How come some herpes blisters are more extreme then others?
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at
7:00 am
When i look up herpes on google images, it shows these really gross pictures of people with herpes all over there genitals and/or bodies. I have a cold sore on my lip, which probably means Herpes HSV-1, i think. How would i keep my cold sores from getting really big and spread out like on the google image search and how do their herpes get so extreme(the people on the google image search)?
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Pictures on google do tend to be of the most extreme cases – first ever outbreaks etc and of the few people who have a real problem with herpes because they have it so severely.
I have genital herpes hsv-1, and have never had anything that looked as bad as bad as the MILDEST picture I found on the internet.
My outbreaks, though in a different place, look more like this:
http://www.coldsore.co.nz/images/cold-sore-lip.jpg
probably not even that bad.
Most people I know that get cold sores, it is little more than a dot on the lip – you would need a magnifying glass to see my boyfriend’s! My genital outbreaks are the same.
I have known one or two people who get bad ones though – but they are just the unlucky people, theirs are always bad, doesn’t mean everyone else will get them like that.
If you haven’t had a cold sore that bad before, you aren’t likely to. Those are just pics doctors take of the worst case scenarios of people whose immune systems have a problem dealing with it.
Chances are it wont get any bigger unless you pick at it or mess around with it. If you do that then chances are they can spread. Out breaks are supposed to get less sever over time.
I have genital herpes and in the beginning I had a very bad out break with all the common symptoms plus a bladder infection. There were blisters all over the place down there and it hurt like you wouldn’t believe, I dreaded the thought of going to the bathroom because I never knew what was going to hurt more.
On the second one I had out breaks of little cuts all over the place it was a little less severe then the first but still had all the classic symptoms. It itched and tingled so badly it kept me up at night.
I also have cold sores.
In the beginning I would get what felt like big cut like things in the corners of my mouth that would take for ever to heal. Now I just get the tiniest of a cold sore but I still get some symptoms as it breaks out.
I hardly ever have a genital out break with more then one or two blisters or sores and it’s always a surprise because it’s never the same thing twice and usually in a different area.
Those pics on the web are of the more sever cases and not every one looks like that when they get an out break and every one who has herpes is different. Some are so mild that people with herpes can’t even tell if it’s an out break or not.
I have had both types of herpes for over a year.