Hello,
A little back ground story: I was robbed and assaulted with a pistol almost three years ago next month. They split my lip wide open, up the left side of my mouth towards the outter part of my nose, broke my jaw in two places, and I had to get 20+ stitches on the inside and outside of my lip. The doc. did an awesome job but my lip was very messed up, you could see my gums and teeth all the way through. Everything healed fine, but I still have a a lot of scar tissue and hard lumps on the top and bottom of the left side of my mouth. I tend to bite / chew on my lip to try and work it down. Doesn't really work, more of a bad habit now.

My concern:
I shared a drink a few months back with a friend that I did not know at the time had genital herpes. I am not sure if she had oral herpes as well, but now I am just assuming she does because the things I have found about her. I am somewhat of a hypochondriac, but I have now noticed really small white bumps along the same portion of my lip that I had to get surgery on. These might have been there before, and I have found some info on the web about collagen working its way out of a scar? Is this indeed scar tissue making its way out of my lip? Or do I need to get myself checked for herpes? I am a nervous wreck. I would be extremely upset if I recieve something as serious as herpes just because I finish some ones beer for them.