Yes, that's very common..

In fact, most infected people don't even know they have it since they don't have any symptoms. Some of the statistics indicate that it's as high as 80 or 90 percent.

Honestly, though, a lot of the people have what is called sub-clinical symptoms, meaning that there's something going on, but they don't realize it's herpes and don't do anything about it or get it tested.

You may ask where the statistics come from if they don't know to get tested. It's from the CDCs NHANES studies where they analyze blood samples from an anonymous cross section of the population. They can then compare to the statistics for diagnosed cases.

A number of asymptomatic people, like you, only find out when a partner is infected and has symptoms themselves. Then the person gets tested and diagnosed. Herpes is a sneaky little bug.

Let me know if I can help further..