Can i get herpes?.......please read all details and tell me what u think...its important. ?

Question

i have had a cold sore 2 years before i even met my bf and i don't think i'v had one since....i know its not the same kinda herpes but we kiss and when he is fingering me sometimes he goes down on me. i wouldn't kiss him when i had a cold sore but i know it can lay dominate in your body and that u always have it since its a virus but does my bf now have it? if so could i now get genital herpes? last winter i thought i was getting a cold sore so i kinda got scared but i dont think it was a cold sore because it didnt start till i started using a certain kind of chap stick and it wasnt really bumps but it was itchy and i remember the last time i had a cold sore it didn't itch. though i thought it may be so i stopped using that kind of chap stick and i put some abrvia that i had the time i did have a cold sore 2 years ago....i dont think it was a cold sore though because the abriva didn't hurt 2 years ago and then like out of no where it hurt and didn't help. so i stopped using the chap-stick i was using and started using a new chap stick and i haven't had that problem since so i think that i might have just been allergic to the cheap chap stick.

Answer 1

Can you get genital herpes?   Sure.  Almost anyone can.  And your BF may have oral herpes himself and could give you genital herpes.   Since you can spread herpes even when no sores are present, and since most people with oral and/or genital herpes don't know that they have it, you could get it from him.

You are very unlikely to self-infect from your own mouth to your genitals.   This most often happens during an initial outbreak, when your body doesn't have any antibodies.  By now, it is unlikely that you would self-infect your own oral herpes on to your genitals.   Possible, but its unlikely.  

Further, these symptoms don't sound like genital herpes.   Herpes come and goes, it isn't just a bump that stays there.   And it usually hurts, it isn't like a scar mark.  

Me, I wouldn't worry about it.

Answer 2

you can look at this website, it has alot of info on different STD's and HIV

http://www.sexhealthguru.com/