How possible is this to get cold sore? ?

Question

I've never had a cold sore, i finally discover what looks to be one a morning with drool all damp at the corner of my mouth. I never done oral s*x or kissed a girl (yea i know sad but it's true) and out of everyone at my school who had s*x/oral s*x or kissed said they never had one. I know oral herpes is very easily spread but if it's as easy as sharing a simple can of juice i think that's just unrealistic.

I thought but to the last time i had shared a drink as i said i have never kissed anyone. It was 11 - 10 days ago and he told me how he kissed girls in a dance club that allowed people who are 16 years old to go in. I am always worried when i share drinks even when i know the person, i remember he didn't have any cold sores on his lip, mouth. So how possible is it for me to contract the virus like this even if he has it but doesn't show outbreaks.... It's just shocking because i've been very protected as a child, when someone wants to kiss me my dad or mom would pull me away so unlikely i got it as a child. It's too late to get it checked with a dermatologist since it's gone but i am very fustrated that it would be me out of all my friends who do crazy things that gets it.

What can i do can someone help me? should i wait it out and see if it does come back

Extra details i can tell you is that there were no pain at all and i did not experiecne what they call the prodrome the day before. It was only itchy!! Could drooling possibly cause blisters to form and lead to a yeast infection that can scab?? i dunno but i remember l*****g it alot and it tasted salty.

Sorry about the paranoid question but it's how i really feel.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

it could have been a cold sore, it could have been nothing more than a chapped lip....without examination it's impossible to say.  I doubt very much you got it from sharing a drink with someone, especially if they did not have an active lesion themselves.  Ask your mom if you had chicken pox as a child...that is where most of us pick up the virus, it remains dormant in the system until triggered.

Answer 2

lol

yeah, I thought I had one once and it went away the next day (cold sores don't do that)

of course, I never drool in my sleep though

:p

Don't worry about it. If you had a problem, you would know

I've heard that coldsores are painful and can last for weeks.

check this out:

http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-t...

Answer 3

Why don't you Google "cold sores" to learn a little more about them.

As far as I know we all have the virus which causes them but with many people it never becomes active.

Answer 4

I would be very careful about sharing drinks,candy bars,  toothbrushes, glasses, etc.  It is very easy to catch and once you have the virus, it never goes away. (sometimes, I've heard, I never asked my doctor, you can be born with the virus. I don't know how true this is. But the rest of the info I've given you is true and factual.

The virus that causes cold sores is known as the herpes simplex virus (HSV). There are two types of HSV, type I and type II. Cold sores are usually caused by type I. Herpes simplex infections are contagious. The virus is spread from person to person by kissing or other close contact with sores or even from contact with apparently normal skin that is shedding the virus. Infected saliva is also a means of transmitting the virus. People are most contagious when they have active blister-like sores. Once the blisters have dried and crusted over (within a few days), the risk of contagion is significantly lessened. However, a person infected with HSV can pass it on to another person even when a cold sore is not present. This is because the virus is sometimes shed in saliva even when sores are not present. Despite popular myth, it is almost impossible to catch herpes (cold sores) from contaminated surfaces, towels, or washcloths.

After the first infection, the virus enters the nerve cells and travels up the nerve until it comes to a place called a ganglion. There, it lays quietly in a stage that is called a "dormant" or "latent" period. At times, the virus can start multiplying again and travel down the nerve to the skin, causing new cold sores. The exact way this happens is not clear, but it is known that some conditions seem to be associated with recurrences, including

fever, colds, or the flu (this is why some people call them "fever blisters"), ultraviolet radiation (exposure to the sun),stress,changes in the immune system, hormonal changes, such as menstruation, and

trauma to the skin. Sometimes there is no apparent cause of the recurrence.

Colds sores have a tendency to recur in more or less the same place