I don’t know why they did a PCR as a blood test either – I am guessing that they don’t understand the application of PCR testing for herpes. Has anyone swab tested any of the sores? If not, that should be done. If you have never had a cold sore, then you are vulnerable to HSV 1 genitally. But as I read your note, it sounds like your wife gets cold sores, is that right? If she is the giver of oral sex to you then it would be possible that any genital HSV 1 infection could be from her.
I’m not sure what you mean when you say that you are getting a nose or lip sore that is coming but doesn’t blister, particularly if you have never had a cold sore on your lip.
At any rate, I think the likelihood of your symptoms being from herpes is small, but since no one has done any swab testing, hard to say for sure. I think you will need to wait until 16 weeks and do a western blot to get more certainty.
I am also assuming that you have had sex with your regular partner since this encounter and that’s why you are worried that she would get herpes from you?
Lysine, by the way, does nothing to treat herpes nor does ibuprofen, so if those are helping, it makes it less likely that it is herpes.
Terri
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