Ten years ago I was diagnosed with herpes. The weird thing is that it's on my outter leg. The first five years of having it, I'd have outbreaks maybe 1-2xs a year. Then the past 6 years I've had no outbreaks. My entire life I've disclosed which has caused a lot of relationships to stop at a dead hault. I've had a lot of conflicting conversations with doctors over the years about how to disclose and if I even should. I've had doctors say I don't need to because it's not genital herpes. They've said it's HSV1 it just happened to live at a weird spot. I've never had it on my lip only outbreak ever was on my leg. At first I was even misdiagnosed. In college I had shingles on my back. About 5 years later when I started getting sores on my leg the doctor said it was shingles again. Two bouts of it and they kept saying shingles. Then a third time about a year later and they said herpes but not genital herpes. It's led to so much confusion. No man has ever told me he's had a cold sore. People aren't disclosing HSV1 so why have I been subjecting myself to it just because it's on my leg and not a traditional sore? I even take Acyclovir cause I have been so scared my entire life that I just took it to try to help the issue. I mean I haven't had an outbreak in 6 years. Im asking this because I just met someone I really like and am terrified to scare him away - over something like most of the world seems to have. How do I tell him I have HSV1 and it's not as scary as HSV2? HELP please.
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