[Question #11816] Hsv exposure?
12 months ago
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Okay.. received unprotected oral and protected intercourse from a massage sex worker.. she had bumps I guess they looked like on her lip.. one on the lower left side of her lip looked like a crater.. but it blend in with the skin.. I couldn’t tell if it was normal anatomy.. then I looked at my lip in the same spot and I have something similar.. again this didn’t look like an external bump it blended it with the skin.. and saw swelling I guess you would call it, or maybe she had full lips only seen this at certain light angles.. on the right side lower corner area but just before she had 3 black specks.. they weren’t scabs or didn’t look like scabs.. can barely notice.. asked her about them.. she took a pic and then said there’s nothing there.. worried about Hsv exposure here from unprotected oral
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Terri Warren, RN, Nurse Practitioner
12 months ago
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OK, I hear that those facial characteristics were worrisome to you. Have you ever in your life had a cold sore on your lip or inside your nose? If yes, then you already have HSV 1, which is the virus that causes cold sores. Normally, that looks like water blisters or ulcerations or scabs. It doesn't sound like that's what you are describing. If you want to, you could do a baseline HSV 1 IgG test and see if you might already have been infected prior to this encounter and if yes, then you wouldn't need to worry about it. How long ago was this encounter?
Terri
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12 months ago
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I just tested negative for hsv1 2 weeks ago.. it was last night.. no it didn’t look like any of those things.. just kind of like swelling blended into the lip skin..
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Terri Warren, RN, Nurse Practitioner
12 months ago
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If no sores were present, this doesn't sound like HSV to me. And for the record, the IgG test for HSV 1 misses 30% of infections, compared to the gold standard herpes western blot. If you develop any sores around your mouth, have them swab tested immediately. If you have no sores present in the 10 days after your contact with the sex worker, then HSV infection if very unlikely
Terri
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