How can you get ORAL herpies?!


Question: I just found out that my partner has Oral Herpies. I plan on getting tested but unfortainatly... nothing I can do about it over the weekend.

So I am not sure if I have it or not. We kiss, we share drinks... etc. HE says it cannot be spreaded if he doesn't "go down on me" (btw, we have never done that because I am wierd... I hate it!) but it doesnt make since to me because we swap spit when we kiss! He also says that he doesn't get outbreaks.

If you have ORAL herpies does that mean you have genital too?


Answers: I just found out that my partner has Oral Herpies. I plan on getting tested but unfortainatly... nothing I can do about it over the weekend.

So I am not sure if I have it or not. We kiss, we share drinks... etc. HE says it cannot be spreaded if he doesn't "go down on me" (btw, we have never done that because I am wierd... I hate it!) but it doesnt make since to me because we swap spit when we kiss! He also says that he doesn't get outbreaks.

If you have ORAL herpies does that mean you have genital too?

you can get oral herpies from genital herpies. you can get it from someone with oral herpies. doctors THINK (still some debates on this) that you get these only if there is an outbreak at the time. you can catch them from cups if he has an outbreak.. depends if he gets the virus on the cup while he drinks. a virus is forever... doesn't die.... only becomes dormant (hides in your body) until a random breakout.

if he has oral herpies he can take the gential herpies medicine --- which is for all types of herpies... VALTREX and it works great. if you start to get a blister it can disapear in 1 day if you take the meds. but it can be very expensive... but it's worth it! i know it sounds weird but many doctors prescribe valtrex to oral herpie sufferers hoping to keep the virus under control.

Oral herpes is an infection caused by the herpes simplex virus. The virus causes painful sores on your lips, gums, tongue, roof of your mouth, and inside your cheeks. It also can cause symptoms such as fever and muscle aches.



The herpes simplex virus affects only humans. Mouth sores most commonly occur in children aged 1-2 years, but they can affect people at any age and any time of the year.


People contract herpes by touching infected saliva, mucous membranes, or skin. Because the virus is highly contagious, most people have been infected by at least 1 herpes subtype before adulthood.
Treatment includes medication for fever and taking plenty of fluids.



A topical anesthetic such as viscous lidocaine (Dilocaine, Nervocaine, Xylocaine, Zilactin-L) may be prescribed to relieve pain.


Oral or IV medication does exist for herpes but is not recommended for people with a normal immune system. It is used only for people with weakened immune systems, infants younger than 6 weeks, or people with severe disease.
Oral Herpes Symptoms

Incubation period: For oral herpes, the amount of time between contact with the virus and the appearance of symptoms, the incubation period, is 2-12 days. Most people average about 4 days.


Duration of illness: Signs and symptoms will last 2-3 weeks. Fever, tiredness, muscle aches, and irritability may occur.


Pain, burning, tingling, or itching occurs at the infection site before the sores appear. Then clusters of blisters erupt. These blisters break down rapidly and, when seen, appear as tiny, shallow, gray ulcers on a red base. A few days later, they become crusted or scabbed and appear drier and more yellow


Oral sores: The most intense pain caused by these sores occurs at the onset and make eating and drinking difficult.


The sores may occur on the lips, the gums, the front of the tongue, the inside of the cheeks, the throat, and the roof of the mouth.


They may also extend down the chin and neck.


The gums may become mildly swollen and red and may bleed.


Neck lymph nodes often swell and become painful.


In people in their teens and 20s, herpes may cause a painful throat with shallow ulcers and a grayish coating on the tonsils.

If you don't have oral herpes yet, you probably will at some point- the only way to prevent that would be to never kiss him. Oral herpes, aka cold sores, aren't a huge deal, they're just annoying for a few days.

It is possible to have both oral and genital herpes. Just make sure there's no mouth-to-genital contact either directly or via a hand during or just before he gets a cold sore.





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