I am still learning all about this Herpes thing having been diagnosed with hsv2 in April.

It seems to me many people who have herpes have actual lesions or cold sore like sores, or big blisters?

So perhaps one tiny pimple isn't a usual herpes outbreak?

One tiny pimple is all I have now. And maybe a second smaller one.

I have a friend now who has had herpes she says for 20 years. Her outbreaks are like rubbed raw places which crack and burn inside her labia, she describes.

Just trying to figure out if herpes makes its appearance in various forms (i.e. pimples, blisters, lesions, cold sore like, or cracking inside labia?), rather than always one kind.

thanks!

They can range from things that look like ingrown hairs, pimples, raw areas like your friend has, lesions which look like cuts, or even just some irritated or itchy spots as well as no symptoms at all.

I think the thing to remember about herpes is that it comes and goes, so anything that lasts for longer than a week is probably something else.