hsv1 oral and genital?

[ihavequestionsido]

I have had oral hsv1 my entire life since I was a baby, so over 20 years. My recent gf was diagnosed with ghsv1 shortly before we started dating. We began having sex without protection with the assumption that I would not be able to get reinfected genitally. One night we had sex shortly after her sores healed or were in the final stages of healing. I started to keep a close eye on my genitals because I was worried because I knew we probably should have waited a little longer for her to heal. I noticed two very small flat pinpoint size red dots on the inside of my thigh but they didn’t worry me. Maybe a week later i noticed some spots pop u on my penis like a red spot around the follicle of a hair that is still there a year later. Most of the bumps/spots that popped up didn’t concern me much until I got a bump about two-three months later towards the bottom of my scrotom. It was a single bump that looked like either a pimple or a blister so I popped it and took a shower to try and clean it. I didn’t notice it was there until i looked. It didn’t hurt at all and it did not ulcer. It went from bump to me popping it to it scabbing but the scabbing continued for about a week. It has been a year since that happened and I have not had anything concerning pop up since. I am trying to figure out if it is a really minor case of hsv1 since i have already had it all my life or if it was just a small ingrown hair irritated by the summer heat but I am not sure if ingrown hairs can scab like this bump did. The igg test I took before meeting her was 59.20 and the test I took a year after this encounter was 59.00.

Does this sound like herpes to you?
Would my igg number increase if I became reinfected genitally?

[ihavequestionsido]

This encounter also happened around the time of my covid vaccine. Would that make me more suseptible to getting reinfected?

[Terri Warren]

Your IgG result would not increase if you got HSV 1 genitally, but I think that is extremely unlikely, given your very well established HSV 1 infection. The COVID vaccine would not make you more susceptible, no.

Terri

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