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STDs (Expert Forum)
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University of Washington
Seattle - WA
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This forum is limited to questions about STDs other than HIV/AIDS. For questions about HIV prevention, or if you have general questions about safe sex (e.g., condoms, how to protect yourself from HIV and STDs), please visit the HIV Prevention and Safe Sex Forum
Some of the most common types of questions concern the risk of HIV or STD after a particular sexual exposure, and about symptoms that might or might not be due to HIV. If your question is along these lines, please visit the HIV Prevention and Safe Sex Forum.
Doctor's Answer
by H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D., Nov 16, 2006 12:00AM
, Nov 16, 2006 12:00AM
How you "feel" is irrelevant. "Tingling and weird sensations" are not symptoms of herpes. I'm going to repeat something I wrote in response to a similar question earlier today:
"To start, you have fallen into a common trap. Because online sources describe burning pain or tingling as symptoms of herpes, anxious people get the impression that those sympoms along may be signs of herpes. They are not. Tingling and burning are symptoms of herpes ONLY as part of the discomfort people feel when they have actual herpes lesions: blisters, open sores, etc. Sometimes there is brief tingling for 1-2 days (never longer) before an outbreak occurs--the 'prodrome'."
Using your own words, just get over it. Herpes doesn't explain your symptoms, period. Neither does any other STD.
Good luck-- HHH, MD
"To start, you have fallen into a common trap. Because online sources describe burning pain or tingling as symptoms of herpes, anxious people get the impression that those sympoms along may be signs of herpes. They are not. Tingling and burning are symptoms of herpes ONLY as part of the discomfort people feel when they have actual herpes lesions: blisters, open sores, etc. Sometimes there is brief tingling for 1-2 days (never longer) before an outbreak occurs--the 'prodrome'."
Using your own words, just get over it. Herpes doesn't explain your symptoms, period. Neither does any other STD.
Good luck-- HHH, MD
