A girl I've been seeing for some time just told me after already hav-ing sex with her that she has genital herpes. She told me that she had a minor outbreak 6 months ago (1 sore) and that is when she be-gan taking Valtrex. We used a condom but I went down on her. I've read that the statistics of spreading genital herpes while on Valtrex using a condom is 1% but what are the statistics of me going down on her (on Valtrex) obviously unprotected. Any advice is appreciated. How can I protect myself from genital herpes if we keep having sex? While no prevention method short of abstinence is 100% effective, using a latex condom offers some protection. Your partner should tell you when symptoms flare up, which is when the virus is most contagious. Avoid sex when your partner has symptoms. How can I find out if I've been infected with genital herpes? Go to your doctor and get tested. A doctor may take a sample from what appears to be a genital herpes sore and send it to a lab for test-ing. You can also have a blood test. The blood test looks for antibodies to the virus that the immune system would have made when you were infected. The second type of herpes simplex virus, HSV-2, al-most always infects the genitals, so if antibodies to HSV-2 are de-tected in the blood, you probably have genital herpes. A blood test that shows antibodies to the other type of herpes virus, HSV-1, means you could have genital or oral herpes. That's because oral herpes, typically caused by HSV-1, can be spread to the genitals
dur-ing oral sex.
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