Reply To: Question about herpes transmission and my symptoms

[Drumboy27]

Hey Terry, thanks for the response.

I do understand that hands would be a pretty unusual way to pass it, but much of my concern is pertaining to the use of oil, baby oil specifically I believe. That stuff is literally meant to lock in moisture and is pretty tough to get off of you dont at least use water.

I’d love to believe she washed, trust me. But my question is isn’t so much to figure out if she would or wouldn’t have, but more of assessing the risk level if she didn’t. She may have at least wiped her hands down with a towel till they were dry, but if thats all she did, couldn’t the virus still be within the residue of the oil and then just loosened up again onced she re-applied it for my massage?

These things are unfortunately making things seem possible to me and I’d love if you could explain to me how the virus couldn’t spread that way, as it would shut that part of my anxiety down at least.

Theres still the fear that she had herpetic whitlow too, even though its rare.

Either way, I definitely have something strange going on down there, even little spots around my back or arm would have a burning sensation sometimes and little light bumps on my buttocks or legs and these all happen to be areas that she massaged with her hands.

So i fear herpes because im thinking what other skin to skin things could be passed to me at a place like that..anything else that could come out of that experience? Cause it certainly seems like at least something is related to this massage.

Thanks again!