 [ Symptoms ] my fiance can no longer walk diagnosed with giallam barret incorrectly hospital has no explanation [ Disease ] you could ask your doctor for an antiviral but your risk is fairly low you would not be getting genital herpes anyway   you would be getting hsv1 that causes cold sores and that is much milder than hsv2 the virus that causes genital herpes true you can get hsv2 on the mouth and hsv1 on the genitals but in general hsv1 is much milder and less problematic you probably already have it on your mouth anyway about 80 of the human population have the virus most of the time it causes no problems