Outbreak in a new area?

[lm44]

Hello all!

 

So, I've had H for almost two years; this past month has been rough emotionally and physically. I had a yeast infection in the beginning of the month that was treated accordingly and I'm going through a break up amongst financial stress so my emotions are all over. The past two weeks I've noticed an almost constant irritation down in the nether regions along my bikini line and the hood (I think it's called?) of the vagina and today I noted blistering (my last outbreak was actually a year ago so it's been a while and I've never had it in this area so I was a bit taken aback); generally my outbreaks have been on the labia and the inner parts, never have I ever had one on my bikini line, etc. I did post a few weeks ago about whether razor burn could actually be an outbreak?

 

I'm assuming other's may have experienced this as well? Have I spread it somehow? I do shave down there periodically but I and very good about getting new razors constantly and keeping them clean.

 

Any insight would be great.

 

<3 Lexi

[mr_hopp]

Yeah, autoinoculation is pretty hard to do unless the fluid from an active outbreak somehow gets transferred to another break in the skin or mucous membrane. But it sounds like you've been careful in that respect, so the other explanation is that herpes can travel down different branches of nerve ganglia. It does for the most part stay in the same place for most people, but it has been known to take another path of least resistance.

 

Here's an image that shows how the nerve ganglia spread like branches of a tree as they approach the skin (even though it's specifically showing zoster/chickenpox, it's the same idea):

http://img.medscape.com/article/718/534/718534-fig1.jpg

[Katidid]

Im44 I have had this over 30 yrs and have had most ob's where you are talking about. Actually even higher that that.... on my abs. No idea why. I guess it's what Adrial said. My ob's are never always in the same place.....except hood

[Dandelion]

@adrial how common is this ? After ten years I'm having an outbreak in a totally different place?!!!