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No, that does not indicate new infection. It could be that the chafing that you experienced was enough irritation to bring out an outbreak. The only way to know if this is new infection or not for you is if she tests negative – then we will know that it is not new. Otherwise, if she tests positive, then we can’t know.
I would recommend starting suppression 7 days in advance of your surgery for best luck at suppressing outbreaks.
If you have a lot of outbreaks, you can take the medicine every day to reduce the frequency or definitely is she is uninfected.
There is no way to know where she might have outbreaks if she is already infected. If she is not infected and you infect her, then the first outbreak will likely be genital.
You have one more question if you have another concern.
Terri