Question: Hello,

My husband made blood tests for herpes. It came positive for herpes 1 and negative for herpes 2. He repeated the same tests just to make sure later (like three months after) and it came back the same result.

About three days ago he developed some mild small red pimples above penis, when we searched the internet of how herpes looks like, it didn't look the same, so we thought it's just a rash.

By coincidence he went to the doctor with me as I was having an appointment for another problem, and he showed the doctor the tiny pimples, and the doctor said it looks like herpes. My husband told him he had herpes 1, and the doctor said it can go to his genitals through oral sex.

Well first my husband always had herpes 1 since he was a kid and if it appears every like three years it appears on his mouth, is it possible that he infected himself by touching his lips and transferring the virus to the genitals ?

Second I don't have herpes 1, so how come I give it to him through oral sex, and even if I have it and I don't know it, he already has it in the mouth, the virus settled in his mouth.

Third, and this is really important cause we are going in loops me and him, is that, since he tested negative for herpes 2 through a blood antibody test, done twice, three months apart, does that GUARANTEE that he does NOT have herpes 2 ?

If it was the case that he only have herpes 1, did he infect himself in the genitals ? and I am always scared that he spit on me, cause sometimes when he speak he spit by accident on my eye and I always freak out and wash my eye, can herpes 1 infect the eye through a spit from someone whether is is active or non-active in the virus

After what the doctor said, our relationship is affected, I don't want to give him oral sex, since I want these pimples to be cleared first, and I don't know what is the use of herpes blood test s if there is still doubt he has 1 or 2, please help, and how can I prevent transmission :(

I'm scared

Thanks doctor, he is not around me right now, but I will ask him to provide a picture when he comes back like in an hour.

But if he tested negative for herpes 2 blood test, it means, he for sure doesn't have it ?

also how would I manage, cause he always speaks next to my face an can from time to time have a tiny spit fly into my eye, does a lot of people get infected through such route ?

thanks

sorry forgot also to write, no I didn't test for herpes.

Also he had herpes 1 since he was a kid, is it possible that a person who has hepres 1 always in the mouth, be reinfected in genitals ?

thanks