said i caught it from a cold sore ...is that possible ?????? i just dont understand how i can have a std when i did nothing at all. please help me understand what is happening to me.
2007-01-23 12:31:01 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
A restaurant once closed down cause a regular customer contacted oral herpes.
Apparently a perverted employee (who had herpes) jerked off and didn't was his hands... then handled food.
yeah!.... eeeeeeeewwwww!
But, one can get herpes from a cold sore though.
2007-01-23 12:35:13 · answer #1 · answered by venom! 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-08-11 12:48:06 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your dr is right...you could have gotten it from a cold sore. Maybe it would help you not to think of it as a sexually transmitted disease since obviously you are not sexually. If you did get it from a cold sore then you have HSV 1 which is pretty much cold sores...but you can get those on your genitals or your mouth...just like you can get the genital herpes in your mouth as well as on your genitals. So if you got it from a cold sore it is HSV 1 and I wouldn't look at it as a sexually transmitted disease...just I guess bad luck. I don't know...maybe to be totally sure maybe go to one more dr...I wouldn't want to be diagnosed with something that you don't truly have...if the first dr didnt' know that it was herpes and sent you to another one...whats to say that this dr does know what it is...so maybe try one more dr to make sure.
2007-01-25 12:27:23 · answer #3 · answered by Crystal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Herpes is a virus that encodes itself inot a person's DNA. It can be transmitted by all body fluids, so if you touched a bleeding person with herpes or treated someones sores and they had herpes, etc, it could be transmitted to you.
It is not, however, airborn. You cannot get it sneezes, coughs, ro any of that. If you kissed a person with an open herpes cold sore, then you could get it.
2007-01-23 12:35:48 · answer #4 · answered by John 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can touch your lip that has a cold sore and then touch your genitals and spread it that way. You probably have herpes type 1 on your genitals. Herpes type 2 is generally the genital type. But there's not much difference, symptoms are same. You can have type 1 or type 2 in both places. Both can be sexually transmitted.
2007-01-23 12:36:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-16 00:28:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did they tell you it was an STD? If that's the case you should have asked the doctor how that is possible since your still a virgin. Have you ever had a cold sore? I would not have walked out of the office without some definite answers.
2007-01-23 14:11:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure your doctor is right - cold sores are a variant of the herpes virus. If you touched the cold sore and then your genital area you could tranfer the herpes virus from one area to another.
2007-01-23 12:34:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Herpes is contracted through direct skin contact (not necessarily in the genital area) with an infected person, and less frequently by indirect contact (for instance, by sharing lip balm or a virus infested shared towel). The virus travels through tiny breaks in the skin (or mucous membranes in the mouth and genital areas), so, healthy skin and mucous membranes are normally an effective barrier to infection. However, in the case of mucous membranes, even microscopic abrasions are sufficient to expose the nerve endings into which the virus splices itself. This is why most herpes transmission happens in mucous membranes, or in areas of the body where mucous membranes and normal skin merge (e.g., the corners of the mouth).
2007-01-23 12:35:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is possible! Herpes can be spread by a cold sore or by sharing towels, lip balm. It is possible. Look at this page for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes
2007-01-23 12:41:26 · answer #10 · answered by Scott 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋