oral hsv2 - Herpes Message Board

STUDLY352 · 03-18-2005, 12:56 PM

anyone here have oral HSV2 as well? outbreaks?

STUDLY352 · 03-18-2005, 10:43 PM

what i mean is has anyone had first ever cold sores on the mouth primarily or continuously after they were diagnosed with genital hsv2?

STUDLY352 · 03-19-2005, 10:13 AM

i had a significant genital breakout as well as a few tiny blisters around myh mouth that i can never remember having any? is this normal? does it sound like type 1 or 2?

backpacker · 03-19-2005, 08:37 PM

I'm sorry no one is answering you--it's true that I've heard a lot of people saying they have type 1 genitally (got it from oral sex) but no one with type 2 orally. If you don't know what type you have, you can get a sore swabbed. You could try getting two cultures done, one genitally and one orally. If the sores are too well healed for a culture, you could get a blood test done if it has been several months since you contracted h. Then they could tell what type you have, but not where your ob's will be. Nobody can tell what type of herpes you have without a swab or blood test, since both types can occur pretty much anywhere on the body.

beaker24 · 03-19-2005, 08:46 PM

I think the difficulty is that oral type 2 is not very common. A lot of oral problems turn out to be type 1 in the end. Type 2 just doesn't seem to take to the mouth the way type 1 takes to the genitals. There do seem to be a lot of people who have type 1 genitally but I have only read of one person having confirmed type 2 orally.

Blisters around the mouth sounds a lot like type 1 simply because oral type 2 is pretty rare and oral type 1 pretty common. However, as backpacker says, the only way to know which type you have on your mouth is to get the sores swabbed soon after they appear (within 1-2 days). If you do have type 2 orally though, you will be unlikely to get any further outbreaks, so it may not be possible to swab any further sores which appear.