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Would you meet someone who gets cold sores?
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By *omOneTwo OP Man 6 days ago
Alvor Portugal |
I think the risk is a lot lower if there's no blisters.
I've never had then and been tested to check I didn't have the antibodies either.
This came from a dilemma where a FWB suddenly said she had a cold sore and said she hadn't had one for a few years. But never mentioned it before even when we shared sti test results!
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"I think the risk is a lot lower if there's no blisters.
I've never had then and been tested to check I didn't have the antibodies either.
This came from a dilemma where a FWB suddenly said she had a cold sore and said she hadn't had one for a few years. But never mentioned it before even when we shared sti test results!
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Cold sores aren't tested for on sti tests. I'm assuming you mean ones on the mouth.
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If you never want to catch any infection you probably are better living in isolation and not having sex.
More people than not have the HSV-1 virus and 90% of them don't have cold sores.
As others say, people don't get tested for this at sexual health services. You've probably encountered the virus and won't know |
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Yes as long as not a current flare up. More people carry it than you think, just looked it up and around 70% of people in uk carry it. Mrs gets occasional one but mr has never had one, we just don’t kiss when it’s there xx |
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As long as they dont actually have one at the time you meet you wont catch it.
I used get them a lot as a teenager, but not had one for years. I wouldn't even offer to meet anyone if I did have a flare up though. |
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My wife occasionally gets cold sores but prescriptions today really help.
If she feels one coming on, she immediately takes the tablet medication and 9 times out of 10 it prevents the lip sore.
She was very sexually active in her late teens and picked up one then before we met and married |
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"Yeah. I mean not flared up, but dormant? Most people carry some variety of HPV "
HPV and Herpes Simplex Virus are different viruses... Once you've contracted HSV you basically have it for life, once treated it will remain remain dormant in your body unless your immune system is weakened, then it can flare up. hPV can be cleared by the body's immune system |
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By *rs BxxWoman 4 days ago
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Has a cold sore no, gets cold sores, how would I know? And yes I would as I occasionally get them if in the sun. I wouldn't meet whilst I had 1 and not until it had completely healed. |
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"How would you know unless they were active ?
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Precisely 😆 I suffer with cold sores. Their ugly heads appear when I am ill or run down/low in mood. I've suffered with them since I was about 7. They're VERY painful. I wouldn't meet anyone if I had a cold sore. |
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Same suffer from them since late teens get break out when stressed or run down have a couple outbreaks a year though have found the severity is considerably less than use to always wait to be clear of visual sign and won't meet for a few weeks after that |
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Like to point out to all the people who seem to get it confused with some life changing disease. Mrs cheeky had had coldsores from a young age, we have been married nearly 20 years, mr has so far never had one, we just don’t kiss when has one. Also something like 70 percent of uk have it so if you go to a club/party your probably surrounded by it. |
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Ooo, sexual health is one of the things I'm nerdy about 
Coldsores (Herpes Simplex Virus/HSV) are incredibly common, around 80% of the population has either type 1 or type 2 or both, there's very little difference between the two types. Type 1 is more common orally and type 2 is more common genitally, but both can be present in either or both places and neither is "worse" than the other.
It's passed on by direct skin contact, not surfaces or fluids, so condoms don't protect against it and you can't pass it on by sharing drinks etc. The method of transmission is called viral shedding, but I'm not a scientist and can't explain this in detail haha (at least not well!)
Most transmission is immediately before or after symptoms, by people just underestimating how long it's active for, but it can be passed on without symptoms (at a rate of around 4.2% iirc). You can manage or suppress flare ups with medication called acyclovir which further reduces asymptomatic transmission rates to around 1.9% (again, iirc). I got these figures from a study a few years ago.
Acyclovir can be hard on the kidneys so it's not recommended to take it continuously, only when you're having symptoms or experiencing several flare ups in a short space of time. You can buy it online or from superdrug or you can get it from any sexual health clinic (as well as several other preventative meds, which I may do a separate post about because it's cool as fuck).
When dormant it lives deep in the nerves, which is why it can't be "cured" but it has a negligible impact on most people's lives. The stigma around it is largely from a 90s ad campaign for over the counter cold sore medicine.
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"Ooo, sexual health is one of the things I'm nerdy about
Coldsores (Herpes Simplex Virus/HSV) are incredibly common, around 80% of the population has either type 1 or type 2 or both, there's very little difference between the two types. Type 1 is more common orally and type 2 is more common genitally, but both can be present in either or both places and neither is "worse" than the other.
It's passed on by direct skin contact, not surfaces or fluids, so condoms don't protect against it and you can't pass it on by sharing drinks etc. The method of transmission is called viral shedding, but I'm not a scientist and can't explain this in detail haha (at least not well!)
Most transmission is immediately before or after symptoms, by people just underestimating how long it's active for, but it can be passed on without symptoms (at a rate of around 4.2% iirc). You can manage or suppress flare ups with medication called acyclovir which further reduces asymptomatic transmission rates to around 1.9% (again, iirc). I got these figures from a study a few years ago.
Acyclovir can be hard on the kidneys so it's not recommended to take it continuously, only when you're having symptoms or experiencing several flare ups in a short space of time. You can buy it online or from superdrug or you can get it from any sexual health clinic (as well as several other preventative meds, which I may do a separate post about because it's cool as fuck).
When dormant it lives deep in the nerves, which is why it can't be "cured" but it has a negligible impact on most people's lives. The stigma around it is largely from a 90s ad campaign for over the counter cold sore medicine.
If you read all that I love you "
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I've been experimenting with a tincture I make which is showing remarkable effects on cold sores.
But I don't know anyone with genital herpes 
The ingredients are all natural and although there isn't a permanent cure it will stop the breakout of sores within a day or two of the first tingle.
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"I've been experimenting with a tincture I make which is showing remarkable effects on cold sores.
But I don't know anyone with genital herpes
The ingredients are all natural and although there isn't a permanent cure it will stop the breakout of sores within a day or two of the first tingle.
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You absolutely do know several people with HSV in the genital area, they just haven't mentioned it to you.
I'd be curious to know what's in the tincture? You have so be so careful with genital skin, especially around vulvas as it's so easy to disrupt the internal flora.
Tea tree oil can be helpful in settling a flare up in early stages, but it's not safe to ingest or use on mucous membranes so it's only suitable for external facial use, not in the mouth or in the genitals. |
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