Hi, I just found out I have HSV1 in my genital area. I need help on a question. My partner has cold sores and always had them for the 20 plus years we have been together. We have not had sex in the last 15 years. We broke up for 6 months and I had one sexual experience with someone that has cold sores and they gave me oral sex.
Now I have it down there. Could I have gotten it from my partner even though we had no sex for years or should I assume I have gotten it from the one encounter I had while we were broken up? We r back together now and I am just devastated because I never cheated on her while we were together. Could I have gotten it from my partners cold sores in the past and infected myself down there?
Any advice or answers would be so appreciated. I am so scared. I have painful bumps and lesions down there and now it just hurts and burns and itches and my skin from the waist down to my thighs hurt to the touch and have very bad pelvic pain also.
I am on day 19 of this misery.