I think you can continue to lead a normal life. Your situation is way more typical than you might think – probably lots and lots of people are in the same situation. The only way to know the location of an HSV 1 infection is to have an outbreak somewhere, and since HSV 1 genital infection rarely recurs, that’s probably not going to happen very often, if at all, if you have genital infection. If you do have an oral infection from childhood, you are very likely NOT to have picked up a genital infection at all.
Terri