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Can you get genital herpes from having cold sores on your mouth?
I heard of someone who their boyfriend had cold sores on his mouth and he ate her out. Then one day she saw sores on her vagina and they turned into the STD herpes. Is that true?
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You, most certainly, can contract herpes on any area of your body. Many people with herpes end up with sores on their fingers because they touch an open sore even! So, yes, you can contract herpes all over your body if you're not careful.
You can actually contract genital herpes (HSV-2 strain) on your mouth and oral herpes (HSV-1 strain) on your genitals! Now, that makes things very, very confusing but it is really common now. So, if someone has oral herpes and gives their partner oral sex, their partner may end up with herpes on their genitals. The same goes with genital herpes being contracted through oral sex onto the lips.
Note that the virus cannot mutate into other strains. This means that if you have oral herpes and you spread it to your genitals (by unwashed hands or something) then you still have oral herpes on your genitals--NOT genital herpes. Genital herpes is strain 2 while oral herpes is strain 1.
The virus for genital herpes lives in a different area of your body than oral herpes does. Genital herpes locates itself in your spinal cord (and is shed from wherever you contracted it) while oral herpes is located in your facial structure (and is shed from wherever you contracted it). Genital herpes is said to cause a lot of nerve pain through the back and legs. Neither strain can mutate into each other so, technically, you can have TWO different kinds of herpes.
Herpes is highly contagious so you have to wash thoroughly if you're experiencing an outbreak to lessen your chances of spreading it all over your body.
Herpes also can be spread even if there are not visible signs or symptoms! This means that if someone has the virus inside of them they can spread it to you even if you don't see it on their skin. See, your skin cells are constantly shedding and the virus likes to come to the surface randomly--so it can be shed out at any time and you not know it.
The only real way to find out if you have herpes if to make a doctor's appointment specifically to be STD checked (request for herpes in case they don't usually test for it). They may scrap a sore if you currently have one and do blood testing to find out if you have any strain of the virus.
There is no cure for herpes so one you contract it, you will have it for life. If this really happened then the girl does indeed have herpes from her partner who gave her oral sex while having an outbreak.
If you have more questions about herpes please feel free to ask me and I will answer your questions to the best of my ability. :)
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Yes, this can happen.
I don't know the names of the herpes, but I know it changes from the Herpes Simplex 1 [I think?] from your mouth to the STD when it comes into contact with.. yeah.
--Jack
(17/m)
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Yes I believe that this can happen. Herpes is a virus. It lives in people. the more people the better. The herpes virus will jump at any opportunity to infect a new human being. So be careful.
- Michele
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