Thanks for your detailed question about herpes. As you told, you might be having some urinary tract infection and the symptoms you have told about, makes it clear and valid. But later you were done with a test for HSV type 2 infection which came out with a positive result. It need not mean that you have got an outbreak of the disease. It is because, you haven’t got any visible herpes eruptions or cold sores or fever blisters in your genital areas. So you need not worry about the infection till you get an outbreak. To ease out, let me inform you that in almost 80 % of cases, herpes infection stays asymptomatic. But even at the dormant stage, an infected person can cause infection to other people who come in sexual contact with them. HSV is one of the most common type of sexually transmitted infection and millions of people are getting infected year after year. It has become one of the major sexual health concern since its outbreak. Management of the disease is difficult and depends on immunity power of the infected person. Symptoms are seen to disappear in a matter of 1-2 months in healthy people, while it stay there for years in some others with feeble immunity. Touching of saliva or skin to skin contact with cold sores or blisters can cause transmission of infection. Usually this infection is treated symptomatically using antiviral medicines. However treatment for cold sore or herpes is not possible to eradicate the infection entirely and once infected, it will stay with the human body for a lifetime. Hope my answer helps. Take care.