A while ago, I was using a public
restroom. I was about to wipe when I
dropped the toilet paper. I quickly picked
it up and used it. The floor was wet, but
the TP was still completely dry, and did
not come in direct contact with the
bathroom floor. About a week later, I
noticed small red bumps on the top of my
vagina. They were not hard or pus filled,
nor painful, and they disappeared in less
than a day. A couple months later, the
same thing happened.
More recently, I developed what looked and
felt like a rash just inside the bottom
opening of my vagina. I applied cortisone
cream to it and it responded nicely.
Even so, my question is this: Could I have
contracted genital herpes from using that
toilet paper, or is it more likely these
are occurrences unrelated to that event?
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YettieGal
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Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Posts: 48 Location: Hell, MI
Posted: 02-27-08 12:13pm
Hello there
No... you can only get herpes if it is a
skin-to-skin contact. Unless you had
unprotected sex-- even then, everyone is
still at risk in contracting the virus.
Hope this helps
Yettie
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Rosie H
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Posted: 02-27-08 12:23pm
No you dont have herpes. Mainly because
the decription doesnt match a herpes sore.
As for the rash - you could have just been
irritated.
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Free to Be
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 2
Posted: 02-29-08 19:59pm
So, herpes isn't spread through bodily
fluids? I heard that it is, or that it can
be, at least.
Also, with the rash, I experienced a
discharge similar to what I've read is a
possible symptom of herpes. I had soreness
in my abdominal area, as well.
I don't know if those symptoms make it any
more likely that this is herpes.
Hopefully, that's not the case, and I can
put my mind at ease.
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YettieGal
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Posts: 48 Location: Hell, MI
Posted: 03-06-08 13:38pm
Free to Be
wrote:
So, herpes isn't spread
through bodily fluids? I heard that it is,
or that it can be, at least.
Also, with the rash, I experienced a
discharge similar to what I've read is a
possible symptom of herpes. I had soreness
in my abdominal area, as well.
I don't know if those symptoms make it any
more likely that this is herpes.
Hopefully, that's not the case, and I can
put my mind at
ease.
I would go to the doctor to ensure it
isn't something-- just to put your mind at
ease. There are urgent cares &
clinics that are cheaper to go to rather
than a gyno office (that's if you don't
have insurance.) You could have a
bacterial infection, yeast infection, a
different type of std- but it doesn't
sound like herpes to me (since I have it.)
Hope this helps.
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Rosie H
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 1082 Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
Thanks: 13
Thanked:4
Posted: 03-25-08 16:23pm
herpes is passed on by skin to skin
contact not by bodily fluids. Since bodily
fluids touch your skin they could help
trasmit the viris. But skin to skin is the
way. Thats why there is still a chance to
pass it even with a condom. However its
only 1 percent chance
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