Herpes Type One & Two?

Question

My ex girlfriend of 3 months found out about 3 weeks ago that she has Herpes Type2. I went down just the other day & got tested & I have type1.
If I tell her, I am afraid that she will blame herself for giving it to me. That is the way she is. Then too, will she wonder if she got it from me. We no longer go together, but we are friends.
Question number two---Should I contact my last ex that I was with for 3 years & tell her to go get tested. I have only been with these two women in 12 years. The previous one that I was with for 3 years had several people that were in to drugs & drinking who she had been in a relationship with for a few years. I am wondering if I contacted it from her. This recent relationship was with a very decent girl who just got out of a 12 years relationship & was only with 3 people in her life time. Those two questions I need answers to. I was told by my doctors nurse that a person with Type one can give it to a person that will have type two.

Answer 1

Yes, contact your Ex-GF and tell her to get tested. If she doesn't have it then you got it from your most recent GF. Type one and type two can EASILY be transfered back and forth.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

Yes, there isn't any. Herpes is caused by a virus. Actually, there is little cure for viruses nowadays. The only thing that you can generally do in the case of a viral infection is strengthen the immune system and hope it fights it off. Not with Herpes, the immune system can't win against it. Thus you only get to treat the symptoms. Once you're infected, it stays with you for life. So don't get infected.

Personal experience. I have had genital herpes for over 5 years.

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Answer 5

If you have type 1 only, and she has type 2, there is absolutely no way you infected her. Your doctor was WRONG.

Type 1 and type 2 are two different viruses. If you have type 1, you are only like 8 out of 10 of the rest of the populaiton that have it. It is the norm to be infected with type 1 - it normally means that you have oral herpes aka cold sores, even if you do not get symptoms. It is a lot rarer to have it genitally.

If she has type 2, she ocntracted it from someone else that has type 2, not type 1. This could have been anyone in her past, although was much more likely to have been in the week preceding her outbreak, if she has just had a primary outbreak, normally about 2-4 days before. Sometimes in women though genital herpes can go undiagnosed for years, believed to be a yeast infection or something similar. As you did not specify, it is also possible that she has been diagnosed without symptoms though a blood test. If this is the case, it really could have been caught at any time - but not from you. Even if she has had a clear screen in the past, it is no guarantee that she did not have hepres at the time - they don't test for it normally unless it is suspected.

Type 1 (oral herpes) can cause genital herpes in a partner, spread to the genitals through the practice of oral sex, but if so it causes genital herpes type 1 NOT genital herpes type 2. One CANNOT cause the other. I should know, I have genital herpes type 1 caused by my boyfriend with cold sores giving me oral sex.

One other thing - is she positive she actually has type 2? Many people make the assumption that if they have genital herpes it is type 2 and if they have oral herpes it is type 1. Howver, half of all genital hepres cases, like mine, are caused by type 1. If she has never had cold sores orally and has been given oral sex in the past, she could have caught herpes type 1 this way genitally. But this is only if she has not specifically been told what type it is by the doctor, just told it is genital herpes - if she was given a type soecific test and it was type 2 it is more likely she caught it from intercourse, but again not through you.

I think it highly likely that you only have oral cold sores, which most people catch from a kiss froma family member when they are just children, and is nothing to worry about, it is so common.

Just because she has only been with three men, doesn't mean anything. One in five men actually has type 2 genital herpes, and one in four women have it. Up to 80% of them do not realise they are infected for years, or ever, due to lack of symptoms. It is most common to catch herpes from a steady relationship - people with herpes are not infecitous alll the time so the risk increases over time and with more sex. Whether she has had three partners or three hundred has little to do with it. She has probably just been unlucky. She could have had it before you met her, and just not realised because she hasn't had the correct test.

I don't think you need to worry about telling anyone, or feel guilty. If she really has type 2, you are not the one who gave it to her. And if you only have type 1, she hasn't given it to you.

Answer 6

Both types of herpes are highly contagious. There is no way of telling who gave it to who because you could have passed it to her during oral and you could have caught it from her during oral.....unless you were tested before you became sexually active with her and the test was clean. Absolutely, contact every woman that you have has sexual encounters with, even oral. Don't point fingers, just support each-other through this.