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Does anyone know anything about herpes? I have a blister on my lip. I don't get fever blisters! Ever! I'm scared. #1942958 09/19/07 12:31 PM
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 283 H Healingbychoices Member
Healingbychoices Member H Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 283	I had lots of mouth sores last month. And, now this month i have a breakout on my lip. It looks like tiny blisters grouped together. I went out to a new bar with H dancing. Could someone spit in my water or drink and give me herpes or is it from H's affair 1 and half years ago? Or, could it be fever blister? The breakout last month started day after we went dancing is why i suspected someone passed on their saliva, a bartender or waitress. Am i overreacting? I don't want to have herpes but i need to know. I had testing, so did H last year, nothing came up. Please give advice if possible. Thanks in advance.

Re: Does anyone know anything about herpes? I have a blister on my lip. I don't get fever blisters! Ever! I'm scared. Healingbychoices #1942959 09/19/07 12:43 PM
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 229 S Scott55403 Member
Scott55403 Member S Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 229	HBC: There are two types of Herpes. The type that shows up as lip sores is very common and easily spread. You can get it from a drinking fountain. No need to worry about how you got it, you may never know. Good news is that it is very manageable with OTC medications. See a doctor is you need more info on it.

Re: Does anyone know anything about herpes? I have a blister on my lip. I don't get fever blisters! Ever! I'm scared. Scott55403 #1942960 09/19/07 01:00 PM
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 177 Wisconsin L LTKramer Member
LTKramer Member L Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 177 Wisconsin	It sounds just like herpes. How did you and your husband get tested? The best way is to have your provider break one of the blisters and send it for culture. Their are oral medications that can be taken, but it sounds like you would be better off with the over the counter "Abreva". This is a topical application. The other thing is that you should be able to feel an "aura" prior to the outbreak of the blisters. Most of my patients state that it feels like a "tingling, hypersensitivity". I have never heard of anyone getting it by transmission from objects, but anything is possible. In most cases it is transmitted by direct contact. Hope this helped.

Re: Does anyone know anything about herpes? I have a blister on my lip. I don't get fever blisters! Ever! I'm scared. LTKramer #1942961 09/19/07 01:16 PM
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pomdbd3 Member P Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,719	Cold sores are a variant of herpes. Look up info on cold sores on the net. Abreva works great right at the beginning of an outbreak. Use Zilactin after one. You could have had this virus for a long time and not known it. Could have gotten it from H if he has cold sores. I have cold sores and never gave them to my exww or any girlfriend, but I may have and they haven't shown it. Don't kiss anyone, including your kids (if you have any) since the virus is very easily spread. Don't touch them or pop them either or you will simply spread it to other parts of your mouth. D-Day 28 Feb 06 Plan D (Not by choice) - 24 March 06 DD6 DS4(Twin1) DS4(Twin2) She moved away with the kids April 08. I contested it and got a lot more time with my kids. She's unhappy that I want to stay involved in their lives and don't settle for being an "every other weekend" dad. Never going to happen. Ongoing personal recovery through the help of friends, family, and DC United Soccer!

Re: Does anyone know anything about herpes? I have a blister on my lip. I don't get fever blisters! Ever! I'm scared. pomdbd3 #1942962 09/19/07 02:14 PM
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Healingbychoices Member H Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 283	Thanks to all for posting so quickly. H has had cold sores off and on forever. He gave me his Abreva. I was just thinking i should use something different if this is herpes. ? I read on curezone about Clorafor(believe that's what it's called) and it says it stops breakouts. Since i had sores INside my mouth last month i'm nervous that i may be one who gets breakouts each month. Has anyone tried Clorafor? I really don't want to use medications if possible to help this. I'll get Zilactin too til i figure this out. I use it after the breakout is festered or after it has cleared? I've been drinking coffee like a fiend, and it says that caffeine, stress(aha, i wonder why i'm stressed?haha) and chocolate make these viruses flare up. ? So, now i have a good reason to go off my favorites, huh? Thanks again everyone.

Re: Does anyone know anything about herpes? I have a blister on my lip. I don't get fever blisters! Ever! I'm scared. Scott55403 #1942963 09/19/07 02:17 PM
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Healingbychoices Member H Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 283	Oh my God! I've been drinking from a drinking fountain at the college i'm attending! For a few months now. Why doesn't someone tell the schools so they can remove public fountains? Yikes! I'll definitely tell my kids.

Re: Does anyone know anything about herpes? I have a blister on my lip. I don't get fever blisters! Ever! I'm scared. Healingbychoices #1942964 09/19/07 04:49 PM
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Cymanca Member C Joined: May 2004 Posts: 1,892	Healing, You can not get herpes from a water fountain unless your lips actually come in contact with the metal on the dispenser AND it has live herpes virus on it. You can contract herpes by touching a herpes-contaminated metallic surface and then having your hands come in contact with your mouth,eyes or nose. BTW a precipitating agent for herpes I outbreaks is stress. Such as discovering a spouse having an affair. Divorced: "Never shelter anyone from the realities of their decisions": Noodle You believe easily what you hope for ernestly Infidelity does not kill marriages, the lying does

Re: Does anyone know anything about herpes? I have a blister on my lip. I don't get fever blisters! Ever! I'm scared. Scott55403 #1942965 09/19/07 06:50 PM
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penaltykill Member P Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 716	Quote HBC: There are two types of Herpes. The type that shows up as lip sores is very common and easily spread. You can get it from a drinking fountain. No need to worry about how you got it, you may never know. Good news is that it is very manageable with OTC medications. See a doctor is you need more info on it. By all means see a doctor. But don't tell him/her that you got it from a drinking fountain. Oy. You want to be taken seriously. And you want to prevent its spread, so I think it's a good idea to be aware of how you may have gotten it in the first place. It's quite likely that you got it via a handshake. Or when someone coughed or sneezed, and a droplet entered your mucous membranes, or a small cut. It's possible that you may have had the virus for years and only now are the symptoms making themselves known - due to stress. The virus hides itself in your ganglion where it remains latent until triggered. Protection from all viruses lies in strengthening your immune system. This is how you will be able to prevent future outbreaks. PK

Re: Does anyone know anything about herpes? I have a blister on my lip. I don't get fever blisters! Ever! I'm scared. penaltykill #1942966 09/19/07 07:37 PM
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,306 T Tyk Member
Tyk Member T Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,306	I've unfortunately just had to have crash course in herpes education 101. Cold sores are form of herpes, generally they are herpes simplex 1 and are quite common and can be passed by contact, even from drinking from the same glass. If your husband gets cold sores that's probably the most likely path of transmission, but you'll never know. One good thing is that once the virus is contracted it tends to stay put (they don't know why), so you are now unlikely to have a simplex 1 genital outbreak even if you are exposed through sexual contact. Having simplex 1 does not confer any immunity to simplex 2 however, so be aware of that.

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