My ex has hsv1 & has breakouts from time to time. i did not know this until after being intimate with him. now, ive been showing symptoms of it & was diagnosed with hsv1. if they dont test for hsv1 without symptoms, how do you know when you got it?

Recurrent herpes: Is your ex-partner's herpes oral or genital? What about you? Most people with HSV1 don't know it and the HSV blood tests are not perfect, with potentially misleading results; they miss a third of HSV1 infections. Fortunately, most HSV1 caouse only infrequent recurrent outbreaks, especially genital. 40% of people with new genital HSV1 never have it again, most others less than once a year.