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May 3, 2022 at 2:43 pm
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Terri Warren
Keymaster
When reading what you first wrote, I was worried you might have a positive swab test. You can contract HSV 1 genital by receiving oral sex from someone who has HSV 1 orally, even if there is no cold sore present, and that’s apparently what happened to you.
Your HSV 1 genital infection may not recur and if it does, recurrences, after the first year, will be infrequent. Since your partner appears to have given this to you, it is unlikely that you would then infect them genitally.
Let me know what questions you may have now.
Terri