Remember, you CAN infect other people even when you don't have any blisters or you CAN be infected even if you don't see any blisters on someone else. Herpes can be diagnosed from a smear taken from a lesion by a health care provider. Diagnosis is often based on symptoms alone. The symptoms of herpes are usually most severe during the first outbreak. The blisters often appear in groups, or clusters.
Some people only get one blister.
These lesions rupture on about the 5th day to form wet ulcers that are terribly painful to touch, and can be associated with painful sex, painful urination, pain in the lymph nodes in the groin and terrible pain in area of the blisters. In women, blister can appear on the vulva, around or in the vagina, or anywhere in the genital area. Some people infected with genital herpes will have NO symptoms at all. Treatment Genital herpes cannot be cured. The virus will stay in your body forever.