Very Upset

Hi. I have GHSV1 and I was wondering how likely it is to pass this on to someone who gives me oral sex? I haven’t had any sexual contact with anyone since learning my ex gave this to me. I probably never will again but I want to be educated in case I ever decide to be sexually active again.

Going through the same thing. I feel like I have too much more life to live to have to live with this for the rest of my life. I cursed my ex out for giving me this because he knew he would get cold sores and never told me. Ended up giving me ghsv1 and everyday I have a burning sensation down there. It’s been almost 2 months since this started and I can’t go on like this. How am I supposed to cope with the fact that I have this when I’m uncomfortable everyday?!

Hi. I’m going through the same thing. I feel like there’s not enough information out there. I’m still experiencing a burning sensation down there and my doctor can’t tell me why. It’s been like this since the initial outbreak which was a month and a half ago. I can’t live the rest of my life feeling like this.

Hi everyone. I’m a 28 y/o female. Back towards the end of January, I started having weird symptoms down there, such as pain, but I was also on my cycle so I figured it has something to do with that. At first it was an itch so I thought I might have had a yeast infection. Then it began aching. A few days later, it started burning. I took a hand mirror to examine myself and saw that I had 2 bumps on the inside of my vagina. I immediately started crying because I’ve never experienced anything like that before and my mind immediately went to herpes. I went to the doctor to be tested and found out the beginning of February that I had genital hsv1. I was so heartbroken and I’ve been very depressed. I’m crying everyday and really don’t see the point of living. I have too much more life ahead of myself and now I feel it’s ruined. I don’t have kids yet and I feel very disgusted with myself. I feel like I can never have kids now. I left my partner because I can never forgive him for this. He knew he had hsv1 orally and never disclosed this to me. I even asked him about the last time he was tested at the very beginning of the relationship and he didn’t mention that he gets cold sores. He said he didn’t think that was something he had to tell me. I’m hurt because I’ve always been careful with my sexual health and I has only been in a committed relationship with him for a month before this happened. I was celibate the entire 2020 and was tested a few weeks before every having sex with him. Everything was negative. anyway. Ever since my first outbreak, then burning sensation down there has never gone away although the sores went away a long time ago. My doctor doesn’t know why I’m still feeling this sensation. Valtrex isn’t doing anything and yesterday she prescribed me something for yeast and a UTI but I don’t think this symptom has anything to do with either. I’ve had a UTI and yeast infection before so I know how my body feels when this is the case. It’s hard to cope with this news when my vagina is in constant discomfort with the burning. Idk what to do.