Good luck with the new guy! Always use condoms during vaginal and oral sex and continue taking your meds even if you don麓t have outbreaks. I don麓t think shedding can be prevented, that麓s why Herpes is so easy to spread especially when there are no symptoms but you continue shedding the virus in your pubic area. 1st, there are over 80 known varieties of herpes, and countless unknown, so it is a big club.

It is good that you haven't had an outbreak, now to keep it that way, daily, take 1 neem bark or leaf capsule, 1 turmeric capsule and 1 milk thistle. With in 3 months, most people will have shed the virus. Neem works on the lipid coating of the virus and that keeps it from being able to reproduce. :-) You are lucky that you don't have frequent outbreaks. I am in the same situation. I have had the disease for of 15 years. I have never passed it on to any one as far as I know. I am always careful. My doctor told me that since my outbreaks as so infrequent it is not worth taking a daily does of medicine. They say that is does cut down on the spread by taking the med. I prefer not to take medicine unless absolutely necessary. Good luck I have HSV2. I do not know exactly how i contracted but I think i got it from my ex. When i spoke to him about it, he said he got it from me because it was the first time after dating with me that he got sores. I never had HSV1 and when we were dating, he had HSV1 outbreak. He also had several gfs before me. I only had one before him and never experienced such pain and sore until i had unprotected sex with my ex. It was so painful and itchy. First, i didn't know. I had no knowledge about HSV 1 or 2 or zoster or anything like that. I shaved hair once and i had a cut because of it and i thought it was the cut wound. But really painful and when the blisters broke, it was so painful that i couldn't walk normally. after the primary infection, it didn't come back for several months so that i wasn't paying much attention to know what that was. but when it recurrent, i also thought it was just nothing. My college speech classmate did informative speech about Herpes Simplex virus 1 and 2 and that's when i started getting attention on myself of this. When it outbroke, i went to the doctor and she said "no, it's not herpes because the blisters were broken and only open wound left there." i was worried but after she said no, i kind of feel relieving. In 2004, i had an outbreak and i was in Michigan at that time. I wanted to make sure again whether it is Genital Herpes or not, so, the doctor checked it again and he said yes, it is herpes but if you want to make sure, get tested. So, i had blood tests and confirmed i have both HSV1 and 2 but 1 never appears until now.