Those feelings don’t necessarily mean you are shedding virus all the time, no, but it might be helpful for you to have a swab test of the area when you have these symptoms so you can get some indication of whether these symptoms represent viral shedding in you. Herpes doesn’t cause hard lump sores as the ones you describe – the sores are normally not hard and would ulcerate at some point if they were herpes.
And there is a word limit on the posts, that’s why you got cut off.
Terri