Reply To: confused about my status, symptoms and how I should "act" now

[Anonymous]

Thank you Terri! As you can probably tell, this has weighed on me heavily for a year and a half. To answer your question, the oral sex was done with a condom as well. She did put the condom on with her mouth, so it’s possible that there was contact without condom briefly, but that was it. Thank you for your honest advice. So hard to get a real honest opinion even from doctors. It didn’t occur to my Doctor that it would be extemely unlikely to get ghsv1 after having oral hsv1 for so long. Although, I did see a Neurologist and an Infectious Disease Doctor over that time to try and figure out this thigh burning sensation, and they both seemed very skeptical that I had herpes at all. The thigh sensations still bother me, and probably a big part of the reason why it’s been so hard for me to let it go, because it started at the same time as the initial symptoms. And I will say that the very first symptoms, I thought, did look very Herpes like initially. I looked at it and was like “whaaaat” that looks like a cold sore, but again, it never fully blistered over after that (which I thought maybe was because the meds stopped the full progression). Certainly nothing else has been typical herpes like. However, I think it’s time for me to let it go (nervously), and your opinion is GREATLY helpful. It allows me to move on a little with how I deal with sex and relationships, and I can focus on other possible medical reasons for why I’m having these thigh/crease sensations. I thank you again, very much so. It saddens/perplexes me that there aren’t more experts on the subject given the prevalance of the disease and the emotional pains it puts so many people through. You are providing a great service here. Please let me know if there is anything else I should think about related to this, otherwise I wish you the best and continued gratitude for what you do here for so many :).