Herpes symptoms without sores ? Posted: 06-24-08 09:07am
My girlfriend and I have herpes. She gave
it to me, but she's never had leisures.
She did tell me that after she had sex
with this one guy, she felt very sick and
had pains in her abdomen and vaginal area.
Around the time she infected me she did
bleed from her vagina, thinking it was her
period starting early, but it wasn't so.
It was followed by tiredness,
sluggishness, headaches and pain in her
entire body, especially her back. I've
read that these are all possible symptoms
of herpes, but I've never thought they
were since she never had any sores. We
always thought she was asymptomatic, but
it just occurred to me today to ask this:
Can these symptoms actually be herpes
outbreaks without the classic leisures?
The symptoms you are mentioning
(tiredness, sluggishness, headaches and
pain in her entire body) are general and
common symptoms for many types of
infections. Such general symptoms can
occur during the first (primary) herpes
infection. The following herpes outbreaks
are manifested only with local
skin/mucosal lesions.
Vaginal bleeding is not a sign of herpes
infection, neither for primary one nor for
outbreaks.
Herpes simple infection can be transmitted
even if there are no visible lesions.
