Voguegirl
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Thank you all! Very good to know my kids are safe using the bathroom after me.
Ihavequestions- interesting- I bet it wasn't included in mine either. I just never would have known it could be dormant so long. From what I'm reading, hormones seem to play a big part in herpes for women. Would be interesting if pregnancy etc could have actually made it come out after all these years.
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Thank you so much for your response! I don't think I had an igg test- at least one that screened for HSV. The doctor screened for HIV and a bunch of other stuff when I was pregnant in that time and said everything was clear, but I don't know for sure that HSV was included in that screening.
Do people who experience it being dormant and then all of a sudden active after so many years? It would have to be at least 13 years since exposure.
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Hello everyone! I'm new here and so glad to have found this forum 🙂
I am 39, been in a monogamous relationship with my husband for 11 years. Over a year ago, a biopsy of sores on my upper thigh showed that I had HSV (they didn't specify type). At the time, they told me it was probably shingles as I was super tired and sick too... until it came back 6 months later. The latest outbreak was 4 inches from the first location on my sacrum- something the doctor said wouldn't happen, but I am not finding online that it can.
My internal medicine doctor, GYN, and dermatologist have all said that it "just happens sometimes" and I could have picked HSV up at a pool or although rare from a toilet seat (I was working at a stadium using public toilets and at a relative's home who has HSV a few weeks prior to the first outbreak). It's bothering me so much though not to have any idea where it came from. I have 2 small kids, and I'm terrified that if I could pass it along to them.
Has anyone else gotten HSV and had no idea how? Or had it be dormant for over a decade before initial outbreak?
Does anyone have experience with sores "traveling" along a nerve or appearing in different locations?
Worried something is wrong now, but doctors don't seem to have a lot of answers so hoping someone here might know more from experience. Thanks for listening and thanks in advance for any advice 🙂
Anyone else diagnosed late in life?
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SO glad I found this thread. If anyone is still following... I'm trying to solve the mystery of how HSV could have been dormant for so long. I am starting to have early menopause symptoms and was pregnant 4 and 6 years ago- so lots of hormone changes!
Did anyone else notice a connection between hormones and HSV suddenly coming out after being dormant for so long?