If you ever had a oral herpes/Fever blisters. then you can't get genital her!
Question: I was reading from a previous question on here where someone mentioned they used to get fever blisters from time to time when they were younger, but it's been many years since they had it. The person who answered the question stated it is considered "oral herpes" which is hsv 1, and that because a person had "oral herpes" in their system from their childhood, that it's impossible to ever get "genital herpes" because the person always has "oral herpes" hsv1 in their body which is the same antibodies as hsv2 of genital herpes.
Is this true?
Answers: I was reading from a previous question on here where someone mentioned they used to get fever blisters from time to time when they were younger, but it's been many years since they had it. The person who answered the question stated it is considered "oral herpes" which is hsv 1, and that because a person had "oral herpes" in their system from their childhood, that it's impossible to ever get "genital herpes" because the person always has "oral herpes" hsv1 in their body which is the same antibodies as hsv2 of genital herpes.
Is this true?
No, not exactly.
I suspect that answere might have been me, but you could have misunderstood it a little.
If you have hsv-1 on the mouth - hsv-1 refers to the virus, not to the location - you CAN still get hsv-2 on the genitals.
Genital herpes is NOT automatically hsv-2. Lots of people seem to assume that any herpes on the genitals is automatically hsv-2, because 2 refers to the genitals or something. It doesn't. They are two viruses, and either can infect either location. mouth or genitals.
50-70% of genital herpes infections these days are caused by hsv-1, the same virus you probably have on your mouth, if you get cold sores.
You are extremely unlikely to get hsv-1 on the genitals if you already have it on the mouth. This is because your body will have produced antibodies to the virus.
This is the advice of the Herpes Viruses Assocation on the subject:
"If you and your partner have the SAME virus you will not reinfect each other - even on a different part of the body. So, if you have caught it on your genital from your partner