Cleveland Clinic says:

"Oral herpes is a viral infection, and the herpes simplex virus (HSV) is the specific virus responsible. There are two types of HSV (HSV-1 and HSV-2). Both types can cause oral herpes, but HSV-1 causes most cases."

A doctor I know also said this. Of course, it is well known that many children test positive for HSV 1, but smaller number of children test positive for HSV-2, which sometimes is transmitted the ways HSV -1 is transmitted (not necessarily through sex).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Examine the your last STI test report. Do you see an HSV test result? You won't, because standard panels don't include it.

A dare to those of you who think you don't have it: tell your doctor you specifically want an HSV test. You have nothing to fear, right?

I get tested every time I have my check-up and specifically ask for the HSV 1 & 2 tests. I don't have either and I don't care how common anyone thinks it is, I don't want it and no, I won't have sex with anyone that has HSV-2 even with a condom. Cold sores, which are HSV 1 need to be treated carefully. My long time GF of the past was ready to go down on me with a sore on her lip and couldn't believe when I explained why that's not a good idea. Even after I told her, she said I was wrong. HSV 1 rarely passes from mouth or face to genitals but it can happen and, if you're having an outbreak, you need to avoid oral.

You did the right thing. Men should avoid getting casual oral sex from women. I knew a woman in Miami she was a flight attendant-sugar baby. Very promiscuous. She would go out with cold sores on her lips and pick a new guy every few days . I wonder how many are now walking with herpes “down there”

Anonymous wrote:Examine the your last STI test report. Do you see an HSV test result? You won't, because standard panels don't include it.

A dare to those of you who think you don't have it: tell your doctor you specifically want an HSV test. You have nothing to fear, right?

I get tested every time I have my check-up and specifically ask for the HSV 1 & 2 tests. I don't have either and I don't care how common anyone thinks it is, I don't want it and no, I won't have sex with anyone that has HSV-2 even with a condom. Cold sores, which are HSV 1 need to be treated carefully. My long time GF of the past was ready to go down on me with a sore on her lip and couldn't believe when I explained why that's not a good idea. Even after I told her, she said I was wrong. HSV 1 rarely passes from mouth or face to genitals but it can happen and, if you're having an outbreak, you need to avoid oral.

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Anonymous wrote:There are tons of people that pretty much know they have an std and just don’t get tested. homeless, prostitutes, drug users etc… just because someone doesn’t get tested, it doesn’t mean they don’t know they have it. That is where the “undiagnosed” comes from. If you look it up-in the the majority of cases a person experiences their first outbreak within 3 days of being infected. If someone is walking around not knowing they have HSV-2 it’s because they already know and just dont want a record of it being real.

Why do you persist making stuff up? This is very well documented:

“Studies estimate that up to 90% of those infected with HSV-2 are unaware of their status. Even among people who test positive for HSV-2 antibodies, only about 10 to 40% recall ever experiencing symptoms they associated with herpes. The rest either had no symptoms at all or didn’t recognize them for what they were.”

https://hsvhealth.com/silent-herpes-infection/

These stats on this thread are all over the place. Nobody has been tested. Nobody knows they have it. Nobody remembers the symptoms. Everybody who has it is black or from Baltimore and everybody has it. Gtfoh.

Anonymous wrote:HSV 1 and 2 are the same. Both can be oral or genital. My husband has it and I don't. We don't kiss when he has or feels an outbreak coming and no oral for me at all. I'm not willing to risk that.

They are not the same. HsV-2 is always genital Herpes. Meaning you can only get it through sexual activity. HsV-1 can be on your genitalia but it can also be other places-most often as a cold sore in the mouth area. People can get HSV-1 as children, from sharing utensils, kissing on the cheek etc…My husband and all of his siblings have HSV-1 that they got as children. Both his parents have it. We have been together 20 years and he has had a cold sore twice. He always knows when he is getting one. We refrain from anything while he has one but he has meds for it too when it happens. And I would never give up oral, it’s been 20 years and i’m still negative. Actually just tested for it this past year again. HSV-1 is something we see people with all the time-cold sores you can’t hide. There is so much less of a stigma for it because often times it was totally out of your control. Typically HSV1 you only get in the place you were initially infected-so if it’s on the genitalia then that’s where it will typically be again, so if it started as a cold sore it most likely will always be a cold sore.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I take Valtrex but that is only when I am about to get a cold sore

That’s HSV1

Is it an STD like genital herpes? I see a lot of people with those cold sores on their lips often during the winter time.

Do they come from the cold?

HSV 1 and 2 are the same. Both can be oral or genital. My husband has it and I don't. We don't kiss when he has or feels an outbreak coming and no oral for me at all. I'm not willing to risk that.

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Anonymous wrote:I take Valtrex but that is only when I am about to get a cold sore

That’s HSV1

Ok well what is HSN? Home shopping network?

Anonymous wrote:Wow hard pass no pun intended.

Sorry I don’t get the pun or how this relates to herpes

Anonymous wrote:That's a no from me dog!

Same. Was nice knowing ya. Suggest they find a new love on a dating site for people with the same incurable virus they have

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are tons of people that pretty much know they have an std and just don’t get tested. homeless, prostitutes, drug users etc… just because someone doesn’t get tested, it doesn’t mean they don’t know they have it. That is where the “undiagnosed” comes from. If you look it up-in the the majority of cases a person experiences their first outbreak within 3 days of being infected. If someone is walking around not knowing they have HSV-2 it’s because they already know and just dont want a record of it being real.

Why do you persist making stuff up? This is very well documented:

“Studies estimate that up to 90% of those infected with HSV-2 are unaware of their status. Even among people who test positive for HSV-2 antibodies, only about 10 to 40% recall ever experiencing symptoms they associated with herpes. The rest either had no symptoms at all or didn’t recognize them for what they were.”

https://hsvhealth.com/silent-herpes-infection/

I didn’t make anything up? What if I told you that people get embarrassed and don’t tell the truth when asked about this kind of stuff? Just because a person saying “they don’t recall ever experiencing symptoms” doesn’t make it true. Also the failure to recognize the symptoms for what they were is a perfect example of people who really shouldn’t be having sex at all. If you get genital herpes and just don’t care enough to find out why you have sores that’s really on you. Statistics are only as good as the people they are getting the information from. Think about how many teenagers are asked if they are sexually active or if they have tried drugs. Do you think they all tell the truth?

You should just admit you were wrong instead of digging the hole deeper.

I get that you are angry that you have it and you are trying to rationalize it but come on…you are grasping at straws.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are tons of people that pretty much know they have an std and just don’t get tested. homeless, prostitutes, drug users etc… just because someone doesn’t get tested, it doesn’t mean they don’t know they have it. That is where the “undiagnosed” comes from. If you look it up-in the the majority of cases a person experiences their first outbreak within 3 days of being infected. If someone is walking around not knowing they have HSV-2 it’s because they already know and just dont want a record of it being real.

Why do you persist making stuff up? This is very well documented:

“Studies estimate that up to 90% of those infected with HSV-2 are unaware of their status. Even among people who test positive for HSV-2 antibodies, only about 10 to 40% recall ever experiencing symptoms they associated with herpes. The rest either had no symptoms at all or didn’t recognize them for what they were.”

https://hsvhealth.com/silent-herpes-infection/

I didn’t make anything up? What if I told you that people get embarrassed and don’t tell the truth when asked about this kind of stuff? Just because a person saying “they don’t recall ever experiencing symptoms” doesn’t make it true. Also the failure to recognize the symptoms for what they were is a perfect example of people who really shouldn’t be having sex at all. If you get genital herpes and just don’t care enough to find out why you have sores that’s really on you. Statistics are only as good as the people they are getting the information from. Think about how many teenagers are asked if they are sexually active or if they have tried drugs. Do you think they all tell the truth?

You should just admit you were wrong instead of digging the hole deeper.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are tons of people that pretty much know they have an std and just don’t get tested. homeless, prostitutes, drug users etc… just because someone doesn’t get tested, it doesn’t mean they don’t know they have it. That is where the “undiagnosed” comes from. If you look it up-in the the majority of cases a person experiences their first outbreak within 3 days of being infected. If someone is walking around not knowing they have HSV-2 it’s because they already know and just dont want a record of it being real.

Why do you persist making stuff up? This is very well documented:

“Studies estimate that up to 90% of those infected with HSV-2 are unaware of their status. Even among people who test positive for HSV-2 antibodies, only about 10 to 40% recall ever experiencing symptoms they associated with herpes. The rest either had no symptoms at all or didn’t recognize them for what they were.”

https://hsvhealth.com/silent-herpes-infection/

I didn’t make anything up? What if I told you that people get embarrassed and don’t tell the truth when asked about this kind of stuff? Just because a person saying “they don’t recall ever experiencing symptoms” doesn’t make it true. Also the failure to recognize the symptoms for what they were is a perfect example of people who really shouldn’t be having sex at all. If you get genital herpes and just don’t care enough to find out why you have sores that’s really on you. Statistics are only as good as the people they are getting the information from. Think about how many teenagers are asked if they are sexually active or if they have tried drugs. Do you think they all tell the truth?

imagine having visible sores on your genitalia and being like “this is fine, i’m sure it’s nothing”

hell no

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are tons of people that pretty much know they have an std and just don’t get tested. homeless, prostitutes, drug users etc… just because someone doesn’t get tested, it doesn’t mean they don’t know they have it. That is where the “undiagnosed” comes from. If you look it up-in the the majority of cases a person experiences their first outbreak within 3 days of being infected. If someone is walking around not knowing they have HSV-2 it’s because they already know and just dont want a record of it being real.

Why do you persist making stuff up? This is very well documented:

“Studies estimate that up to 90% of those infected with HSV-2 are unaware of their status. Even among people who test positive for HSV-2 antibodies, only about 10 to 40% recall ever experiencing symptoms they associated with herpes. The rest either had no symptoms at all or didn’t recognize them for what they were.”

https://hsvhealth.com/silent-herpes-infection/

I didn’t make anything up? What if I told you that people get embarrassed and don’t tell the truth when asked about this kind of stuff? Just because a person saying “they don’t recall ever experiencing symptoms” doesn’t make it true. Also the failure to recognize the symptoms for what they were is a perfect example of people who really shouldn’t be having sex at all. If you get genital herpes and just don’t care enough to find out why you have sores that’s really on you. Statistics are only as good as the people they are getting the information from. Think about how many teenagers are asked if they are sexually active or if they have tried drugs. Do you think they all tell the truth?