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A 18-year-old female asked:

I had unprotected sex but i also did oral, i have red itchy bumps on my vagina but if it was herpes wouldn't i see it on my mouth too?

1 doctor answer1 doctor weighed in
Dr. Robert Shapiro
Specializes in Emergency Medicine
Not necessarily: Herpes usually causes blistering, and the most accurate way to test for this would be for a doctor to sterilely send a sample of the blister fluid itself to a lab for testing. This is a much more reliable test than blood test for Herpes.
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