[Question #11212] Herpes from a kiss or saliva

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16 months ago
Hello 
Recently had a sexual encounter with a lady who masturbated me and then at the end as she was cleaning me up it, I think she may have either kissed or licked the top of my penis. 
Is it possible for me to get herpes this way. 

Would you get it inside the urethra from this type of contact

Have been having pain inside top of the penis since the day it happened. 

It doesn’t hurt to urinate but appears red inside the urethra and feels like it’s getting worse 
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Terri Warren, RN, Nurse Practitioner
16 months ago
While it is possible to acquire HSV genitally be receiving oral sex (then it is almost always HSV 1 genital infection), the kind of contact that you describe seem extremely unlikely to transmit virus to the penis.  I just don't feel like this is present any real risk of HSV

Terri
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16 months ago
Thanks for replying. When I asked this question to Dr Hook he said that there is no risk of anything and no need to test. 
Do you think this is correct and it’s only theoretically possible to get hsv

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Terri Warren, RN, Nurse Practitioner
16 months ago
I agree totally with Dr. Hook.  So many things are theoretically possible but would never happen. This is one of those times, in my opinion

Terri
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15 months ago
On day 7 after the contact I had as mentioned above I was still in a lot of pain and was red inside the urethra so I went to the doctors and he swabbed me for chlamydia, gonorrhoea and herpes all came back negative. Doctor said it won’t pick up herpes if there is no lesion. Which there wasn’t but only redness. I’m still worried that it’s herpes, am I just manifesting this. It’s been really painful. Are herpes obvious when you look in the urethra as doctor barely looked and said it’s not.  I’m scared to be intimate with my wife. 
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Terri Warren, RN, Nurse Practitioner
15 months ago
That's actually not correct.  We can pick up herpes virus in completely asymptomatic people.  Apparently, your physician is unaware of the concept of asymptomatic viral shedding.   Swabbing the urethra and getting a negative result would have been useful to reassure you that this is not herpes.  You just didn't have the right kind of experience to have acquired herpes, as both Dr. Hook and I have said
Terri
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