About a week ago, I was kissing a girl that I had met a week earlier
on the train. The second I kissed her deeply, I felt an unusual
burning on my tongue. All we did was kiss, no more. At first I thought
it was just a reaction to her having a smoke beforehand, but the
morning after our first kiss I woke up with the burning still there. I
looked carefully in the mirror for cold sores, or something more
visible, but all I could see where tiny tiny slightly whitish bumps.
Feeling my tongue, it felt a little bit more bumpy as well. For the
time that followed, I didn't get any cold sores on my lips, tongue or
whatnot. But after getting some saliva near my genitals, i did notice
a few little tiny bumps down there too, but those bumps where
non-painful and may have always been there.

Incidentally, these bumps are barely visible, you've almost got to
search to see them. They haven't occured in clusters either, but all
over the place, fairly evenly spread out.

So a few days later I was prompted to go to the doctor to get looked
at. The doctor looked at my mouth and tongue with a light-magnifier,
and told me what i already knew. That if i had ever had a cold sore
before, then i had HSV-1, and that i shouldn't worry about this.
Unfortunately the doc didn't tell me what I _did_ have, which has
brought me here.

I haven't had any swollen lymph glands, but i have felt unusually hot
recently (at times), and been somewhat spaced out (this could be due
to midterms, bad sleep, etc).

It strikes me as uncharacteristic of herpes to not give me swollen
glands, and to have reacted almost instantly on contact. It also
strikes me as odd that i have gotten tiny blisters, but still a week
after no cold sores. The burning feeling in my tongue is still here,
but its slowly dissipating and the blisters are fading.

Does this sound like herp? Should I just continue my life as usual? Do
I wait a few years for my immune system to take care of the virus and
then resume having a healthy dating/sex life, or is that no longer
ever a possibility without spreading the virus to my partner
indefinately? Also, if I have already had a cold sore in my youth, and
therefore already had HSV-1, could this be an HSV-2 infection in the
mouth? (I thought this was a rare occurance?) and if not, then could
it be a "double dose" of HSV-1, or maybe it could be some kind of
allergic reaction?

Please help! this is really driving me mental, and I don't know how to
cope.

-C