Reply To: Did I just get HSV2 on the mouth?

[Zoros_LekLek]

Ok. Been trying to contact him, to no avail, but I’ll keep trying.

As for the rest: I already had a pretty bad flu before I met her. That night, I smoked a ton of cigarettes (which I don’t usually do) and slept like two hours. The following day, I went and worked out very intensely for a couple of hours, to try to get myself back together. Instead, I think my immune system just collapsed. I find it weird that I would develop a cold sore, mostly because I can’t actually remember a time where lack of sleep and stress affected me that way, and I’ve done a lot of not-sleeping, being stressed, and so on. But I suppose the tests don’t lie, and so (given your reading of the test) I assume that I have actually had HSV1 for a long time.

Before this girl, I was in a 3 1/2 year relationship with a single person. I was her second partner ever, and I’m pretty positive that I did not have HSV2 from that relationship.

The girl I saw on Monday is getting STD tests of her own (including IgGs). If HSV2 does not show up for her, then one of two: either we’ve both contracted HSV2 super, super recently; or I just have had HSV1 for a long time, and between the flu, the cigarettes, and the not-sleeping, I just screwed my immune system over and developed a cold sore. The latter seems much more probable, though I will get myself tested again in a few months. I guess my only question then was whether I might not have contracted HSV1 from her. But given your response to how many antibodies I have, it seems like that, too, is totally unlikely.

In which case, I guess it’s this girl that should have been worried about me performing oral sex on her. Curious how these things work out. But I think she and I are (and will be) both ok.