Protected oral sex with cold sore

[Dantes]

So not my wisest decision. Gf gave me oral when she had an active oral cold sore but we made sure to use a condom.

We made sure she never made skin to skin contact with any area that was not covered by the condom. Essentially I made a grip with two fingers around my penis so she never went down far enough to make skin to skin contact with any of my exposed genitals.

From what I could tell there was zero skin to skin contact.

However I did notice possibly some saliva that might have dripped down to some exposed areas.

What are the chances of contracting herpes just from the possible saliva exposure?

[Terri Warren]

You were extremely careful and I think the risk of you getting HSV from some dripping saliva is very low. I suspect if there was a lot of saliva, you would certainly have noticed.ri

Ter

[Dantes]

Thank you for the response. My follow up question would be if my girlfriend has oral HSV (she rarely gets cold sores, first one she’s had in years she said) even when asymptomatic am I always at risk at it transferring to me genitally with oral sex?

It seems most people have oral herpes and most people also engage in oral sex.

[Terri Warren]

Yes, you are always at some degree of small risk since she is infected with HSV 1. Do you actually know that you don’t have HSV 1 or just think you don’t?

Terri

[Dantes]

I have been blood tested several
Times for herpes over periods of years. I get tested regularly also add In herpes blood test.

Assuming I haven’t got herpes of any sort from this recent encounter I’ve always been negative both hsv1 and 2.

[Terri Warren]

OK. Just so you know that the IgG test misses 30% of HSV 1 infections (even when testing repeatedly) compared to western blot.

Terri

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