Question:
How long after you think you contracted HSV did you have a noticable Outbreak?

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I'll go first.
After having unprotected sex a few times with the girl that gave me HSV2 I started having the tingle and itch down there but I didn't think anything of it. It wasn't until almost 3 months down the road that I had my first outbreak with blisters. Actually it was just one big blister.

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I was with the guy who gave it to me for 1 1/2 years before I had my first outbreak (he conveniently told me at that point that I 'must have gotten it from him'). My first outbreak was horrible, I had a fever, chills, cramps, you name it. I think I just got unlucky right before then and picked it up, I don't think I harbored it in my body very long. Whenever I get any kind of skin rash (chicken pox, poison ivy, eczema, herpes) I get a really bad case of it so I think as soon as it 'took hold', I broke out.

Answer:
BUMP

Lets hear some more answers. I think this is a very good thread.

Didn't get my first outbreak till about a month after being exposed.

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I had my first outbreak literally a day and a half after exposure!!
It was just one small teeny little red bump. It broke open, and then it hurt like HELL (when I peed.) I KNEW immediately something was wrong....got a culture.Voila Herpes.

THEN, I also had bloodwork done...NO HERPES (the antibodies were not built up yet SO....)

After that...I never had any outbreaks, just some tingling sensations, but that was it. I was almost convinced I didn't have it, that the culture was incorrect. I was in major denial.

My WORST outbreak wasn't until much later, when I was six month pregnant. I guess my hormones made the virus go crazy and I was in so much pain, it made my damn TEETH HURT....(not really, but just to give you an idea of how bad it was.) It was scary.

But yep, initial "outbreak" came almost immediately for me.

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I had my first outbreak literally a day and a half after exposure!!
It was just one small teeny little red bump. It broke open, and then it hurt like HELL (when I peed.) I KNEW immediately something was wrong....got a culture.Voila Herpes.

THEN, I also had bloodwork done...NO HERPES (the antibodies were not built up yet SO....)

After that...I never had any outbreaks, just some tingling sensations, but that was it. I was almost convinced I didn't have it, that the culture was incorrect. I was in major denial.

My WORST outbreak wasn't until much later, when I was six month pregnant. I guess my hormones made the virus go crazy and I was in so much pain, it made my damn TEETH HURT....(not really, but just to give you an idea of how bad it was.) It was scary.

But yep, initial "outbreak" came almost immediately for me. what is tingling? I always hear the word in context with symptoms, but I'm kind of confused? I guess it doesn't matter, but I would like to know. thanks:D

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I had my first actual outbreak about 8 or 10 years after being infected.

I had some weird itching before that but after seeing numerous doctors and asking for help with it none even mentioned herpes or tested for it.

Since my first ob in 2005 I have now had a total of 3 actual ob's. This is not to say I don't have symptoms because I do but they are things like intense headaches, intense sciatic pain and itching and tingling that wake me up at night.

For those of you who wonder what tingling feels like. For me it feels like there is something inside my skin wiggling around and nothing makes it stop. It's like being tickled for hours without relief. I'd love to have a dr. go in and snip that nerve. It happens in one location and which covers about 2 inches total of skin area.

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I can remember feeling a tingling sensation the next morning. I can recall driving that bitch home out into east bumblefuck and having this unusual sensation. About 1 day later the cold sore started. The firt ob was by far the worst, it was 3 weeks until it finally healed.

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I'm not sure when mine was. All I know is 3 or 4 days after I had sex (unprotected) with a guy I'd been with for 3 months I had a bad headache, itching pain, and then lesions. Culture was negative (didn't get to doc in time) blood test positive. The guy told me not to talk to him ever again and how it was my fault and he has not went to get tested. So now ill never know.

8 years is a long time!!! I wonder if that is in rare cases that the virus doesn't show. I wonder if I've had it and my sex just irritated it and if I just never noticed outbreaks??? But I tell you one thing. I've never experienced pain like that. When I was in tears and could barely walk. I wore guys boxers it was so bad.

So my question is....WHEN DID PEOPLE GET TESTED, after realizing something was wrong and did it show in your culture or blood test.