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he4ling

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  1. My new sex partner and I discussed the fact that we both have hsv-1. He has it orally and I have it genitally. I recently had an outbreak-- sores healed pretty quickly and I waited until 7 days after the sores had healed to have sex with him again. I even went to the OBGYN the day before we had sex and he said he didn't see any active lesions/sores or anything. However, (and I think I'm overthinking lol) when I looked at my vagina the next day, I saw a raised reddish area that was tender. No open skin/sores, but just raised and tender skin near the opening of my vagina. That kinda made me fearful that my outbreak didn't actually end and I had just had sex during an active outbreak. Upon realizing this, I was a little worried, but my research tells me that because my partner has oral HSV-1, he's extremely unlikely to be "re-infected" in his genitals (even if my viral load was relatively high when we had sex). I just wanted to ask the community if this rings true to what you all know about herpes and/or your experience with herpes?
  2. You're a gem! Thank you so much for responding 🙂 your words are so helpful and comforting. I think I just am overthinking because I really like this new sex partner lol and I'm annoyed that I'm kinda out of commission down there right now. I'm going to just give my body some time to do what it needs to do though. Currently my main symptom is the burning in and around my vagina and near my anus-- I'm also experiencing some milky white discharge (all of these are familiar symptoms of a recurrent outbreak for me, I just thought it was weird that they kinda intensified during the healing stage of the outbreak). It might be helpful to mention that I originally thought this outbreak was a yeast infection and so I took monistat 1 last Sunday or monday-- could that be contributing to worsening my symptoms?
  3. I had vaginal intercourse a week ago (Saturday)-- unfortunately the friction triggered a genital hsv1 outbreak (not my first rodeo, but not fun regardless). Although the early symptoms started essentially the next day, I didn't realize my sores until 4 days later (Wednesday). Immediately after noticing them, I started valtrex treatment of 1000mg/day. It is now Saturday and it looks like the sores have completely healed (they honestly looked healed as early as Thursday), but the burning inside and around the outside of my vagina has not subsided (it may have gotten worse but I may be just overthinking it lol). It's been a little while since my last outbreak so I can't remember if this is normal-- does anyone else experience continued irritation even after the sores have healed? Wondering if I should look into other causes of the irritation.
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